No, I'm requesting for Wireguard Android app to stop intentionally disallowing 
backups:
https://git.zx2c4.com/wireguard-android/tree/ui/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml?id=713947e432126e0e29dcf497960e5fa0f6301e2b#n36

Sincerely, Nazar Mokrynskyi
github.com/nazar-pc

08.02.23 15:34, John Sahhar пише:
> I missed the intro to this thread, but if I'm understanding correctly
> you need a safe way to back up your wg keys/configs? I wrote a bash
> script a few years ago which I use for that, perhaps a starting place
> for what you're trying to accomplish.
>
> https://github.com/ok-john/wireguard-tools/tree/master/contrib/key-grid
> https://syscall.network/releases/key-grid.svg
>
> --
> Regards,
> John Sahhar
> Cryptographer @ Entropy
>
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 12:44 PM Nazar Mokrynskyi <na...@mokrynskyi.com> wrote:
>> I know there is an export feature in the app and I used it successfully, but 
>> it doesn't make much sense to me to have that and disable OS backups at the 
>> same time.
>> There are use cases for one-off copying of things for which exporting as zip 
>> is great, but there are also others.
>>
>> I don't want to have set a reminder and regularly go though every single app 
>> manually, use their flavor of backup feature (that doesn't necessarily store 
>> everything BTW, including in Wireguard), then collect the files somehow, 
>> encrypt them and send to the destination.
>>
>> What I want is automation: configure the tool (SeedVault in my case) to 
>> create backups of all apps every day and store them in encrypted form on my 
>> private Nextcloud instance with ability to restore backups easily later on.
>> The issue is that some apps like Wireguard prevent me from enjoying that 
>> workflow fully and right now I don't see why would it be beneficial for 
>> Wireguard to intentionally prevent that.
>>
>> With that context I hope it is clearer why I'd appreciate for current design 
>> decision around that to be re-evaluated.
>>
>> Sincerely, Nazar Mokrynskyi
>> github.com/nazar-pc
>>
>> 08.02.23 04:19, David Cowden пише:
>>> On Android 12+ you can configure which files are backed up (among other 
>>> things) at runtime using the BackupAgent API 
>>> https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/autobackup. Would you be 
>>> opposed to this being a configurable option that defaults to off?
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> ------- Original Message -------
>>> On Tuesday, February 7th, 2023 at 7:03 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld 
>>> <ja...@zx2c4.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I think I'd prefer to still keep this a bit more locked down. There is
>>>> the "export tunnels as zip" feature (which requires an explicit
>>>> authentication step each time), which you can use for backup/restore.
>>>>
>>>> Jason

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