---
title: "How to: backup google authenticator app two-factor secrets"
tags: ["gauth", "root", "android", "2fa"]
categories: ["recipe"]
date: "2017-06-12T11:44:46+02:00"
draft: false
---

Quick and dirty:

- Connect your device to the PC via USB
- Enable debugging mode
- From the terminal:

```bash
adb root
adb pull /data/data/com.google.android.apps.authenticator2/databases/databases
sqlite3 ./databases "select * from accounts" > ./gauth_backup.txt
```

If you want to generate an auth code from  a TOTP secret you can use `oathtool`:

```bash
oathtool --base32 --totp "<secret>"
```

Enjoy!

---

Pro tip: to generate all the QR codes from the `sqlite` database you could use this python script (which requires the `qrcode` module):

```py
import qrcode
import sqlite3
conn = sqlite3.connect('databases')
c = conn.cursor()

for idx, (email, secret, issuer) in enumerate(c.execute("SELECT email,secret,issuer FROM accounts").fetchall()):
    url = 'otpauth://totp/{}?secret={}&issuer={}'.format(email, secret, issuer)
    print url
    im = qrcode.make(url)
    im.save('{}.png'.format(idx))
```

(source: [thouis](https://github.com/thouis))