How to BackUp and Restore Termux data Plugins and Packages

Hello Guys, hope you all enjoy Termux as we can use it for many purposes, but while using some tools we encounter problems and bugs, and due to it we have only option of clearing app data of termux. 

And due to that, we lose all the tools , plugins and packages that we have installed in termux.

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To overcome this problem,today I tell you a trick which help you to backup all your Termux data and tools in your phone internal storage and you can restore it anytime.

It is also recommended to take back up regularly to remove any kind of error. And before uninstalling or erasing data of Termux you must take backup of it.

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Need of Backup

We need to backup Termux because:

• Make Termux bug free
• To not loose Termux tool
• To not loose packages
• Protect data from accidental uninstall
• Backup during changing source
• And many others reasons

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It is highly recommended to understand what commands listed here do before copy-pasting them.

Misunderstanding the purpose of each step may irrecoverably damage your data, if that happened to you - do not complain so go step by step.

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Backing up

In this example, a backup of both home and sysroot will be shown. The resulting archive will be stored on your shared storage /sdcard and compressed with gzip

Step 1. Ensure that storage permission is granted:

termux-setup-storage

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Step 2. Go to Termux base directory:

cd /data/data/com.termux/files 

Step 3. Backing up files:

tar -zcf /sdcard/termux-backup.tar.gz home usr

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Backup should be finished without any error. There shouldn't be any permission denials unless the user abused root permissions. Warnings about sockets are okay.

Warning: never store your backups in Termux private directories. Their paths may look like:

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/data/data/com.termux - private Termux directory on internal storage
/sdcard/Android/data/com.termux - private Termux directory on shared storage
/storage/XXXX-XXXX/Android/data/com.termux - private Termux directory on external storage, XXXX-XXXX is the UUID of your micro-sd card.
${HOME}/storage/external-1 - alias for Termux private directory on your micro-sd.

Once you clear Termux data from settings, these directories are erased too.

Restoring

Here will be assumed that you have backed up both home and usr directory into same archive. Please note that all files would be overwritten during the process.

Step 1. Ensure that storage permission is granted:

termux-setup-storage

Step 2. Go to Termux base directory:

cd /data/data/com.termux/files

Step 3. Extract home and usr with overwriting everything and deleting stale files:

tar -zxf /sdcard/termux-backup.tar.gz --recursive-unlink --preserve-permissions

Now close Termux with the exit button from notification or typing exit and press enter and open it again.

Conclusion

Making backup of Termux is very very important in removing laging problems of Termux and make it bug free.

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