Re: [android-developers] Re: Best Application Data Backup solution?

2012-03-08 Thread gc
Thank you for the reply but the backups I have would consist of anywhere from a few 100 KB to several MB in size and Google backup has limitations (it's mostly geared towards saving off settings and preferences not custom data) at least from what I've read. Is this information incorrect? On

Re: [android-developers] Re: Best Application Data Backup solution?

2012-03-08 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
That's my impression too, and I ended up not using it because of its policy and unpredictable availability on actual devices (given manufacturer specific firmware variations), but perhaps it's worth a look just because it's (mostly) already there. Other that that, take a look at various cloud

Re: [android-developers] Re: Best Application Data Backup solution?

2012-03-08 Thread Mark Murphy
2012/3/8 Kostya Vasilyev kmans...@gmail.com: Other that that, take a look at various cloud computing platforms, their terms of service and pricing. Or roll your own web server if you feel confident enough. In most cases, IMHO, it's not the developer's data. It's the user's data. Hence, the

Re: [android-developers] Re: Best Application Data Backup solution?

2012-03-08 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
On 03/08/2012 10:23 PM, Mark Murphy wrote: In most cases, IMHO, it's not the developer's data. It's the user's data. Agreed. Hence, the backup should be made to something the user controls, such as: -- external storage -- DropBox account (via API or Android client) -- email (via

[android-developers] Re: Best Application Data Backup solution?

2012-03-08 Thread gc
Thank you for all the input. The application can and does currently back up to the SD Card at the user's discretion(I've also incorporated S/FTP if they want to send it to their own server) but I was looking for something off their device in an automated fashion if they would require it..it's

[android-developers] Re: Best Application Data Backup solution?

2012-03-07 Thread gcstang
Does no one perform these types of backups or am I asking the wrong question? On Jan 27, 7:09 am, gcstang gcst...@gmail.com wrote: I know there are solutions such as : Amazon S3 Google Storage Sending data to my own server etc... What I'm wondering is what is the implementations that have

Re: [android-developers] Re: Best Application Data Backup solution?

2012-03-07 Thread Kostya Vasilyev
FWIW, there is a data backup solution built into Android: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/backup.html On 03/07/2012 04:51 PM, gcstang wrote: Does no one perform these types of backups or am I asking the wrong question? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to

[android-developers] Re: Best Application Data Backup solution?

2012-01-27 Thread gcstang
I know there are solutions such as : Amazon S3 Google Storage Sending data to my own server etc... What I'm wondering is what is the implementations that have been tried and are working for others? On Jan 25, 7:09 am, gcstang gcst...@gmail.com wrote: What is thebestsolution to integratebackup,