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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hinxman said:
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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Hey all silly question but when nexus 7 is rooted and a nandroid backup taken what happens when you really format the data partition from cwm does that wipe out the backup? Only ever had one device and it has a SD slot which stores the backups. Sorry for the newbie question.
It places the backups on the internal memory
/sdcard partition
It will not be erased if you format data from recovery
It will be erased if you do factory reset or fastboot erase userdata
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bagofcrap24 said:
It places the backups on the internal memory
/sdcard partition
It will not be erased if you format data from recovery
It will be erased if you do factory reset or fastboot erase userdata
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Ok thanks. After a bit a research I found that twrp will backup and restore straight from otg usb storage so will use that.
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Ok thanks. After a bit a research I found that twrp will backup and restore straight from otg usb storage so will use that.
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I decided to do the same: what's worth a backup on a device you probably cannot access any longer?
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AndDiSa said:
I decided to do the same: what's worth a backup on a device you probably cannot access any longer?
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wondering what you would do to be not able to access a nexus device...
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wondering what you would do to be not able to access a nexus device...
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Are you backing up your hard disk on itself? What do you do, if there is a hardware failure? Or even simpler: a 'wrongly' programmed install script which is formatting the data partition ...
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use the cloud.
If you can live with that, do it. I for myself prefer to have a copy near to me accessible all the time.
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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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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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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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Hello, I made a backup in twrp and its 3GB large. I even deleted my music and it is still that large. How can I make smaller nandroids?
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It will remain that large no matter what until you delete it since disk images can build up there own size which will make them empty but the recovery uses a tool to write to this image file and has to leave some unused space to the nearest Gigabyte or Megabyte.
Deleting stuff on your SD will NEVER shrink a file in size unless your editing the text or code.
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It will remain that large no matter what until you delete it since disk images can build up there own size which will make them empty but the recovery uses a tool to write to this image file and has to leave some unused space to the nearest Gigabyte or Megabyte.
Deleting stuff on your SD will NEVER shrink a file in size unless your editing the text or code.
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I mean I deleted my music before I made the backup.
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I mean I deleted my music before I made the backup.
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Well the music is gone now, TWRP does not backup contents of your internal storage.
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Well the music is gone now, TWRP does not backup contents of your internal storage.
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Nope I backed it all up on my pc. But there is no way to make backups smaller? On CWM they are a lot smaller I thought?
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Nope I backed it all up on my pc. But there is no way to make backups smaller? On CWM they are a lot smaller I thought?
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Well the backup does backup the data partition, system partition, dalvik cache, cache and .android_secure from the internal storage.
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Thibaultvw said:
Hello, I made a backup in twrp and its 3GB large. I even deleted my music and it is still that large. How can I make smaller nandroids?
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Your backups will always be large, but if you make sure compression is enabled when you are going through the backup process then it should shrink it down a little, I get around 1.4GB for a twrp nandroid
Hope this helps
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