Backup configuration testing

By now, you have created a backup configuration and you might (should) test it and make sure that your app saves the data, restores it, and works without any issues.

Setting backup logs

Before you test your app's configuration, you might want to enable logging; this is done via adb, where you set the parser log property to VERBOSE:

$ adb shell setprop log.tag.BackupXmlParserLogging VERBOSE

Testing the backup feature can be split into two parts:

• Testing the backup phase
• Testing the restore phase

Testing the backup phase

The backup can be run manually, but first, you must run the Backup Manager via the adb command:

$ adb shell bmgr run

After the Backup Manager is up and running, we can trigger the backup phase via adb and run our app's package name as the <PACKAGE.NAME> parameter:

$ adb shell bmgr fullbackup <PACKAGE.NAME>

Testing the restore phase

We executed the backup phase and all went well. Now, we want to test the restore phase and verify that...