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0 Backup is backup solution for your Android device, allowing you to fully backup your tertiary storace (either external SD card or internal storage) to your own computer.

Think about it: your contacts and calendar are probably synchronized to your Gmail account, your mail corporate server or your MS Exchange corporate server, but what's about the data in your SD card? The documents you have created with Documents To Go, Quick Office or any other office suite; the passwords you keep within KeePassDroid; the photographs and videos of your family; the quick notes you take with your favorite notes editor; all of them and many others live in your SD card, so most of your data lives in your SD card. Back it up!

Other backup solutions say to make a backup of your phone, but if such backup is kept only on the SD card of your phone, it is still in risk of being lost or stolen. 0 Backup can help you back up also such data form the SD card to your own computer.

Other backup solutions store the backup on online storage servers, usually subject to a monthly fee. 0 Backup does the backup to your own computer, so no extra or hidden fees apply.

0 Backup is available in two flavours:

• Silver, supported by advertising.
• Gold, available for only 1.5€.

0 Backup is available on Google Play:

Features:

• Backup your SD to a shared folder in your computer whenever you want.
• Uses SMB/CIFS (also known as Windows Shared Folders). No need to install specific software in your computer.
• Incremental backup, so save time.
• Exclusion list, to avoid wasting time and space in the computer with expendable data (music, emulator ROMs...)
• Schedulable automatic backup, to set-and-forget it (Gold only).
• Automatic turn WiFi on and off for scheduled backup (Gold only).
• Configurable to use only WiFi, to avoid wasting your expensive mobile data plan.
• Configurable to use only your own WiFi network, to skip backup when traveling or so (Gold only).
• Configurable to stop backup when not charging, to avoid wasting battery.
• Configurable to try to continue on errors.
• Configurable to remove previously backed-up item on server that has been removed on your SD card.
• No need for root.

Known errors:

• In some devices, the way "Plugged only" toggle is handled may report fake "unplugged" reports, so the scheduled backup will be skipped. A software workaround is coded into 0 Backup, but it is not 100% accurate. If this is your case, you will have to unckeck the "Plugged only" toggle.
• From Android 2.2 (Froyo) on, the folder .android_secure contains the applications that have been moved to the SD card. However, to avoid piracy, Android hides the content of such folder of the SD card when shown to the applications (including 0 Backup). That means that such folder cannot be backup'd by 0 Backup. Do not worry: this folder just contains the applications, not the data nor the configurations, so you just can reinstall them if needed. You may manually backup it, but 0 Backup will not be able to do it. Do not blame us, blame Google or piracy.
• Plain-text password in the SMB share are not supported.
• Some users report that setting USB debugging on causes "access denied" in some devices.
• Some characters in the password (such as @ and other strange characters) are known to cause problems authenticating to the server.

• The Android management of services changes with every version. In modern versions (detected from KitKat on) modifying the settings takes some time to be refreshed in the service, so it cannot make the backup. You can just wait until it is refreshed... but probably you want to test that your settings are ok, so you want to DO IT NOW! The workaround is to use the following steps:

• Configure it through the application settings.

• Go back to the home screen and kill 0 backup. You can do it from the Android application manager (Android settings --> Applications --> 0 Backup --> Force stop) or just rebooting the device.
• Try again.

The following documentation is available:

• Setting up your [Windows XP] computer.
• Setting up your [Windows Vista] computer.
• Setting up your [Windows 7] computer.
• Setting up your [Ubuntu] computer.
• [0 Backup reference] guide.