Full Phone Backup - Ignore Android/ directory

[harryjph]

Hi there!

I am trying to make a backup of my entire phone's file storage to a remote.

I am doing this by creating a task that syncs the path /storage/emulated/0 to the remote, but this causes lots of failed to open directory "Android/data": open /storage/emulated/0/Android/data: permission denied errors.

This is expected due to newer Android version restrictions, but I would like to ignore these errors and complete the job successfully - at the moment, rclone won't remove the files on the remote due to the failure.

Is there some way to either add an --exclude flag to the rclone command to prevent it from trying to transfer those files or adding a filter to the "Internal shared storage" remote to prevent this from happening?

[newhinton]

This is beeing tracked in #152 and #79, but no progress has been made there since the ui is not trivially to implement.

Adding an "internal shared storage"-filter might be an idea.

If you are willing to compile the app yourself, you can always "hardcode" those flags into the sync. I can help you with that if required. To keep it tidy, i would like to ask you to open a new discussion "how to hardcode flags", so that this can stay closed. Thanks!