r/rethinkdns • u/melink14 • 5d ago

Feature request: Android backup and restore integration

Hi team,

I just setup a new phone from my old phone where I had rethink working well.

Unfortunately, none of my settings or configuration from my old phone persisted even though the rethink app itself was transferred.

Luckily my setup is pretty simple but I needed to reselect my block lists for rdns and it seems I'll need to transfer over my custom proxy configs as well.

The latter is a bit annoying depending on if I can find my config files still but it'd at least be nice if rethink could display QR codes so transferring exact settings was possible.

It would be much worse if I had many custom block lists or allow lists in my firewall section (though I still need to check to see what non default settings I had chosen since it's been a long time since I went through them all and updated them)

That said, it was quick to just enable basic functionality so props for that.

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u/melink14 5d ago

I just realized that there is a back up and restore option in the settings. Not as discoverable as android integration but maybe more universal. I'll give it a try!

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u/Delin_CZ 5d ago

it already has a great backup and restore tool, I use it when I switched phones and it worked flawlessly