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  • Posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion on 7-Zip

    Hi Igor. It's a file format used by Android developers, hobbyists, custom ROM users, computer forensics, security researches, reverse engineers etc. If you enable USB debugging on your Android phone you can use adb backup on the command line to dump the applications and their data to your computer. The dump is in this .ab format. Users can restore this data after installing a different operating system. It can also be used to extract application keys and settings, it often contains the application's...

  • Created ticket #1419 on 7-Zip

    Add support for Android ADB backup (.ab)

  • Posted a comment on discussion Open Discussion on 7-Zip

    It should be pretty easy to support Android backups, they're a tgz with a different header and without the gzip CRC32 on the end of the file: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18533567/how-to-extract-or-unpack-an-ab-file-android-backup-file Open backup.ab with an HexEditor, and replace the first 24 Bytes (0x18) with 1F 8B 08 00 00 00 00 00 and save as backup.tar.gz . It can then be opened with WinRAR or any other extractor tool Please can you add support for this?

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