Is there a difference between nandroid in Clockworkmod or amonRA recovery? If no can I move my nandroid backups from Clockworkmod directory to nandroid and do restores with amonRA nandroid?
Can I rename my nandroid backups to something more meaningful without causing a problem?
also wondering the same thing. Can you change the name to atleast the date?
You can rename the backup before it starts if you're using ROM Manager. Otherwise, make a copy of the backup you want on your PC, rename it, and try it. If it doesn't work, it will just not go and you can reboot and try something else. Worst case, you load the original nandroid, install your preferred recovery with ROM Manager, and re-nandroid it with a useful name.
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I'm just looking for a clarification here.
I understand that by doing an Nandroid backup, it backs up EVERYthing, from Rom, to apps, to data, all they way down to texts and every intimate detail about settings. I was wondering, when I do a Nandroid backup, and it saves the "nandroid" folder on my SD card, is this EVERYTHING I need?
Reason being is this.
I WAS running CyanogenMod6. I have a nandroid backup on my SD Card of it.
I switched to Ava's froyo rom.
I want to go back to Cyanogen using my nandroid.
Could I:
Transfer the Nandroid from my SD to my computer then create a NEW nandroid on my SD of AVA and have these be two complete backups of everything minus the special folders on my SD that isn't a Nandroid folder?
I guess in easier terms im asking, is the ENTIRE nandroid backup stored in the nandroid folder and contain just the
boot/data/system images along w/ the md5 file?
What recovery are you running? If you're on AmonRa you can just make another nandroid backup of your current ROM, then go into restore and pick the prior backup (they're catalogued by date/time of backup).
I'm not sure how ClockworkMod recovery works, if it's the same or not.
I have something like 7 backups on my SD card. I need to pare that down though so I just have my original stock 2.1 ROM setup and then my current ROM as those are the only two I really need.
phobos512 said:
What recovery are you running? If you're on AmonRa you can just make another nandroid backup of your current ROM, then go into restore and pick the prior backup (they're catalogued by date/time of backup).
I'm not sure how ClockworkMod recovery works, if it's the same or not.
I have something like 7 backups on my SD card. I need to pare that down though so I just have my original stock 2.1 ROM setup and then my current ROM as those are the only two I really need.
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I'm Running CWM right now for recovery. Kind of wanted to switch to the AmonRa, searching on how to do that.
I realized recently that my nandroid backups were not completing correctly (see pic). I noticed this because I have done numerous nandroid backups and there is only one backup showing in the nandroid folder. It always says "backup complete" but above that it looks like it might not be completing correctly? Is there a way to reinstall nandroid backup?
this is normal...
I've experienced problems with backups in Amon Ra as well. I've had a lot more success backing up via Rom Manager through Clockwork. Just an FYI for the future.
tyrnight, what is normal? and how come when I just ran this Nand backup, I have no new backups in the nandroid folder?
MSmith1, I thought Clockwork isnt a complete backup like Nandroid?
ryan2202 said:
tyrnight, what is normal? and how come when I just ran this Nand backup, I have no new backups in the nandroid folder?
MSmith1, I thought Clockwork isnt a complete backup like Nandroid?
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clockwork is a recovery just like amon is a recovery -
THEY BOTH have nandroid backup feature... its just as easy if not easier in clockwork and yes it is a complete nandroid backup
ryan2202 said:
tyrnight, what is normal? and how come when I just ran this Nand backup, I have no new backups in the nandroid folder?
MSmith1, I thought Clockwork isnt a complete backup like Nandroid?
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Clockwork & Nandroid are two different things. Amon RA & Clockwork are two different recoveries, & the nandroid backups can be performed by both of them.
I'm personally using Amon RA's recovery because i heard Clockwork doesn't wipe data as it's supposed to.
In the image you posted you are using clockworkmod backup/recovery. Therefore your back up images are in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup, not nandroid.
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In the image you posted you are using clockworkmod backup/recovery. Therefore your back up images are in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup, not nandroid.
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exactly...
OK I think I got it now. I thought Nandroid backed up differently than the Clockwork or Amon tools. I didnt realize the Clockwork (which I have been using) is a COMPLETE back up of the phone. I thought it was only backing up the ROM and not the data and apps, etc.
So since I have Clockwork/Amon through ROM Manager I can just use that to run my complete backups instead of going into Nandroid through recovery mode?
You can only use Clockwork to backup via ROM Manager. If you use Amon RA you'll have to manually boot into Recovery & backup from there.
Clockwork is not working properly. It is not backing up sdcard's and is not wiping all data. I recommend just using nand and quickboot however the new clockwork flashed over nand had to reinstall Nand Recovery via adb etc..
I'm new to this all myself but I think the reason it won't back up the SD card is because it would have to backup the entire card and where would it put the file? I'm guessing your SD card would have to be large enough and partitioned for it to write the backup to. That is total speculation of course...
First of all, according to the pic, your sdcard is pretty critically low on space so a nand backup probably won't complete fully. Second, the message about android.secure is a directory reference that occurs if you have transferred your apps to your sdcard. Since it can't find the directory, I'm assuming you aren't using apps2sd. The second message about the sd-ext directory only applies if you've actually created a secondary partition on your sdcard. So just because it skips those two areas doesn't mean that the remainder of your data has not been backed up.
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how can i change from clockwork recovery to amon_ra recovery and still retain the ROM/settings etc. in my current nandroid backup?
If you have rom manager you can do it that way, just go to where it says flash alternate recovery, and you'll see it.
Switching recovery images won't affect your rom our the backups you've made but I would imagine you might run into problems if you try to use RA to restore a backup that was made by clockwork.. maybe not though..
ok i flashed RA outside of ROManager. backups were made with ROManager before installation of RA. initially i couldn't restore my ROManager backups from RA. after some hair pulling i figured out that the directory structures/naming conventions were different. i couldn't find any info on how RA's backup util named it's directories, so i just made a RA backup. once i had done this i could easily figure out the method for the naming.
i was able to do this all after flashing RA, and running it. once i was in it i just by flipped on the USB-MS mode viewing the sd card contents, creating the necessary directories, moving ROManager backups etc. then turned off MS mode, wiped the dalvik, and restored my ROManager backups.
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I was wiping my phone with RA Recovery when I accidentally wiped my SD card clean. I have a Nandroid backup on my laptop which I was able to get my SD Card but it was backed up using clockworkmod. I flashed the updated RA Recovery 3.07 which should allow me to restore a clockworkmod backup but when I got to restore, I get "E: No clockworkmod nandroid-backup files found." When I go into "Nand Restore" it shows the nandroid backup which is labeled "2011-10-29.15.59.35". After I select it, it shows me all the files inside that folder. Can anyone help me figure out how to get this restore working?
I have a feeling the folder isn't labeled correctly for the RA Recovery to notice the Clockworkmod nandroid. I have it located in a folder titled, "nandroid" which is what RA puts them in.
Its either that, or perhaps that version of clockworkmod isn't compatible, because I know that they started saving as .tgz in CWM and older backups weren't compatible...so you may have to revert to that old version of CWM, restore, update to the lastest CWM and then back it up again.
I just figured it out. I needed to put a folder titled "Clockworkmod" and a folder inside that labeled "backup" so that ra would see that backup. Phone is fixed and running again.
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For the most part I normally use appextractor to restore apps after flashing a new rom but since i paid for TiBU i figured I'd give it a try. When i select Extract from NANDROID backup the application tells me it cannot find any CWM or TWRP backups. The only location specific options i could find referred to Titanium files, not nandroid ones, so i can't tell it where to look for images.
Is this an issue with the Ion's external SD mount point? I have tried this with the stock 3.7 ROM and with the recent XZXv2, no dice.
In CWM select backup & resore/advanced/backup format ( or something like that as i can't remeber exactly) and choose .tar (Default) then try backup again
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In CWM select backup & resore/advanced/backup format ( or something like that as i can't remeber exactly) and choose .tar (Default) then try backup again
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is there a reference somewhere for why this has to be done for tibu but appextractor just uses folder backups? if i need something from an older image i would have to restore the image, make a tar backup then use the nandroid extractor. seems like an oversight on titanium's part.