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[Q] How to backup all system?

Finaly i get everything to work!Now i want to do backup to whole system and how to do thet?and where is save location thet file.I want to save that file on my pc.What is procedure?

Megasp said:
Finaly i get everything to work!Now i want to do backup to whole system and how to do thet?and where is save location thet file.I want to save that file on my pc.What is procedure?
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If You have installed Clockwork recovery.
Then u can backup ur entire rom.
For this boot into recovery then go to Backup and restore and select back up.
after completing all procedure reboot ur device.
Connect your device in PC through USB (Storage)
Go to clockworkmod folder\backup
u can see the file with the date name....copy it to ur PC folder and you r done.
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Ok ihave cwd.Just if later something go wrong,i must install cwd again copy cotest of backup folder and restore?What this chieftec 450w backup?complate rom,os,settings?Example if i have another rom can i with this metod restore to this rom what i backuo it?

a nandroid back up takes an exact image of the whole phone. system, data, apps, contacts, everything. its then placed in the clockworkmod folder on the sd card.
when you restore the backup it will bring the phone back to the exact state it was in when you did the back up.
and as far as i know you cant just select parts of it. its all or none. also i think if you rename it it might mess up the m5d sum but dont quote me on it

I did it from boot menu.Turn on + volume down backup and restore,backup and thet is it,i just go to look where is file and save to my PC.

I use rom manager to rename the backups, and never had a problem.
Also you can extract things from nandroids, apps, data, sms settings etc with an app called app extractor, it's in the market and there's a thread on xda for it somewhere.
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Lol,I happened to test the naming of nandroid last night and I used es file manager to name my nandroid "test(with original date name) and it worked perfect. I need to have little reminders of which backup is which nowadays.
" once its gone,its GONE."

Me too, I currently have 5 nandroids and 4 bootable roms in my boot manager folder, so glad I bought that 16gb card!
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ive got 8gb and still got 6.5 free. Mmmmm bit of a memory junkie i think.

I have about 4gb left lol, 6gb music and another 6gb of roms, backups, themes, apps, icons, mods etc etc
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Megasp said:
Finaly i get everything to work!Now i want to do backup to whole system and how to do thet?and where is save location thet file.I want to save that file on my pc.What is procedure?
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Use Titanium Backup When u are done with the backup all files are located in A folder in your system. Than just copy that folder to your computer and your done

[Q] blobs in clockworkmod folder?

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.

ffff00 said:
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?

bulldozed said:
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.

fonseca898 said:
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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+1
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.

[Q] Question about Nandroid Backup...

Hello guys, I have a question about the nandroid backup on Nexus 4
See I got my Nexus 4 the other day, and I flashed Clockworkmod Recovery 6.0.2.0, then I made a nandroid backup. The recovery said this backup was stored in sdcard/clockworkmod/backup. But when I return to my normal system I cannot find this folder(using root explorer). I can see that 1 or 2G space was used by something but I cannot find this folder no matter how, although this folder does exist. Later I found out that Rom Manager can get access to this folder.So is the recovery using a special way to hide this folder or what? Hope you guys can tell me something about this. Many thanks XD

ShawnZhang said:
Hello guys, I have a question about the nandroid backup on Nexus 4
See I got my Nexus 4 the other day, and I flashed Clockworkmod Recovery 6.0.2.0, then I made a nandroid backup. The recovery said this backup was stored in sdcard/clockworkmod/backup. But when I return to my normal system I cannot find this folder(using root explorer). I can see that 1 or 2G space was used by something but I cannot find this folder no matter how, although this folder does exist. Later I found out that Rom Manager can get access to this folder.So is the recovery using a special way to hide this folder or what? Hope you guys can tell me something about this. Many thanks XD
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Look in /data/media/Clockworkmod.
NOT the /sdcard/data, but in system root.

This recovery folder is only accessible by Clockwordmod when it is running. It cannot be displayed in file explorers for safety reasons, such as accidental deletion. But this folder can be accessed with a PC when your phone is connected to it, in order to take a backup of the folder. Hope this helps
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Check in /data/media as prev post said.
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CMNein said:
Look in /data/media/Clockworkmod.
NOT the /sdcard/data, but in system root.
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I see, thank you bro:good:

ajabhi95 said:
This recovery folder is only accessible by Clockwordmod when it is running. It cannot be displayed in file explorers for safety reasons, such as accidental deletion. But this folder can be accessed with a PC when your phone is connected to it, in order to take a backup of the folder. Hope this helps
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that will be much safer... Thanks bro~~ thanks for the explanation

CMNein said:
Look in /data/media/Clockworkmod.
NOT the /sdcard/data, but in system root.
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Finally I found that folder with your direction. Thank you bro!

Anyone else notice older versions of CWM backups were sometimes over 1gb and these new ones are only about 50mb?

dralways said:
Anyone else notice older versions of CWM backups were sometimes over 1gb and these new ones are only about 50mb?
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Yes, that's a new feature that tries to combine the backups and only re-backup newly changed data

Forgive my ignorance guys, but if you wipe the data partition, do you lose your backups? I want to get this straight before I root my phone that will apparently never be shipped to me.
Ordered my Nexus 4 on the 13th. Still waiting.

estallings15 said:
Forgive my ignorance guys, but if you wipe the data partition, do you lose your backups? I want to get this straight before I root my phone that will apparently never be shipped to me.
Ordered my Nexus 4 on the 13th. Still waiting.
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No you don't as the data partition is separate from the backup folder. But just to be sure, make a backup of your backup on your PC :cyclops:

Does TWRP also stores their back ups here too??
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ajabhi95 said:
This recovery folder is only accessible by Clockwordmod when it is running. It cannot be displayed in file explorers for safety reasons, such as accidental deletion. But this folder can be accessed with a PC when your phone is connected to it, in order to take a backup of the folder. Hope this helps
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how if when i plug my phone to the computer all i can see is the stuff in the SD drive?

Sparta507 said:
Does TWRP also stores their back ups here too??
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how if when i plug my phone to the computer all i can see is the stuff in the SD drive?
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I think you can copy your data/media/clockworkmod to your SDcard(with root explorer or something like that), then plug the phone to your PC, move the clockworkmod folder to your PC. I did it this afternoon

how do i go about doing a nandroid backup? steps please
so nandroid backup? save the backup folder to PC, then i can flash a custom rom like matrix1, and how do i get back all my apps/folders again? just put back the backupfolder?
can i just connect to my PC and copy and paste ALL OF the nexus4 drive? is that backing up as well?

ajabhi95 said:
This recovery folder is only accessible by Clockwordmod when it is running. It cannot be displayed in file explorers for safety reasons, such as accidental deletion. But this folder can be accessed with a PC when your phone is connected to it, in order to take a backup of the folder. Hope this helps
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How do i save the backup to my pc? I do not see the data folder when i pluge in my nexus 4 to my computer.

CMNein said:
Look in /data/media/Clockworkmod.
NOT the /sdcard/data, but in system root.
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Is this directory stored on the internal storage? In other words, when I do a wipe to I flash a rom, would this directory be included in that wipe? I mean, it sounds like a stupid question. And I would expect it to be located in the internal storage, but I don't wanna do a wipe and install the rom and now I'm stuck without my backup.

what would be the quickest process to copy a nandroid backup from my nexus4 to a computer?
and when i wanted to paste it back onto my phone, how would i go about doing that to restore from it?

Restore from backup

I would like to install a rom with full wipe. I have a nandroid backup. My concern is can I really restore all my data including apps and game file via the nandroid back up?
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mirvashstorm said:
I would like to install a rom with full wipe. I have a nandroid backup. My concern is can I really restore all my data including apps and game file via the nandroid back up?
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You can use the nandroid if you want to switch back to your old Rom and you'll have everything as it was. If you want to restore your apps and game file on the newly flashed Rom, you should use Titanium backup. This way, all you need to do is to reinstall Titanium backup on your new Rom, set the path to the backup directory in preferences and restore your apps.
Just pay attention and don't restore the system files.
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also i would suggest a separate backup tool for the SMS, if u want to keep them on the newly installed ROM

[Q] Titanium Backup doesn't find any backups

Hey guys,
I have a little problem here. Since 4.3 Titanium Backup doesn't find any backups of apps I did on 4.3.
So everytime I backup like Whatsapp, do a factory reset or flash a different ROM and want to flash the backup of Whatsapp through Titanium Backup I can't because Titanium Backup doesn't show it. Even after backupping and rebooting, the backup won't show.
I already tried to change the backup folder and so on but it didn't help

danslecarton said:
Hey guys,
I have a little problem here. Since 4.3 Titanium Backup doesn't find any backups of apps I did on 4.3.
So everytime I backup like Whatsapp, do a factory reset or flash a different ROM and want to flash the backup of Whatsapp through Titanium Backup I can't because Titanium Backup doesn't show it. Even after backupping and rebooting, the backup won't show.
I already tried to change the backup folder and so on but it didn't help
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Titanium has been flaky lately with no update for a while.

Preferences go to backup folder location and click select device. Search whole device and select legacy instead of 0 which was the default. Use select folder and click no to moving the backups over as they are really the same place.
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noob15 said:
Preferences go to backup folder location and click select device. Search whole device and select legacy instead of 0 which was the default. Use select folder and click no to moving the backups over as they are really the same place.
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Did that already

Noone else has this problem?

noob15 said:
Preferences go to backup folder location and click select device. Search whole device and select legacy instead of 0 which was the default. Use select folder and click no to moving the backups over as they are really the same place.
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danslecarton said:
Did that already
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danslecarton said:
Noone else has this problem?
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After going though the same procedure that noob15 explained, which was a must for upgrading to 4.3, I've had no problems.
If you've made no other changes the default folder for is "TitaniumBackup" located on your mnt/sdcard/, and inside it you should find all your backups.
If you can find no such folder, or if it's empty, you've probably managed to delete the backups.

The joke is that I can find the backups via a file manager or through PC when connected via USB in all these folders. Only Titanium Backup fails to find them

yeah i have the same problem, change the backup folder and doesnt help.