Hey I was just wondering how many nandroid backup files yall usually keep? I only have a 2GB SD card and each backup takes up about 500MB... Should I only keep the latest backup I've done or is it good to have a few?
copy them to a external harddrive for safe keeping, you never know how many you will need until it is too late and you will be kicking yourself for deleting one. but with a 2gb card, i would just keep one and keep saving it to your computer/external drive to keep space on your card...
=) good idea I will start doing that now since I just barely deleted all the backups I had except for the most recent one I did like 10 min ago haha... hope I don't need the backup I made before I flashed SR 2.2 =/
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I rooted my EVO running Froyo last night using unrEVOked 3.2. Everything went fine, installed titanium backup and backed everything up.
This morning I tried to do a nandroid, and it kept hanging at various points and never completed. I would wait a good 5-10 minutes (with nothing happening), then do a battery pull. Tried this six or seven times, each time hanging at diffent points on different files.
I have s-off, and succusfully installed titanium backup and wireless tether.
I checked the sd card, there is no recovery folder after trying the nandroid. I can mount the sd card to my Win7 pc and navigate through all folders without a problem. The sd card is a class 10, 16 gb kingston card. Have had the card running just fine for two weeks prior to root.
Don't want to do anything else until I get this resolved.
Any and all suggestions appreciated.
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10/04/2010 Update
It was the sd card. I formatted a spare 8 gig card, and AMON_RA created a nandroid without a hitch.
I then ran error checking on the 16 gid sd card whick fixed a number of errors; but no dice on the nandroid. I formatted the 16 gig card and everything worked fine. Great way to test TitaniumBackup (which worked as advertised).
...hmmmm guess I'm the only one with this problem.
Using ROM Manager I flashed Amon_RA and did make a backup. Since that one succussfull backup I have the same problem. Amon will image boot and wimax, then hang on system.
anyone??
Greetings steve053,
If I were to venture a guess, I'd say your sdcard was corrupt. Maybe not completely, but corrupt is corrupt, no matter how small.
I'd advise "wiping" the card, and starting anew. Bad news, I'm sure, but if it is corrupt, and you wipe, and start anew. You'll have spent less time, and effort, that you would trying to force the issue, trying to load corrupt ROMs/backups onto your phone.
HTH
--Chris
Did you make sure that your memory card wasn't almost full? I have had my Nandroid backup stop like that......but then I realized that I didn't have enough free space on my card.
bluebeast213 said:
Did you make sure that your memory card wasn't almost full? I have had my Nandroid backup stop like that......but then I realized that I didn't have enough free space on my card.
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Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm using a new 16gb class 10 kingston card with 11gb free. Will definitely keep the free space issue in mind going forward.
CTH-EVO said:
Greetings steve053,
If I were to venture a guess, I'd say your sdcard was corrupt. Maybe not completely, but corrupt is corrupt, no matter how small.
I'd advise "wiping" the card, and starting anew. Bad news, I'm sure, but if it is corrupt, and you wipe, and start anew. You'll have spent less time, and effort, that you would trying to force the issue, trying to load corrupt ROMs/backups onto your phone.
HTH
--Chris
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Thanks Chris,
You may be onto something. My titanium backups have been hanging too, so there could be something preventing writes to the card. It's strange that Amon_RA does write the wimax and boot images; and my one succussful backup indicates that the system image is the next one backed up.
I have a spare 8 gb card that I will format and test with.
Thanks for the suggestion.
Steve
So I have created 2 nandroid backups, and a titanium backup, and now my SD card has no more room on it. I used SwifTP to copy the backups onto my computer. Just to be sure, so I dont F anything up: Is it ok to delete the OLD nandroid backup file? If so, can I do this just by selecting it in Astro, and hitting delete?
Yes, you can delete from Astro if you are 100% certain you are in the right file path, and have the correct file.
You can also delete it from within ROM Manager in the manage/restore backups section - long press what you want to delete, follow prompts.
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A good practice is to every so often copy your SD card contents to your PC so you'll have them, just in case. Maybe every other week or something like that. Why? SD cards do & will fail, and when yours does, you'll have a semi-recent backup of the card.
A full or nearly full SD may make it wonky when you flash a ROM, so maybe consider taking some things off the SD if you can, so the flashing has room to stretch out.
The path is /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2011-01-....yada yada date and time of backup
Thanks for the advice about the full card, I didnt know that.
What I usually do since I still have the OEM card is just leave one backup in there and save the rest to my PC. I then delete them off the SD card to save room. If I ever need to go back to other backups, I can just pull it off my PC without having them all cluttering up my SD card.
You can use rom manager to delete your unneeded backups also
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What I usually do since I still have the OEM card is just leave one backup in there and save the rest to my PC. I then delete them off the SD card to save room. If I ever need to go back to other backups, I can just pull it off my PC without having them all cluttering up my SD card.
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That's pretty much what I do. Then I looked in my Nandroid folder on my computer... it was 30+ GB! Figured I really only need the last few or so. Im always going through and cleaning out my SD card. Between all the roms and apps, lots of junk can be collected.
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Wow, only 9.25gb here!
+1 for using Rom Manager
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You can use rom manager to delete your unneeded backups also
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This is the safest method, prevents you from accidentally deleting files from wrong directory. Plus, try to name your backups (NO SPACES!), it makes it all easier.
P.S: My Nandroid folder on my PC is 15GB, on my SD is 600MB (OEM 2GB Card)
I recently backed up my sd card and noticed that there is just a hell of a lot of crap there I would love to get rid of as much as I can because I am sure my nearly filled 16gb card would benefit from several gigs of extra space.
Anyway, here is what want to do. Copy the folders involved with clockwork (or nandroid) bapckup. After all the important files are safely backed up, format the card and copy the backup files back to the phone. Then just do a simple restore and the SD card SHOULD be as pristine as possible with my apps restored. I am basing this purely on assumption, but it seems to make sense.
If I am going under the proper assumptions and this will work, are there any pitfalls I should be ready for? What folders am I looking for? Just the clockwork folder? Do I need to get any of the system folders like .android-secure or any of those important looking ones?
Thanks for the help.
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I recently backed up my sd card and noticed that there is just a hell of a lot of crap there I would love to get rid of as much as I can because I am sure my nearly filled 16gb card would benefit from several gigs of extra space.
Anyway, here is what want to do. Copy the folders involved with clockwork (or nandroid) bapckup. After all the important files are safely backed up, format the card and copy the backup files back to the phone. Then just do a simple restore and the SD card SHOULD be as pristine as possible with my apps restored. I am basing this purely on assumption, but it seems to make sense.
If I am going under the proper assumptions and this will work, are there any pitfalls I should be ready for? What folders am I looking for? Just the clockwork folder? Do I need to get any of the system folders like .android-secure or any of those important looking ones?
Thanks for the help.
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I have done the exact thing several times when partitioning my SD card. Should work fine.
Well, I'd dump CWM for Amon Ra, first, then copy your files to your computer, like you said.
Then use the format option in Settings to format your card, reboot, and you'll have just the needed files on there.
Then copy back the stuff you know you need.
I'm a long time reader of XDA but I'm fairly certain that this is the first time I've ever really needed to post as most of my questions are answered by others. This time I can't find any answers so I have to post.
Here is my situation: I've backed up all of my data with Titanium Backup Pro, I do this regularly. I was running CM9 and everything worked beautifully well and all of the apps that I wanted to be were saved on my external micro SD card. Then I decided to upgrade to the new CM10 for one reason or another so I did a backup with TB then wiped my phone, installed Gingerbread, and then installed CM10 (I guess I had to, the current CM9 wouldn't allow me to flash CM10 for one reason or another).
The installation all went well but then when doing the restore with TB I realized that it was restoring everything to my phone memory and not to the external SD. It then stopped restoring when it ran out of space on the phone. Now I have data on both my external (that wasn't wiped so the info is still there) and on my phone. When I try to move any app to the external SD as I once did, instead of sending it to the micro SD card, it sends it to an internal mounted drive called ASEC (or at least as far as I can tell). Basically the phone ignores the fact that I have an external card and it won't let me move apps there. Being put off by this I went through the steps of restoring CM9 but not through a Nandroid backup. I did a full factory wipe and just reinstalled it. I didn't think to make a nandroid because it was backed up with TB. It may have been stupid but there's nothing I can do about it now.
Now with CM9 installed I'm having the exact same problem I had with CM10 and I'm confused as hell. Why doesn't it want to link my apps to the external data that's already there? Shouldn't TB remember the directory's and point the apps in that direction? I can understand why it would be confused with CM10 because the file naming structure was different (it was Sdcard1 or something like that instead of external_SD) but now I'm completely lost after reinstalling CM9. Anyone have any ideas on how to correct this? When I try to move any apps to the SD card it just puts them in the same ASEC folder. Any help is certainly appreciated.
I'm trying to figure out how to properly backup Need For Speed Most wanted. Last time I swapped roms, I used Titanium Backup to backup NFS and it said it was successful. Then when I tried to restore it, it didn't do anything. I'm trying to back it up again and its seems to take not nearly long enough. Anyone know how to backup the right files to keep my saved game?
There's going to be a folder somewhere on your SD card storing the downloaded files for NFS. You'll have to find that on the SD card (internal i think)