# Android ADB backup

**URL:** <https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/t/android-adb-backup/395>\
**Category:** Autopsy Help\
**Created:** [December 24, 2019, 1:24am UTC](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/t/android-adb-backup/395 "2019-12-24T01:24:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Information\_Warfare](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/sleuthkit.discourse.group/information_warfare/32/211_2.png) [@Information\_Warfare](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/u/Information_Warfare)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2019, 1:24am UTC](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/t/android-adb-backup/395/1 "2019-12-24T01:24:20Z")

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How can Autopsy pull in an Android ADB backup file correctly?

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**Post date:** [December 28, 2019, 1:56am UTC](https://sleuthkit.discourse.group/t/android-adb-backup/395/2 "2019-12-28T01:56:53Z")

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Hello.

Have you looked at android-backup-extractor at all? I’ve used the all-in-one jar (abe.jar) before to unpack a Android Backup to a .tar and then extract the tar and feed it to Autopsy. That was a very long time ago so it may not be the best way to do it now.

[https://github.com/nelenkov/android-backup-extractor](https://github.com/nelenkov/android-backup-extractor)

Derrick