I'm new to Android and modded bins so please bear with me. Before I rooted my Aria I made a nandroid backup so I can bring it back to factory condition if needed. If I make a nandroid backup with the cm6 bin will it overwrite the previous backup or will I have a choice of backups. Thanks in advance.
Each backup ranges from 70 to 100 megabytes depending on your apps and other stuff, that said you can have as many backups you sd card
can hold
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Also, it will not overwrite the old one, it puts each Backup in a folder named with the date the backup was created.
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The aria can hold as many backups that will fit on your memory card. It wont overwrite the old one, you'll be presented with options of what nandroid you want to restore by the date you backed them up.
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jasonyump said:
The aria can hold as many backups that will fit on your memory card. It wont overwrite the old one, you'll be presented with options of what nandroid you want to restore by the date you backed them up.
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OK cool, I wasn't sure if nandroid backups were stored on board or on the card thanks.
Exador said:
OK cool, I wasn't sure if nandroid backups were stored on board or on the card thanks.
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As an example ...
I backup and rename , depending on the ROM
I got
Liberated
Froyo001
Froyo002
Froyo002
So when I restore , I know what to look for !
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Is it possible to have multiple NANDROID backups at once? The only thing I can see that would resemble this is via ROM Manager, where it let's you do multiple backups but I'm not sure if these are NANDROID backups.
It would be cool to have all ROMs installed and as backups, so that it's easier to go from one to another while testing and deciding on which one to use as your daily driver.
I have three different nandroid backups on my SD card currently.
HondaCop said:
Is it possible to have multiple NANDROID backups at once? The only thing I can see that would resemble this is via ROM Manager, where it let's you do multiple backups but I'm not sure if these are NANDROID backups.
It would be cool to have all ROMs installed and as backups, so that it's easier to go from one to another while testing and deciding on which one to use as your daily driver.
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You can have multiple backups in amon ra or clockword. Clockwork/Rom Manager let you rename backups.
chazglenn3 said:
I have three different nandroid backups on my SD card currently.
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Sweet! So you did them straight from Recovery or via ROM Manager?
Yes, that's the beauty of it. Just wipe and restore to any setup you have backed up. However many you want, however different.
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adelaney said:
Yes, that's the beauty of it. Just wipe and restore to any setup you have backed up. However many you want, however different.
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donatom3 said:
You can have multiple backups in amon ra or clockword. Clockwork/Rom Manager let you rename backups.
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Man, how have I lived without doing this! hahahah I guess because I've been living on CM6 ever since the first nightly was released. But I am going to give it a shot too. Thanks.
HondaCop said:
Is it possible to have multiple NANDROID backups at once? The only thing I can see that would resemble this is via ROM Manager, where it let's you do multiple backups but I'm not sure if these are NANDROID backups.
It would be cool to have all ROMs installed and as backups, so that it's easier to go from one to another while testing and deciding on which one to use as your daily driver.
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Yes.
Open up your nand backup file, usually named "nandroid" you will find the last 5 or so backup with date and time used to name the files. The Recovery program may have a limit on how many it keeps at once (i.e. last 5...) However if you're trying to back up specific ROM's you may want to copy and paste these to another area of the SD Card so that they are not overwritten in subsequent backups. You can then move them back (in the event that they are overwritten) to the nandroid folder to restore.
-kp
You can use nandroid to make as many backups as you want as long as you have room on your SD card. It is also safe to rename by mounting your SD card and going to the nandroid folder and renaming each one.
HondaCop said:
Man, how have I lived without doing this! hahahah I guess because I've been living on CM6 ever since the first nightly was released. But I am going to give it a shot too. Thanks.
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Right now I have a Sprint 1.47 rom with root access, a DC 3.2.3 rom and the latest CM6 nightly all as Nandroid backups. Once the official Froyo update comes out and is given root access by someone here I will replace the Sprint 1.47 with that and have those three backups.
Captainkrtek said:
You can use nandroid to make as many backups as you want as long as you have room on your SD card. It is also safe to rename by mounting your SD card and going to the nandroid folder and renaming each one.
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I use Amon's recovery and I renamed 4 of my backups a few days ago. They won't restore now, I'm getting the "run from mobile-sh" error
Could someone please explain what nandroid is.
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jamietuffen said:
Could someone please explain what nandroid is.
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Hello,
nandroid is a backup tool. It is run from recovery mode, and makes a copy of the internal memory of the phone and saves it on the SD-card. It can also backup the apps installed on the SD-card in the same manner. It is often used when flashing new roms to the phone, since it provides a means to fully restore the phone to the previous state.
Br,
Henrik
So if i did a nandroid back up on my phone it would back up everything onto my sd card and then restore it to its original state (ie nothing).
J
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Yes, the nandroid image on the SD card is an exact copy of the relevant parts of the phones internal storage, so when doing a restore everything will be back as it were before. If, however, you have apps installed on the SD card using Froyos apps2sd (which stores the applications on the ordinary fat32 partition of the SD card) those applications is not backed up. Nandroid includes functionality for backing up apps installed on a ext partition, though.
Personally I use Titanium backup to backup applications when I'm changing ROMs.
Br,
Henrik
Does Nandroid overwite previously made backups, or will it make a new backup every time? In case of the latter, can you choose from recovery wich backup you want to restore?
(Before I flashed my Hero, I made a Nandroidbackup of the original ROM. I don't want risk loosing this backup when I make another Nandroidbackup.)
I think it overwrites, but i'm not sure.
No, it doesn't overwrite the old backups. You can choose which image to restore.
Br,
Henrik
Tanks for your reply!
I did the nandroid back-up when I rooted and flashed to Froyo. I'd like to take a look at Gingerbread, but I'm wondering if I do the nandroid backup again, will it save another copy or write over the previous backup? If it does write over, is there a way to save the first copy to my computer or sd card?
Thanks!
It will create separate backups each time.
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Excellent. Thanks!
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Hey guys I was just wondering my last sd card busted and I had to get another one so I don't have the nandroid backup from the beginning when I first rooted my phone is this ok?
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Its fine you can just flash to stock and backup that
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You mean I downgrade make a nandroid backup
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does your phone still boot up properly without any issues? i'm assuming since you had backups prevoiusly that clockworkmod is already installed on your phone. you can just boot into recovery and make another backup. it isn't necessary to have your original backup.
Maybe a good time for a reminder that SD cards fail and accidents happen. It's always a good idea to periodically copy the entire contents of the SD card, which will include your nandroid backups, to an empty folder on your desktop/laptop. Just be sure and enable viewing of hidden and system files & folders.
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Maybe a good time for a reminder that SD cards fail and accidents happen. It's always a good idea to periodically copy the entire contents of the SD card, which will include your nandroid backups, to an empty folder on your desktop/laptop. Just be sure and enable viewing of hidden and system files & folders.
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I've been doing this, but I never thought about the hidden files. Thanks!
If I have apps stored on SD will clockworkmod backup/recovery take care of these - ie will it restore the apps back to the sd card after a recovery?
Thanks.
You mean sd-ext? Yes it will backup everything except photos,music things like that......
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Scratch0805 said:
You mean sd-ext? Yes it will backup everything except photos,music things like that......
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ok, thanks
Yes it backs up all the apps on sdcard. Both the sd-ext apps and the .android_secure folder apps.
During restore of a nandroid backup it will first format the sd-ext and .android_secure folder and then restores their contents to it. So it will not mess up the things generally (unless u use the advanced restore to restore the contents to a different rom).
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So this would work to backup apps on Sd, then restore them back to the Sd? I got a tun of apps on installed on my Sd card.. i've been wondering the best way to backup/restore them between flipping back and forth with different mods.
Thanks in advance!