Backup/Restore Issues

[BeeGrech]

As documented in issues many times, If this critical feature doesn't work, the app is dead. Losing access to the app can mean catastrophic loss of login access. The restore/backup features need to be resolved before anyone should use this app.
this is a critical failure and no release with full functionality for backup restore should be pushed.

[vdbhb59]

See if this works or helps you out:
#411 (comment)

[scott2hot]

I can confirm that I just tried to backup to another device and only a portion of my tokens were imported (11). Looks like the backup file is truncated and anything over this value are gone. All the tokens are functional on my main device. This is not good. Can anybody else try the backup and restore if they have a second device to confirm? Note that I am running v2.0.4 (45).

[alexbakker]

I've written a bit about what's going on here in case you're interested: #283 (comment). Various issues can occur depending on the version of Android, the version of FreeOTP and other factors.

[W48B1T]

I'll leave it here in case anybody stumbles across the backup/restore problems with FreeOTP: You can import the "externalBackup.xml" (the serialized java map containing json) in the Stratum Authenticator (https://github.com/stratumauth/app). From there on you can migrate / restore to where ever you like, since you can actually view your TOTP keys / URIs. I really don't get why problems like this don't get addressed. It cost me multiple hours to find an implementation which can handle this "backup"-"xml".