Backup your mobile phone in Linux

To backup data from a non-smart SonyEricsson mobile phone (such as W890i) in Linux, use the gammu utility.

1. Install gammu, it is available as a package in the standard repositories for Debian and Ubuntu, just install the gammu package.
2. Create a ~/.gammurc file with the following content:

   [gammu]
   port = /dev/ttyACM0
   connection = at

3. Connect your mobile phone to the computer with the USB cable and select Phone mode
4. Use
   

   gammu backup <filename>.vcf -yes

   to backup your phone book to a vCard file

5. Use
   

   gammu geteachsms

   to get all SMS stored in the phone (both sent and received), they will be written to STDOUT

6. There is also a lot more you can do with gammu