For whatever reason, you’ve had to reset your Android device to factory defaults. You don’t want to go through the process of re-installing and configuring all of those apps manually, so what do you do? Fortunately, the Android developers have made it pretty easy to restore that device from a backup.
This, of course, does come with a caveat. As of now, Google only retains a single backup of your device, which means you’re only able to restore to that point in time (most likely the last time you used the device). If Google made it possible for users to download their backups, one could download a backup at a point in time when the device was exactly how you wanted it, and when something goes wrong you could delete the most recent backup, upload the working backup, and restore from the newly uploaded backup. Unfortunately, that’s not an option. Are you listening, Google? This means you must work from within the limited constraints of the Android backup and restore system.
But how do you do this? Let me show you.
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