It's now possible to ask that the backup manager wipe the saved data for a given
application from the backing store. LocalTransport implements this now but the
Google backend does not yet. When the data is wiped, the on-device backup state
is also wiped to ensure that the next backup pushes all necessary data.
Bmgr has not yet been modified to actually call into this method, but it will
be soon.
This changes the backup service to use the settings provider instead
of system properties, correspondingly making it off by default and
allowing specific devices to define the transport. Also tweaks
the permission checks to use the permission symbol instead of raw
strings.
This requires some corresponding changes in the vendor projects.
We now schedule a periodic check of pending backups; if any apps have requested
a backup since the last check, we perform all of the pending backups. The
periodic backup scheduling matches the enable/disable state of the backup
manager; while backups are disabled entirely there are no periodic wakeups.
The period is set here to one hour. If an external caller (transport, the
'bmgr' command line tool, etc) requests an immediate backup pass, that is
performed and then the periodic backup check is rescheduled using that pass as
the starting point of a new interval.
Backup & restore is still enabled by default, but with the expectation that it
will be enabled during the course of the Setup Wizard or some other privileged
entity that has notified the user about the ramifications. While disabled,
data-changed notices will still be collected, but no backup pass will be
scheduled. When the backup manager is later enabled, any pending data-changed
notices will then be processed and the apps invoked for backup.
This change retools the transport selection mechanism a fair bit. Transports
are now specified by name rather than by numeric ID, and the name of the
currently selected transport is stored in a persistent system property under the
name "persist.service.bkup.trans".
The name -> IBackupTransport translation is now handled by maintaining a map
from the names to the live IBackupTransport objects that correspond. The Google
transport service observer now registers and unregisters the transport as the
service goes up and down.
The bmgr command has been expanded to include real transport interrogation and
selection by name, and some documentation has been written for it.
Ordinarily we wipe the data of apps we are restoring. This is problematic for
packages that expect that their data can never be wiped back to nothing,
especially system packages, so we now respect the android:allowClearUserData
manifest attribute.
The observer is told when restore begins how many packages are being restored.
It then gets an onUpdate() call telling it that the Nth package is now
undergoing restore. Ultimately, its restoreFinished() callback is invoked,
passing a simple success/fail error code, to let it know that the restore
operation has concluded.
Backup transports now provide the Backup Manager with a suggested name with
which it can disambiguate any transport-specific bookkeeping that it needs to
maintain. The Manager keeps separate application backup 'state blobs' for each
transport now, preventing things from getting out of step if the device is
switched among multiple transports.
Also, the metadata backup agent is always invoked now on each backup pass. This
is cheap when there is nothing to do, but also strongly ensures that we never
wind up in a situation where a given transport destination has not been given
all of the metadata necessary for the backup set.
This CL does the following:
+ adds an AbsoluteFileBackupHelper class for managing backup of files
known by absolute path, not based off of the app's getFilesDir() root
+ bumps up the collection interval from its testing-only default of 1 second
to 3 minutes
+ adds a SystemBackupAgent class to the main system package and names it as
the android:backupAgent for the main OS package. Right now this agent
only backs up & restores the wallpaper file.
+ amend the Wallpaper Service to inform the Backup Manager when the wallpaper
changes.
On the subject of the 3-minute collection interval before the backup actually
occurs: this can be short-circuited from an adb shell. Running the command
'bmgr run' will cause the Backup Manager to kick off any pending backup
operations immediately.
This change amends the doRestore() / onRestore() interface to backup agents to
provide the integer android:versionCode of the app that stored the backup set.
This should help agents figure out how to handle whatever historical data set
they're handed at restore time.
In addition to the signatures of each participating application, we now also
store the versionCode of each backed-up package, plus the OS version running on
the device that contributed the backup set. We also refuse to process a backup
from a later OS revision to an earlier one, or from a later app version to an
earlier.
LocalTransport has been modified as well to be more resilient to changes in the
system's use of metadata pseudopackages.
We now record the version number of the app (drawn from its manifest versionCode
attribute) along with its signatures. At restore time, we compare the version
associated with the restore set with the version present on the device. If the
restore set is from a newer version of the app than is present on device, we do
not perform the restore operation.
Also fix the pending-backup iteration in 'dumpsys backup'.
On restore now, the backup manager gets the signature blocks corresponding to
the restore set from the transport. It then validates those signatures against
the on-device app signatures, and refuses to restore data to an app whose
on-device sig block does not match the backup image's.
Also actually implement 'bmgr transport N' so that we can select the local
transport easily during runtime.
Under a pseudo-app for the Package Manager, we store the app signatures for all
participating applications installed on the device. At restore time we will
restore this first, then ensure that the current on-device signature chain is
compatible with the one in the backup set. If there's a mismatch, this may be a
spoof attempt and we will refuse to restore that app's data.
The restore side of this is not implemented, but the Package Manager agent is
here as well as the backup side theoretically pushing the data now.
We no longer instantiate the transport just for the duration of handling a
backup or restore operation. Instead, we hold the object forever (replacing it
if instructed to do so). This makes it easier for transports to watch system
state and help set backup timing policy.
Also fixes up the IBackupTransport documentation a bit.
The 'list sets' and 'restore token#' commands from bmgr now do what they are
supposed to. At this point we see the restore target's data being cleared
properly and its agent being launched and invoked for restore.
When an application requests a backup via dataChanged(), we now journal that
fact on disk. The journal persists and is only removed following a successful
backup pass. When the backup manager is started at boot time, it looks for any
existing journal files and schedules a backup for the apps listed in them, on
the expectation that the device shut down or crashed before a backup could be
performed.
Adds most of the code for a background-thread restore process, structured much
like the backup thread. Broke some common functionality out into a helper
function for doing a synchronous wait for a requested agent to attach.
Added a method to IBackupTransport whereby the transport will be asked for
an opinion on whether this is a good time for a backup to happen. It will
reply with the results of its policymaking around backoff intervals, time-of-day
selection, etc.
We now supply an array of RestoreSet objects instead of wacky Bundle
shenanigans. Also, pushed beginRestoreSession() out to the BackupManager
concrete interface class so that SetupWizard can use it.
(beginRestoreSession() is @hide, non-privileged apps cannot use it. It's
also guarded by android.permission.BACKUP enforcement.)
Restore is a fairly complicated, somewhat stateful process, so we introduce
a new interface to encapsulate the various bits and pieces into a nicely
separable component. In particular, this will make it much cleaner to
open and interrogate an expensive-to-construct transport and then reuse it
for the actual restore process itself.
Instead of just passing a package name to performBackup, pass the whole
PackageInfo struct, explicitly including the list of signatures for the package.
No need to make each transport look this up individually when it's a necessary
part of the backup payload for each app.
The handwritten binder transaction passing wasn't propagating the agent-destroy
transaction to the client side. Oops.
Also, remove obsolete run-one-agent code from the backup manager service.
* Put in some permission enforcement around agent connection notification
and full-backup scheduling.
* Full backup now applies to any package, not just backup participants who
have declared their own android:backupAgent
* The process of running the backup operation on the set of apps who have
been queued for it is now done in a separate thread, with a notification
mechanism from the main Backup Manager service to pass along new-agent
binding knowledge. There's no longer one do-backup message on the primary
Handler per target application.
* The new backup thread sets up the desired transport now and passes
along the newly backed-up data to it for each backup target. Two
transports have been defined so far, GoogleTransport and AdbTransport;
both are stubs at present.
Note that at present the backup data output file seems to be properly
created, but after doBackup() is called on the test app's agent it's
still zero size.
Backups will be handled by launching the application in a special
mode under which no activities or services will be started, only
the BackupAgent subclass named in the app's android:backupAgent
manifest property. This takes the place of the BackupService class
used earlier during development.
In the cases of *full* backup or restore, an application that does
not supply its own BackupAgent will be launched in a restricted
manner; in particular, it will be using the default Application
class rather than any manifest-declared one. This ensures that the
app is not running any code that may try to manipulate its data
while the backup system reads/writes its data set.
Given a package name, the Backup Manager schedules a *full* (i.e. non-
incremental) backup pass for that package. Also added the state-file
handling for distinguishing to the target between the full and incremental
backup requests.
Author: Christopher Tate <ctate@google.com>
Date: Mon May 4 16:38:11 2009 -0700
IBackupService now passes ParcelFileDescriptors rather than int fds
The outlines of backup state file / data file handling are now in place as well
in the BackupManagerService.
Author: Christopher Tate <ctate@google.com>
Date: Thu Apr 30 12:40:19 2009 -0700
Hide the backup stuff for now
Also adjust based on comments:
+ changed service intent string to conform to usage guidelines
+ only publish the IBackupService binder when invoked with the right
intent action
+ docs tweaks
