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by lopkeny12ko 552 days ago
> the inability to make full backups

Says who? I have been using this for years:

    adb backup -f backup.ab -apk -noshared -all -system
2 comments

The issue is that Android lets app developers set <application android:allowBackup="false">, and doesn't give the owner a way to override that. Your command will just skip any such apps.
Apps can stop you from doing it, and many will, then it fails silently. It's also a deprecated feature. When I mean a full backup, I mean a bit for bit identical copy, not what the app developers think you should be able to access.