android backup utility modelled after tar repo: git@github.com:NathanielLLally/AndroidBackup.git the motivation to this project stemmed from the evil that is motorola's moto-x tyranny in their bootlocker and filesystem security I simply love games that get ported to android and maintain the same save game format one can then easily transfer their progress between devices this utility makes that simple there is a java utility named the Android Backup Extractor which can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/adbextractor/ and another java tool here: https://github.com/nelenkov/android-backup-extractor however, despising graphical applications and deriving enjoyment from perl programming as i do, you now have abk (apache people took 'ab' with the benchmarking tool, and mr Elenkov's tool is 'abe') abk [op] file [dir] -t list table of contents -c create android backup named file from dir -x extract -v and list toc for those not yet aquainted with this android afterthought and wonderfully clandestine way of transferring private application files, see the following sample windows session: NOTE: obtaining and setting up android developer bridge (adb) is out of scope yet can be known from the listed references below 1: obtain the program's namespace adb shell pm list packages | find /I "baldur" 2: create a backup (see xda-devs article below for more info) adb backup -f bgeesave.ab com.beamdog.baldursgateenhancededition 3: extract abk -xv bgeesave.ab ... 4: create a new ab file from filesystem abk -c newsave.ab apps/ 5: restore the backup adb restore newsave.ab further reading: http://nelenkov.blogspot.jp/2012/06/unpacking-android-backups.html http://blog.shvetsov.com/2013/02/access-android-app-data-without-root.html http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2011811