Hello!
Today I've noticed I've no restore button for any backups with the data. I mean, backups are here and Titanium Backup pro making it as scheduled but I can't restore from those backups because there is no restore button.
Is it somehow connected with the ext4 filesystem?
doubt it i always use titanium and im currently on Midnight Rom which is EXT4 so i doubt it has to do with it
iSaint said:
doubt it i always use titanium and im currently on Midnight Rom which is EXT4 so i doubt it has to do with it
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Works for me too
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antila said:
Hello!
Today I've noticed I've no restore button for any backups with the data. I mean, backups are here and Titanium Backup pro making it as scheduled but I can't restore from those backups because there is no restore button.
Is it somehow connected with the ext4 filesystem?
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This has been happening to me. Just uninstall and reinstall titanium.
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did you get it working yet? if you did what fixed it?
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Hi All,
Sorry, I got a pretty silly n00b question... but is Titanium Backup or any other backup/restore app needed, if you just do a backup/restore from the ClockworkMod Recovery too?
Thanks
Sam
A recovery backup doesn't cover the apps you've installed, so without Titanium or the like you'll need to restore them manually.
toysturnaseraphim said:
A recovery backup doesn't cover the apps you've installed, so without Titanium or the like you'll need to restore them manually.
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This is wrong.
A Nand backup (recovery backup) through Clockworksmod DOES backup your apps. In face, it backs up EVERYTHING you have on your phone, aside from you SDcard. It makes a copy of your entire phone exactly as it is when you make the backup.
When you make a nand backup, be sure to mount your /system and /data beforehand or you could run into trouble. Likewise, mount your /system and /data when restoring.
As already stated, a recovery backup creates a full backup of your phones internal files.
Titanium backup should also be used.
Titanium is useful for backing up apps but more importantly it backs up your app data. This is a great feature if you change ROM's often as you can quickly restore your app data, thus restoring game scores, settings, etc.
You can also use Titanium to revert to older versions of apps should an update cause problems.
snowblind64 said:
As already stated, a recovery backup creates a full backup of your phones internal files.
Titanium backup should also be used.
Titanium is useful for backing up apps but more importantly it backs up your app data. This is a great feature if you change ROM's often as you can quickly restore your app data, thus restoring game scores, settings, etc.
You can also use Titanium to revert to older versions of apps should an update cause problems.
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Very useful information I left out.
ah, thanks, so let's say I have a application that requires a activation code, and I switch from Fission to Liberty or whatever ROM, once switched, I can use Titanium Backup to restore my app, and I won't need to reactivate?
Thanks,
Sam
tried restoring a backup and it says md5 or whatever mismatch... is there anything i can do so i can flash that?
I think there is a way to bypass the security in the advandced options in CWM as long as you are certain the restore is valid. there should be no problems? but I'm no expert
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What version of clockworkmod are u on and what version of clockworkmod is the back up from?
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Esteway.619 said:
What version of clockworkmod are u on and what version of clockworkmod is the back up from?
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both from the new one 3.0.25
steviee7 said:
both from the new one 3.0.25
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Huh that's strange. U might have to just reflash the rom and really do everything. Never heard of that problem
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Make sure ur on the proper format (rfs or ext4) of that nandroid backup image
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shortyboy said:
Make sure ur on the proper format (rfs or ext4) of that nandroid backup image
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i am both EXT4
If you change the file name of a backup, it will give you that error. Did you do that?
maybe file corruption on the sd card ??
you could try making a backup of the sd card on your pc, then formatting the SD card, then restoring what's necessary to do the nandroid restore .. just another suggestion.
Just shell into your phone goto the backups dir and do
Md5sum -t *.img > nandroid.md5
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i n00b teh pwns said:
If you change the file name of a backup, it will give you that error. Did you do that?
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I did! it was hard to find the exact one
Making a new nandroid.md5 file like I described above will fix the issue
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shortyboy said:
Make sure ur on the proper format (rfs or ext4) of that nandroid backup image
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This will not make a difference backups are made into a yaffs image. You can backup a rfs system and restore it to an ext4 system.
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skeeterslint said:
This will not make a difference backups are made into a yaffs image. You can backup a rfs system and restore it to an ext4 system.
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But yet a lot of people seem to go into boot loops restoring a backup of an RFS system on a newly formatted EXT4 system.
Do you BONSAI?
kennyglass123 said:
But yet a lot of people seem to go into boot loops restoring a backup of an RFS system on a newly formatted EXT4 system.
Do you BONSAI?
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From my experience with nand backups is that its like the whole /data partition gets backed up/restored which brings in things that can cuase conflicts, things in dalvik cache and such.I have only ever had luck restore a nand to the same rom that the backup was made from I have always had issues going from one rom to another.IMO backing up your apps with Titanium Backup and restoring them without restoring system data has always been a win for me, nand backups have always been hit or miss.
skeeterslint said:
From my experience with nand backups is that its like the whole /data partition gets backed up/restored which brings in things that can cuase conflicts, things in dalvik cache and such.I have only ever had luck restore a nand to the same rom that the backup was made from I have always had issues going from one rom to another.IMO backing up your apps with Titanium Backup and restoring them without restoring system data has always been a win for me, nand backups have always been hit or miss.
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Best to clear cache dalvik and tombstone at the very least after a nandroid restore
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chris41g said:
Best to clear cache dalvik and tombstone at the very least after a nandroid restore
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Yeah good call on that.
Does Nandroid back upp your apps and stuff and personal pictures and what not?
It backs up EVERYTHING.
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It backs up EVERYTHING.
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I hope you are right, otherwise im coming after you
It does NOT backup /data/media. Which is everything you see mapped to /sdcard.
Kind of crazy IMO. I once did a full factory reset and lost all my /data/media because I thought I had a backup.
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Titanium backup is what I would sugest
A nandroid backup will only backup the things you check off in the backup screen. By default nandroid will backup all the necessary files to boot back into a rom. The best way to backup applications is to use titanium backup, which will backup not only the application, but also the data from yhe application.
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I've been searching here and other sites using Google and I'm still not sure about /data/media. Could it be considered non-critical?
I just got my tablet yesterday, haven't had time to customize much. If I had to revert to a nandroid backup without /data/media, would it just be a matter of re-entering the system settings I want and pulling my apps back down from Market?
Jim
Moot point now. I went ahead and installed Epiphany. Don't plan on going back.
Jim
I did a full backup using cwm.
When I recover the backup, do I get everthing back, my apps and settings..?
Is it just like restoring a pc disk image..? Or do I need to use another backup to get apps and settings. Thanks
shaun298 said:
I did a full backup using cwm.
When I recover the backup, do I get everthing back, my apps and settings..?
Is it just like restoring a pc disk image..? Or do I need to use another backup to get apps and settings. Thanks
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cwm backs up everything if you do a FULL backup
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It does not backup /data/media folder.
You should also delete .android_secure.img from your backup set or a full restore will fail before it restores flexrom.
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I'm just curious if the data will be backed up and restored in sdcard partition.
jeffcleds said:
I'm just curious if the data will be backed up and restored in sdcard partition.
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Only if you use a kernel that has a cwm that can back up to sd-ext
From memory for stock rom whitexp kernel cwm can
Cm 11 kernel with cwm6 can
You will just have to try
marcussmith2626 said:
Only if you use a kernel that has a cwm that can back up to sd-ext
From memory for stock rom whitexp kernel cwm can
Cm 11 kernel with cwm6 can
You will just have to try
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so. should i move apps into internal memory before i perform a nandroid backup?
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so. should i move apps into internal memory before i perform a nandroid backup?
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Well you don't have to as long as you don't format sd-ext a nandroid backup wouldn't touch that partition unless the CWM is able to but it wouldn't get backed up or restored so if you changed roms and then restored your nandroid backup your sd-ext apps should still be there as long as that partition isn't formatted
But if you want to backup apps for if you change roms it's best to use titanium backup app
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Well you don't have to as long as you don't format sd-ext a nandroid backup wouldn't touch that partition unless the CWM is able to but it wouldn't get backed up or restored so if you changed roms and then restored your nandroid backup your sd-ext apps should still be there as long as that partition isn't formatted
But if you want to backup apps for if you change roms it's best to use titanium backup app
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thankyou sir. pressed
i get it now. so i'll just not configure anything on sd-ext then.
so, after restoring the nandroid backup. i will relink the application files again?
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so, after restoring the nandroid backup. i will relink the application files again?
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Nope they will already be there unless you have updated the app since making the backup