Backup is not a backup

I must admit that if one is coming from Android, it is understandable. There you have your account and if you move to a new device, most of the Apps are re-installed automagically.

Of course, everything is stored in the Google cloud there, whether you like it or not. If one does not care about his privacy, it's nice and easy to handle.

I lost some non-important data but I've had use a few hours to find out what is lost and how to get them back again. I thought I'd done backups which would handle that.

I read https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/201804906-How-do-I-make-a-backup-and-restore-it- but didn't properly understand that it's not actually a backup of the whole device or all user settings.

What the link above describes is instructions how to take backups of a few things which seem to include People, Messages and Browser apps. It apparently does not -- maybe even by design -- include Settings, Email, Notes, Calendar, Gallery, Media, Documents, Clock, Calculator, Maps, Terminal and non-jolla apps like all Android things, and anything else stored by user in /home/nemo.

@stezz, Maybe a start would be to really describe what backup is really backing up and what not, especially since Jolla the company already know this.

Then I would expect that technical users are given a workaround like use command 'tar -zxvf /media/sdcard/*/jolla_home.tar.gz /home/nemo' to do real backups of all user data with possible notes on SW release and app incompatibilities etc if SW updates were not done.

And I'm not coming from Android and I don't store stuff in the clouds. I come from GNU/Linux and will stay there.

@mcfrisk Are you talking about documentation or about Backup UI? Backup UI clearly shows what data is backed up, also it provide you a way to select only some of items. It does not show Settings, Calendar, Documents now. Also this is not by design: it is possible to add new backup units, they can be easily provided by any application if application knows how to export/import its own data. Btw, Notes should be backed up.

To move backup data to SD card you can do it from the Backup UI pulley menu. Currently backups are stored in the internal flash memory but there is a feature in plans to allow to save it directly to SD card it card is available.