Anyone have problems with the performance of xBackup ? - I have about 38 MB of data to back up, and xBackup takes more than 2 hours writing to my PQI 128 MB SD card.
Backup to storage is really fast.
I am currently testing Sprite Backup, a full backup with Sprite is about 6 minutes.
Restore from Sprite also worked perfectly, just click on the .exe file and select restore. I guess I will be buying Sprite in the near future.
Regards
Michael
It turns out the SD cards are rated at different speeds. Maybe you have a slow one?
I've got the viking 512 SD card and a backup of 128MB using sprite takes about 12 mins.
BTW, sprite is superb and well worth the money, esp as it can do scheduled daily/weekly backups and also an emergency backup when power drops to a specified level. As far as I'm concerned its a must have.
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I'm using a 256M sd card. I had to format it a few times to get best speed. First I used sandisk formatter, then in XDA2. I don't know why this should have an effect, but it seems repeatable. tomtom was very slow before, now acceptable.
Sprite backup (compress,encrypt,make exe) full backup 60M used, compressed down to 46M in 5 mins.
Xbackup, it crashes on locked files a few times. after 5mins its only at 8% and I've had to click the skip or reset box a few times, after 15min its only 30%. I gave up, stick with sprite.
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Having had a major panick when my XDA lost all power, and losing all info, (as I thought I had done a backup but then couldnt find it!!!) I have now manually put all the info back on. So this time I have made sure I have done a backup on my PC which seems ok, but I wanted to do a backup onto my SD card also, so that if this major incident happens again where I have to hard reset my device, I will be able to restore my info whilst away from my PC. (still with me???)
Anyway, I have done a backup using Xbackup, onto my SD card, everything ok there then!!! but when I try to restore using Xbackup it doesnt give me the option to open my storage card, and the file I saved isnt recognized by my XDA???
Am I doing something wrong??
after tapping restore, before start, have you change the target to storage card ? ( it's left bottom on the toolbar : "open" )
Continuing this thread without opening another, has anyone had problems with xbackup being rediculously slow? I used to use ipaq backup on my hp4150 and i could backup all data to SD card (up to 30MB) in about 10 minutes. I started xbackup today and so far its taken 3 hours to backup 29MB data, with 12% to go. Is this expected?
try doing a benchmark of your xda's sd card and sd interface using pocketmechanics it'll let you compare the speed of your sd card with other sd cards and with other pda's
Read: 0.99MB/s (6.7x) Write 0.01MB/sec (0.1x)
Write seems a bit slow
Can anyone post a comparison result?
Benchmark comparison
My Dane Elec 128 MB SD card give, with Pocket Mechanic V 1.44, the following figures:
with combined read/write test 0.98 MB/s (6.7x) for read and 0.02 MB/s for write
Regards,
Mark
Markutah, how long does it take for you to do a full backup?
and then you can also compare with different hp ipaqs to see if their sd speed are soo much higher then xda2 and if that could explain why it takes soo much longer to backup
pocket mechanics also let you compare with other pda's bench'd with different sd card brands
Ill try benchmarking it against my 4150 later and see what happens. Still seems a bit strangely slow, with 29MB at 0.01MB/sec it shouldnt tkae more than an hour
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I don't use Xbackup for my backups but just wanted to try for you. I canceled it because it had done just 1% in 6 minutes.
I've totally 66MB of data which takes about 10 minutes with Sprite Backup.
Sorry couldn't wait for the Xbackup to finish.
Regards
Ah, Spritebackup, will look into. Thanks.
I confirm XBack Up is incredibly slow... it was taking me up to 6 hours to back up...
Sprite is working fine in a few minutes
Now it is starting to become clear. IPAQ backup runs on sprite backup's engine. This may explain why the 4150 backs up real fast, and why xbackup is just generally not very good.
QTEK 9090 + xBack up
Since this thread deals with xBack up, here's another question about this utility. While xBack up is running, anyone already also had the following message in a pop-up screen : "File transfer violation ..." ? xBack up then stops and you can choose between : "stop", "skip" or "soft reset". What does this mean ?
Before starting the backup it is best to go to settings/memory and stop all programs running.
I have SpriteClone and it takes Approx 1 1/2mins to backup my XDA1 aprox. 18mb and a full backup (incl. SD approx 200mb) takes approx. 25 mins.
The problem with SpriteClone is that its a minimum of 10 copies @$10/per purchased (geared mainly for companies). An idea would be if a few users got together and purchased it together (or everyone who wants it start emailing Sprite to give them the idea to sell personal copies.
I have no programs running before starting xBack-up, so this is not the cause of this "File transfer violation" message. I tried to back-up with Sunnysoft Back up Plus and this went very well. What's wrong with the xBack up utility ? Anybody else has some suggsestions ?
My xBackup works perfectly. Made a backup of 130MB in under 10 minutes and a restore in under 10 minutes as well.
My Eris has been running very smoothly for several weeks with ELB 2.7 with JIT enabled and most of my apps relocated to the SD card. But a few days ago, I started experiencing crashes when waking up the phone or answering a call, and then last night I started getting FCs anytime I tried to launch an app located on the SD card.
The FAT partition works fine, and the EXT partition appears intact when I mount it, but nothing located there will launch.
I've resolved the issue (sort of) by reinstalling the apps I need on my phone, and switching off App2SD, but now I'm wondering what the next step should be. Does this indicate that my SD is dying, or should I try repartitioning the card -- either to eliminate the EXT partition entirely or to recreate it?
just try reformatting the card...if you start experiencing it again...then your card is most likely dying... sorry...
Even if you got your Eris on the first day it came out, your card shouldn't be close to "dying" yet. Maybe it was defective to begin with. I'd bet willing to be its not the card. I know a2sd is harder on it, but I just doubt it killed it already.
Copy your apps to PC, reformat SD Card, Copy apps back, and see what happens.
Please report back, I'd be interested to see what happened.
Apps2SD isn't recommended by a lot of the devs for a reason. It causes unnecessary wear on the SD card. SD cards have a limited life span of around 100k cycles. When you access a program on the SD card it doesn't just make 1 cycle (read/write), it makes many during the usage of the program. 100k for picture taking and other standard use is quite a bit, but when an app is accessing the SD card constantly while running 100k is reached very quickly.
I'm going to take a guess and say your card is dying for reasons stated above. Try reformatting as recommended, if that doesn't work, replace the card.
The only time this would be a concern is if you moved dalvik-cache to the SD card (as that is constantly updated). When you put an application on the SD card, the data related to the card is stored in /data/data, which is not moved to the SD card (this is why internal storage continues to decrease after you move apps and dalvik-cache to the SD card).
Also, it's 100,000 cycles per block of memory. Most SD cards have wear-leveling technology that helps with this issue, so it will take a while before the card becomes bad (if it is a good quality card).
I would say he has a failing card. It happens once in a while.
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Apps2SD isn't recommended by a lot of the devs for a reason. It causes unnecessary wear on the SD card. SD cards have a limited life span of around 100k cycles. When you access a program on the SD card it doesn't just make 1 cycle (read/write), it makes many during the usage of the program. 100k for picture taking and other standard use is quite a bit, but when an app is accessing the SD card constantly while running 100k is reached very quickly.
I'm going to take a guess and say your card is dying for reasons stated above. Try reformatting as recommended, if that doesn't work, replace the card.
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yeah u gotta be very careful with app2sd
I followed the advice of several people and repartitioned reformatted my sd card. I decided to go without app2sd for awhile so I just did a single fat partition. So far so good...everything is working again.
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I have a sandisk 200gb SD CARD and on average it takes 20-30 minutes to backup around 12GB of ROM data to my card.
How about you guys?
It takes me around 5-6 minutes to back up a 6GB ROM, I'm using a 128GB Sandisk SD card
About the same time as you
It takes me 30 to 60 minutes with a 256GB Sandisk. What I do is that I backup on the internal storage which takes just a few minutes, then I copy the TWRP folder to the SD Card when the phone is on. A least I can use te phone during the copy.
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It takes me 30 to 60 minutes with a 256GB Sandisk. What I do is that I backup on the internal storage which takes just a few minutes, then I copy the TWRP folder to the SD Card when the phone is on. A least I can use te phone during the copy.
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Damn. I have no space for internal backup lol
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My 64 gig external sd card is all of the sudden very slow to save pics and to transfer files from internal storage. It takes about 45 seconds to save a pic and I have cancelled multiple times the transfer of a video only 149mb cause it takes so long. Wiped caches and cleaned what I know but no help. Although the card going bad is a possibility it works well in every other way. Thanks for any input.
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My 64 gig external sd card is all of the sudden very slow to save pics and to transfer files from internal storage. It takes about 45 seconds to save a pic and I have cancelled multiple times the transfer of a video only 149mb cause it takes so long. Wiped caches and cleaned what I know but no help. Although the card going bad is a possibility it works well in every other way. Thanks for any input.
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How full is it? What filesystem is it?
Its a 64 gig with 50 full. Not sure how to tell the format from the device. I did decrease the junk a little but still very slow. I'd rather not reformat unless I have to of course, but I dint want to lose anything. Probably time for a backup.
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Its a 64 gig with 50 full. Not sure how to tell the format from the device. I did decrease the junk a little but still very slow. I'd rather not reformat unless I have to of course, but I dint want to lose anything. Probably time for a backup.
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I would honestly pull it from the phone and copy everything off if you can and try a fresh format. SD cards can indeed go bad and you are right it is time for a backup.
Yeah. Guess I was just hoping. Thanks.
What was the result
Bubba Fett said:
Its a 64 gig with 50 full. Not sure how to tell the format from the device. I did decrease the junk a little but still very slow. I'd rather not reformat unless I have to of course, but I dint want to lose anything. Probably time for a backup.
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HI,
I am currently experiencing the same thing. The SD card is not very old, maybe a year and hardly used. Don't leave us hanging. What was the end result? Did you resolve the issue?
I formatted my card with the phone, but am thinking maybe I should change the file system and format it using my computer.
Good evening.
Spend a few hours trying to see if I can recover my mother's phone files.
Issue:
Yesterday she said she can't see WhatsApp videos or images - new messages weren't loading. Error: Download Failed. The Download was Unable to complete. Please try again later.
She has 64 GB SanDisk SD and it used as adaptive storage. I checked her storage and I saw there was about 3 Gb free space on the phone, however SanDisk had only around 700 MB free.
Today I decided to move all her files to a computer (also she had Google Cloud photo backup, I checked and don't see any new photos or videos in the last few months, I am wondering if some kind of glitch could happen 2 months ago and now was the end of it), and when I connected her phone, it showed only SanDisk, no internal storage (I thought maybe because of adaptive storage it shows like one), but in this case it should've shown around 90 GB and it showed only 60 Gb?
Well I opened SanDisk and it was empty while it still showed that SD is not empty in ThisPC area.
I took the SD card out and plugged it back and some of the folders loaded. I downloaded some of the latest videos, and then found this video:
I did what it says there, however, external storage data system process could not be cleared, it was greyed out. So I just did Multimedia Data and Cache Clear. I also force stopped external storage process (and I think that part is what messed up everything).
Well, when I restarted the phone, all my SD folders looked like encrypted folders, while it still shows almost 60 GB of Data there.
I read online and see that Adaptive Storage is using some encrypted format and my assumption by doing steps above I messed up the encryption.
Question is there any hope to restore these SD files or I can forget about it and count it as a hard lesson of how not to try fixing SD card issues?
Also, I'm kind of upset that Google Cloud backup didn't work as I hoped it would. Any recommendation how to better sync and keep backup of all Data (photo, videos, apps, messages) in the cloud? In Case the phone dies or SD card dies, how I can just clone everything from a Backup?
Attached are photos of what I see now when I connect the phone to the PC.
Could anybody share any suggestions? Anything I could try?