I've noticed this since I installed garwynn's version of CWM. Just installed the official CWM touch recovery and experiencing the same thing.
When making a backup, the date and time are very wrong. For instance, today is June 11th and the recovery is saying that it's February 15th, 1970. 1970-02-15.08.16.07 should be 2013-06-11.09.57.xx.
Any idea on how to solve this problem?
I don't know for a fact, but unless garwynn speaks up, I would try to run another cwm backup to see if the date corrects itself. I would highly suspect the invalid date backup is bad. I don't have proof to back up my opinion BTW.
Philz recovery had the same issue on mine but a traul through the settings in recovery and I was abke to alter time.date ect
Now alls good
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adie1234 said:
Philz recovery had the same issue on mine but a traul through the settings in recovery and I was abke to alter time.date ect
Now alls good
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Where did you alter the date/time at?
In philz its in the advanced settings menu
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Rom manager
If you do a backup using ROM manager, the dates come out right no matter which recovery you are on.
It has been a problem on all official CWM based recoveries for quite a long time now. It got messed up in one of the updates upstream a long time ago and it's been lost in the code. (Something like that)
But basically it's not really a problem or effecting any actual utility. And btw don't try manually changing the back up names as it will mess up the MD5 and you won't be able to restore them.
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I've changed the name of the folder within the backup folder so it would be easier to know what that backup was. You don't use spaces in the folder name. Md5 still works. I md5 a file, then change the name of the file and md5 it again. Same sum. Granted, you shouldn't be drastically messing around with backups, but I don't see any harm in renaming a folder to like stock.rooted or stockrooted instead of a date and time. The files in the folder haven't been altered. When you're poking around with recovery, it makes backups easier to choose if they are different ROM backups.
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I've changed the name of the folder within the backup folder so it would be easier to know what that backup was. You don't use spaces in the folder name. Md5 still works. I md5 a file, then change the name of the file and md5 it again. Same sum. Granted, you shouldn't be drastically messing around with backups, but I don't see any harm in renaming a folder to like stock.rooted or stockrooted instead of a date and time. The files in the folder haven't been altered. When you're poking around with recovery, it makes backups easier to choose if they are different ROM backups.
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Do not change the names of the internal folders, that would mess the restore part.
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inlineboy said:
It has been a problem on all official CWM based recoveries for quite a long time now. It got messed up in one of the updates upstream a long time ago and it's been lost in the code. (Something like that)
But basically it's not really a problem or effecting any actual utility. And btw don't try manually changing the back up names as it will mess up the MD5 and you won't be able to restore them.
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So, if you have changed the name what does one do? I am currently experiencing this at the moment? Am I screwed at this point?
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Hello!
Suddenly I'm getting on one of my backups "MD5 mismatch..." error. Didn't do anything. Haven't change a name of the folder, nothing.
Is there is some way to restore data from that backup?
Help me, please?
Thank you!
Did u try an advanced restore of data
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Yes. Actually, I've tried it first.
I am getting the same problem, and Yes I also did advanced restore but I got the same error there also.
I had the same problem once. I ended up having to restore an older backup.
Leave SPACES out of your filenames and folders
antila said:
Hello!
Suddenly I'm getting on one of my backups "MD5 mismatch..." error. Didn't do anything. Haven't change a name of the folder, nothing.
Is there is some way to restore data from that backup?
Help me, please?
Thank you!
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I was reading on this as was having same issue...a guy posed that you can't have SPACES in your filenames or folder names.
I did this and worked a treat!!!
Good luck...just take out the spaces...
There was no spaces because I did not change anything. It was Nandroid backup and suddenly it was not working. Couldn't do anything, so, restored older backup.
Are u perhaps using ext4 with no_journaling? All it takes is one zero misplaced and your data goes poof. Suggest in future you place copies of backups on your hard drive.
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I assume you're talking about flashing back to DI18 using Odin. Rename the file from .md5 to .tar and it will work fine. I don't think the .tar has a valid MD5 hash that ODIN recognizes.
Or not, just reread post.
Can someone please tell me what folder clockworkmod stores the backup's in? I formatted my sdcard on accident with a rom that was not booting.
I have copied backup's stored on my computer but when i put in on the sdcard and go into restore, clockwork does not see it. I thought is was in a folder called "backup" on the sdcard, but that does not seem to work.
clockworkmod/backup/
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Kumetto said:
Also you want to make sure to use the correct recovery CWM 2.x or 3.x.
CWM2 ex. BCDMRS-date-...
CWM3 ex. Date-...
The times are in military/24 hour format.
My cousin ran in to issues mixing recov's & backup's. I suspect it was more than just that. However I haven't tried when its pretty painless to switch between the two.
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Not quite sure what your saying here. So you know, you can name the backups whatever you want, like "3/26gb.firerat.4_20" and you can restore backups between cwm2 and 3.
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Not quite sure what your saying here. So you know, you can name the backups whatever you want, like "3/26gb.firerat.4_20" and you can restore backups between cwm2 and 3.
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Every time i rename them the backups always fail. I had to stop naming them. It would just say md5 sum failed or something like that. I got screwed over twice that way so if you do rename just be cautious.
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Every time i rename them the backups always fail. I had to stop naming them. It would just say md5 sum failed or something like that. I got screwed over twice that way so if you do rename just be cautious.
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FYI the key is not putting spaces in there. I have renamed EVERY backup I have ever made (using ANY recovery) so I could tell them apart. I never use anything but numbers, letters, periods, and underscores. I currently have 6 on my sd in /clockworkmod/backup/ named:
gb326.perfection.norat
gb326.perfection.rat
gb326.perfection.rat_ap5
gb421.perfection.rat
gb421.perfection.rat_ap5
nfx.prl01115.pri2.20
I have restored each one of these (I always restore them to make sure they work).
I've searched a dozen different ways to try to read up on this but can't find a thread, I don't want to make a custom rom just copy mine as setup to another epic. If this is easily found could someone just point out the correct search terms. I thought to put this in development but the question seemed to general.
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I've searched a dozen different ways to try to read up on this but can't find a thread, I don't want to make a custom rom just copy mine as setup to another epic. If this is easily found could someone just point out the correct search terms. I thought to put this in development but the question seemed to general.
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About the only way I could think of doing so would be to go into your clockworkmod folder and copy the backup you have there and move that to the same folder of the other phone and try restoring that. Not sure if it would work being the google accounts/contacts and whatever else.
Just make a nandroid backup. Take the sd card out of the original epic, root your new epic using one click 3.0.0.6, boot into clockwork And then click on backup and restore and restore the nandroid backup you made. Not sure if it'll work, but I would assume it would.
It should work, you may hit an MD5 mismatch and you'd have to copy the MD5 file from a backup on the new phone to the old backup but it will probably be fine.
And make sure you flash a kernel that is ext4 compatable!
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Thanks for the reply's, I did try to take the backup folders (3 in all) and copy them to the new phone, but I did get an md5 mismatch. I need to do this for 30+ company phones so I'm looking for the easiest way to get all the apps and layouts we want to each phone.
Lol, I think you better start changing MD5 instead of posting. Thats a lot of phones!!
Do a nandroid backup and backup everything using my backup root and wipe then put sd in new epic flash cwm3 let it convert to ext4 if that's what you were on otherwise use cwm2.5 and restore the system from cwm only boot up into system go to market log in download my backup root and restore all with that. If it can't find ur backup it sometimes makes an "SD" folder on the sd card itself
Edit: if md5 is mismatched just use any rom zip like srf or bonsai as the system backup is basically just a rom the mybackuproot holds all the app data and phone data
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Just make a nandroid backup. Take the sd card out of the original epic, root your new epic using one click 3.0.0.6, boot into clockwork And then click on backup and restore and restore the nandroid backup you made. Not sure if it'll work, but I would assume it would.
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This is how you do it. Yes and like mentioned, flash a EXT4 kenel
Make an odin tar... way easier not to mention quicker on a mass scale, and more reliable. I made a post detailing how.
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Make an odin tar... way easier not to mention quicker on a mass scale, and more reliable. I made a post detailing how.
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I read threw those post to see if anyone suggested this,atleast it didnt get to a couple pages...
+1 on the odin.tar,way easier.
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Hi everyone... enjoying my nexus 7, couldn't be any better...
Anyway, my question... I first heard of the blobs on my Asus transformer, and never really looked into them any further...
I noticed my storage going down quite a bit, and looked into why it was going down... in the clockworkmod folder there is the back folder, all fine, and the blobs folder... the blobs folder 2gb+ in there... can anyone tell me what the blobs folder is and what it does?
Thanks, Matt
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The blobs folder contains portions of your CWM backups.
When you make a new backup, CWM checks the blobs folder to see what has changed between backups, since it's likely that a lot has remained the same.
This can actually save a lot of space, and make backups happen faster.
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The blobs folder contains portions of your CWM backups.
When you make a new backup, CWM checks the blobs folder to see what has changed between backups, since it's likely that a lot has remained the same.
This can actually save a lot of space, and make backups happen faster.
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Thanks for the reply... I noticed they did take a lot less time to backup... so the safest way to delete a backup is through ROM manager? As I would usually just delete the backup folder (the ones inside the backup folder)... but half of my nandroid is still there?
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I haven't had to delete any yet, but I'd assume that managing them through Rom Manager would be best.
Good luck
Thanks again, will try that way next...
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found this thread through google.
cos i was wondering why there is this blobs subfolder in cwm folder, since it's the first time i encountered it.
by the way it's the 1st time i'm using cwm touch to backup so the new prog has got to do something with since there are no blobs folder since i've been using the non touch version of cwm.
and i also noticed that it makes backups faster the non touch version.
thanks.
radeonxt said:
found this thread through google.
cos i was wondering why there is this blobs subfolder in cwm folder, since it's the first time i encountered it.
by the way it's the 1st time i'm using cwm touch to backup so the new prog has got to do something with since there are no blobs folder since i've been using the non touch version of cwm.
and i also noticed that it makes backups faster the non touch version.
thanks.
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I don't think it is touch version, I think it is the newest 6.x.x.x clockwork.mod versions... I have many touch versions installed on different devices, but this is the first time.I've seen the blob folder...
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I was hoping to use ROM Manager or ROM Toolbox Pro to backup my Nexus 7 into one file or folder, so that I could then take it off the tablet to store on my laptop in case I need it in the future. I don't want these damned blobs taking up my precious space.
WHAT SHOULD I DO?
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I was hoping to use ROM Manager or ROM Toolbox Pro to backup my Nexus 7 into one file or folder, so that I could then take it off the tablet to store on my laptop in case I need it in the future. I don't want these damned blobs taking up my precious space.
WHAT SHOULD I DO?
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I'm not sure.. as it is (what I believe to be) a feature of 6.x.x.x. maybe you/someone could compile a 5.x.x.x. version and see if it just creates the backup folder and not blobs...
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From the source: https://plus.google.com/103583939320326217147/posts/L5aVZe7C9vg
It's new functionality in CWM 6.x.
pixelens said:
From the source: https://plus.google.com/103583939320326217147/posts/L5aVZe7C9vg
It's new functionality in CWM 6.x.
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Thanks, as I expected...
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I actually preferred how it was before. Now it's impossible to download the clockworkmod folder over in Windows.
https://plus.google.com/112476065271141473049/posts/CHoh72BD3aj
So basically it's impossible to store my CWM backups on my PC or the cloud now, or export via TB. And the blobs folder is already at 2gb on my 8gb Nexus 7 after only two backups. Time for TWRP.
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So basically it's impossible to store my CWM backups on my PC or the cloud now, or export via TB. And the blobs folder is already at 2gb on my 8gb Nexus 7 after only two backups. Time for TWRP.
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I have the same exact concern.
Plus this time i had to manually specify a backup to internal SD. The first time i did a nandroid i selected "Backup" and it over wrote my external SD card - I may have used an older CWM in the past that didn't behave like that - but this sure did get my blood boiling.
it may be faster on the backup process itself, but copying the blob folder to PC or deleting it, takes ages.
i don't kinda like this way of backup
so: what is the last safe version of CWM using the old style ?
It takes long due to blobs folder containing 16000+ of small files and windows is trying to index it first before moving. What I do is to zip that folder on the device and move it then ....
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I've been wondering about this too. I know it took longer for backups to complete but it was nice just being able to drop a backup folder to my computer for those "just in case" times.
yeah this sucks. I use TB for regular backups and nandroid only when making massive changes, so why would I need it to be slightly faster at the expense of gigs of wasted space?
I switched Tod TWRP because of this stupid blobs. Backup to PC takes forever. TWRP has the old method. It also supports mount of external USB devices and backup to them.
I'm running version 5 (beta) of the Tweaked Stock ICS ROM on my GT-P6800, but I'm having a problem with nandroid from CWM.
I've created some valid nandroid backups in the past, but I found (to my cost!) a few weeks ago that the more recent backups I'd made weren't valid.
Reading the CWM thread over at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1542897 it sounded like there was a known problem, but should have been fixed. I flashed version 6.0.1.1 this morning, but I'm still having the same problem.
Instead of getting three .img files and three .tar files, I'm getting the three .img files but then get three small (<1MB) .dup files instead of the .tar files (data.ext4.dup, cache.ext4.dup and system.ext4.dup).
Anyone else seen this? Any ideas why?
Sorry for posting this here instead of in the developers forum - I don't seem to have posted enough on XDA to allow me to post the question in the right place!
Thanks,
Adam.
Cwm now does incremental backups as only the changes from the original backup are done. This results in faster and smaller backup sizes after the original backup. If your original backup is corrupt delete the clockworkmod folder and redo your backup. After that incremental backups will be fast and small.
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Cwm now does incremental backups as only the changes from the original backup are done. This results in faster and smaller backup sizes after the original backup. If your original backup is corrupt delete the clockworkmod folder and redo your backup. After that incremental backups will be fast and small.
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Aaaaah! Right. Hmmmm. I kinda liked the standalone nature of the full backups.
Having been bitten by a broken backup before, I'm rather nervous of testing this out! So if I want to restore an incremental backup, do I select just the latest dated file, or do I need to restore the last full back-up (and it'll restore the original and all the changes), or do I need to restore each increment myself?
Are the backup folders completely portable, such that I can move them in and out of the 'clockworkmod' directory as requried, to force full backups each time?
Many thanks,
Adam.
Just select the last dated backup. I have restored a number of times using Iocerra's cwm 6
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Fantastic. Thanks, kishd.
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Is there any way to make a standalone backup?
And how do we know what backup folder is the main backup? Aka how do we know what one is safe to delete?
I've made several backups on different roms/kernels, and I often delete old backups to free room on sdcard..
edit: I just did a backup after changing backup format to "tar" and it was over 1GB. The previous backups were between 1 and 3 hundred MB, so I assume setting the backup mode as tar does a standalone backup. can anyone confirm?
changing backup format to "tar"
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edit: I just did a backup after changing backup format to "tar" and it was over 1GB. The previous backups were between 1 and 3 hundred MB, so I assume setting the backup mode as tar does a standalone backup. can anyone confirm?
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How did you do this? I know I saw the option last night, selected it, and backed up, but then I flashed a couple upgrades and now I don't see this option anymore. I tried deleting the clockworkmod folder and backing up from fresh, but it made a dup backup. I've been burned by a string of broken dup's so I really want the tar format (plus, I can extract apps and data from a tar, but not from the blob/dup mixture). I even see a file in my new clockworkmod directory called ".default_backup_format" that contains only one word: tar. This file had to be created with the backup I just did, and yet it was still a dup style backup.
So, where did you see the option to change format to "tar"? I would really like to know.
Thanks.
kevlar11 said:
So, where did you see the option to change format to "tar"? I would really like to know.
Thanks.
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advanced backup options in CWM recovery (or same) ))