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by yjftsjthsd-h 1682 days ago
For those who haven't encountered it yet, titanium backup (per-app) and TWRP (full partitions) are the gold standard... Assuming you control your phone. I'm not aware of any solution if you don't have root or an unlocked bootloader; AFAIK Google's official solution is sync to Drive (or ... Google One, now? If that's different?), but last I checked support was spotty, and of course that requires internet.
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I have found a combination of TWRP + OAndBackupX to be perfect, stores absolutely everything, and it allows you to atomically restore individual apps+data id you need to.

Rooted of course. AFAIK there isn't any way to consistently and fully backup anything more than userdata and some google stuff if you are stock.

Titanium Backup alongside versioned backups to my computer via Syncthing has worked well for me.
I have found titanium backup to work well however in my experience it does not restore device accounts with passwords, while TWRP does.
The catch with Titanium Backup is that it requires root access.
Yes I see that will be a sticking point