What I want to accomplish: Send the backup/ROM file to to a computer.
I thought it would be under SDCard/ClockWorkMod/backups but that doesn't even exist. And I do have 2 backups currently.
Backups are in mnt/shell/emulated/clockwordmod/backups
you will need a root browser to copy the backups to sdcard first
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Awesome, that's the answer I was seeking. Thanks+
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I keep getting not enough space error whenever I take a backup. Can anybody please tell me how to get around the error?
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stivelio said:
I keep getting not enough space error whenever I take a backup. Can anybody please tell me how to get around the error?
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How much space do you have left on your phone
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stivelio said:
I keep getting not enough space error whenever I take a backup. Can anybody please tell me how to get around the error?
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Also how many backups do you have on your phone
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Go into a file browser and find on ur SD card twrp or cwm whichever u use and delete ur old backups
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bearsblack said:
Go into a file browser and find on ur SD card twrp or cwm whichever u use and delete ur old backups
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stivelio said:
I keep getting not enough space error whenever I take a backup. Can anybody please tell me how to get around the error?
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You can also copy your backups from your sdcard using adb.
Synatax:
C:\Program Files (x86\android\android-sdk\platform-tools>adb pull /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/ ./clockworkmod/backup
This will copy all backups in tour clockworkmod/backup/ directory to the currently open location on your pc with the correct paths for organization sake.
Then just delete all or some of the backups on your sdcard using root explorer (definatly easier than using shell) to make the amount of free space you desire.
Ready for more backups and you have the backups in case you need to perform disaster recovery.
It's easy enough to just do it through the USB connection to your computer. Cut and paste to a backup folder on your computer. I only keep two backups (at the most) on my phone.
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I rooted my phone just yesterday. It has 0 backups, 500 mb internal storage and 13 gb USB available. I think twr recovery is trying to save the backup in internal storage and I can't find any option to save it to USB storage
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It's easy enough to just do it through the USB connection to your computer. Cut and paste to a backup folder on your computer. I only keep two backups (at the most) on my phone.
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I rooted my phone just yesterday. It has 0 backups, 500 mb internal storage and 13 gb USB available. I think twr recovery is trying to save the backup in internal storage and I can't find any option to save it to USB storage
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Try CWM recovery.
Should I keep the one at the root of the SD or the one in /0?
Also, can anyone explain the two folders to me - /sdcard and /sdcard/0/? Which one is just a backup of older stuff?
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Should I keep the one at the root of the SD or the one in /0?
Also, can anyone explain the two folders to me - /sdcard and /sdcard/0/? Which one is just a backup of older stuff?
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They are both the same, i.e. different paths to the same directory, so you mustn't remove any one of it.
If I switch to tell, can I delete the cwm folder?
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I second the motion - don't dink with the directory structure.
If you can't tell what is important, you are sure to mess it up.
/storage/emulated/0 is the first (primary) user. /storage/emulated/10 in the second user, etc.
/storage/legacy is all your apps apparently installed before 4.2.
/sdcard is the root of the writeable file system. I think it is the same as /storage/sdcard0.
A lot of what look like duplicate files will really be symlinks to the one original file, or the original directory.
How can i move my files?
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Can u be a little more specific?
Titanium backup works awesome for backups if you have root,if not then you will have to do a directory crawl with a pc and back up that way.
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Can u be a little more specific?
Titanium backup works awesome for backups if you have root,if not then you will have to do a directory crawl with a pc and back up that way.
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i upgraded my rom (paranoid android) and it has android 4.2 on it. but with multiuser support, the sd card contents got redirected somewhere else, but it didnt take my files with it. so now none of my apps see my files. i need to know how to get them into a readable place.
You should have done a backup with titanium before installing the new rom,then you could have reinstalled titanium and restored appa and data.The multiuser file system is a pita,install your apps from playstore and then find the directories they hold their data and transfer it manually.Time consuming but unless you have a nandroid of you 4.1 that you could install to do a titanium backup on thats the way to go.
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I made a nandroid already. My apps aren't the problem. I only need to get to my old sd card contents. That has my app backups from rom toolbox.
So you need to move your rom toolbox backup from your old sd to your new backup location so it can restore?
You will have to use a file manager or pc to copy paste from old location to the new one ,finding the new one might be a pain but I believe the old one should be sdcard/romtoolbox folder.
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I figured out where everything was. My old sd card stuff was under "mnt/shell/emulated" while the new sd card was under "/sdcard". kind of a pain trying to find it.
Good to know.
Cheers
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I was wondering... If you do a factory reset in cwm, will it remove the contents of the virtual SD card? I would hope it wouldn't, but want to make sure.
Also wondering if it would erase the contents of the cwm backup folder, since that's been separated out now.
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I was wondering... If you do a factory reset in cwm, will it remove the contents of the virtual SD card? I would hope it wouldn't, but want to make sure.
Also wondering if it would erase the contents of the cwm backup folder, since that's been separated out now.
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No if you do a factory reset in cwm it wipes only the /data and cache partitions so you can then flash a rom which overwrites /system, so everything but /sdcard gets wiped.
And what about the cwm folder? I haven't heard of it changing.
It's always been /sdcard/clockworkmod/
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With the nexus 10, the clockwork mod backup folder is in /mint/shell/emulated/clockworkmod
Thanks for the heads up, I appreciate it.
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hinxman said:
With the nexus 10, the clockwork mod backup folder is in /mint/shell/emulated/clockworkmod
Thanks for the heads up, I appreciate it.
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weird, I went to find my clockworkmod folder and it's not in my sdcard. =O
I also can't find "/mint/" maybe you meant /mnt? but even then it's still not there. I did a nandroid backup, but I cannot find the folder.
Mistype, /mnt/
I know that alot of apps can't see that directory, thats "by design" from what i've seen... i'm using ES File Manager, have it set to root permissions, and have it set to up to root, and i'm able to see it there.
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Ah you're right..root browser shows them.
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So I made a backup using CWM (I am running Paranoid Android 3). If I flash a different ROM, can I use this to restore all of my data? And were are the backup files located? Thanks.
Use titanium backup to restore apps and app data but do not restore system apps or data.
Your cwm nandroids are stored in /data/media/clockworkmod
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So does that restore the internal sd card as well?
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So does that restore the internal sd card as well?
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No. The ONLY way to backup your sdcard is to copy it elsewhere. PC USB otg or something. NONE of the backup utilities actually backup your sdcard
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Ok that helped a ton. Thanks!
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