Losing important data from your Xiaomi device can be a nightmare, but Mi Backup and Restore can help you avoid this distress. Whether it's due to unexpected crashes, accidental deletions, or the transition to a new phone, data loss is a frequent issue that leaves many users frustrated. With Mi Backup and Restore, you have the power to create backups of your vital information and restore it effortlessly when required.
This article will show you the steps for using Mi Backup and Restore, offering practical solutions to common problems and helping you keep your data safe and accessible.
What is the best backup software for Xiaomi? Coolmuster Android Backup Manager is a professional Mi backup and restore software, which we highly recommend you use. It can back up and restore overall Android data on a computer with one click and without a Mi backup account.
Key features of Android Backup Manager:
Where is the Xiaomi backup application? Download it below:
Let's see how to realize Mi backup in one click.
01Install and launch Android Backup Manager on your computer.
02Connect your Xiaomi device to the computer via a USB cable, then enable USB debugging and grant permission on your Xiaomi device as prompted. Once your device is recognized by the program, you will see the main interface as below.
03Click the Back Up option from the main interface, check the wanted data from the table, find a location on your computer to store data, and click Back Up below to perform a Xiaomi backup to your PC.
After you have finished the Mi data backup, let's see how to restore the Xiaomi backup from PC to device.
01 Use the same way to connect another device to a PC via a USB cable, enable USB debugging, and grant permission on your device.
02 After a successful connection, select the Restore button in the main interface of this program, tick the target device you will restore to, check the files you want to restore from the PC on the right side, and hit the Restore button below to restore chosen Mi backup files from PC to your phone.
Coolmuster Android Assistant is another recommended Xiaomi backup app for you. With it, you can back up and restore overall Xiaomi device data on a PC with one click. Besides, it can also transfer contacts, SMS, call logs, music, videos, photos, and more between PC and phone.
What's more, you can also manage Android device on a computer using this Mi Backup and Restore for Android software as well, such as add, delete, and edit contacts, send and reply text messages, install and uninstall apps, import, export and delete call logs, export contacts to Outlook and import contacts from Outlook.
Likewise, Coolmuster Android Assistant also works well with all Android devices running Android 6.0 and later and supports almost all types of Xiaomi devices.
Let's see how to do Xiaomi backup with this Mi backup software.
01 Install and launch Coolmuster Android Assistant on your computer.
02 Connect the Xiaomi device to the computer via a USB cable, then enable USB debugging and grant permission on the Xiaomi device as prompted. After the program recognizes your device, you will see the main interface below.
03 Click Super Toolkit on the top menu > Backup > Select your Xiaomi device from the drop-down list, check wanted files from the table, and decide a location on your computer to store data > Press Back Up below to do Xiaomi backup to PC.
How to restore Mi cloud backup? Check below:
01 Use the same way to connect your target device to the computer.
02 After the computer recognizes your device, click Super Toolkit on the top menu > Restore > Select target device from the drop-down list and tick wanted Mi backup files > Hit Restore below to restore Mi data backup from computer to device.
Many Xiaomi devices have a local backup feature, thus, you can perform Mi backup and restore using this convenient way. Let's see how to conduct Mi backup and restore via the local backup feature.
1. On your Xiaomi device, go to Settings.
2. Click Additional Settings > Backup & reset > Local backups > Tap Backup to do Mi data backup.
The backup is stored either on the SD card or in the internal memory (if an SD card is not available). The path is: /MIUI/Backup/Allbackup.
How do you restore data from MI backup? After you finish Mi backup, you can restore Mi data backup anytime.
1. On your phone, go to Settings > Additional settings > Backup & reset.
2. Press Local backups > Select backup files you want to restore > Tap Restore to restore Mi data backup.
Mi Cloud is a built-in cloud service on most Xiaomi devices, which also ensures you to do Mi backup and restore. However, it only offers 5GB of free storage for you to use, and you will have to pay for more storage space on your Mi Cloud backup account if you have more than 5GB of files to back up.
1. On your Xiaomi device, go to Settings > Accounts > Mi Account and sign in with Mi backup account.
2. Press Back up device > Turn on Mi Cloud backup to let it automatically conduct Mi backup.
After Mi cloud backup, you can restore Mi cloud backup anytime you want. Let's see how to restore from Mi Cloud.
1. On your Xiaomi device, go to Settings > Mi Account and log into it with the same account.
2. Select Mi Cloud > Restore from backup > Choose the backup file you want to restore.
3. Click Restore using this backup to restore Mi cloud backup to a new device.
This is how to restore data from Mi Cloud. If you want to know how to perform Xiaomi backup to a PC, you can click here to learn more.
After reading this article, you probably have mastered at least one method to perform Mi backup and restore. Compared with other complex ways of Mi backup and restore which may need a Mi backup account or cannot back up all files, Coolmuster Android Backup Manager and Coolmuster Android Assistant are the best to conduct Mi backup and restore, for they can back up all Xiaomi data in one click and restore Mi backup with the original file format and quality. Besides, they are also easy to operate, fast, read-only, and highly secure. We highly recommend you have a try.
If you encounter any problem during use, feel free to leave a comment below.
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