[Q] backup/restore of data with titanium backup - Defy General

another noobish question that I wasn't able to find an answer...
having installed CM7 RC1.5 and now I wanted to try with Nightly
however, I'm pretty pleased with how the phone is performing now and after flashing I want to restore all apps and data quickly.
Now, can anyone help me which option of Titanium backup should I use to do it the fastest way?
i thouhgt i would use it like this:
"backup of all system data"
"backup all user apps + system data"
then, after flash for restore
"restore missing apps + all system data"
"restore all system data"
is this the correct way?
are the phone contacts also backed up and restored with this?
thanks in advance for your help...

If you're only updating to a later nightly version, then just flash it. Nothing will be lost (Edit: If you follow exactly the "install nightly" part here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1054447). But of course you may create a backup of your apps.

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titanium backup - difference between user and system data

I just installed the Virtuous ROM and am using TB to get my apps back.
I was just curious, as I don't want a bunch of random system stuff I never used to get re-installed, what is the 'system data' referring too? Obviously user apps are pandora etc, but what is the data? Should I restore this as well?
thanks for the clarification!
How to restore your backups after installing a ROM (if you wiped your phone)
the14thgod said:
I just installed the Virtuous ROM and am using TB to get my apps back.
I was just curious, as I don't want a bunch of random system stuff I never used to get re-installed, what is the 'system data' referring too? Obviously user apps are pandora etc, but what is the data? Should I restore this as well?
thanks for the clarification!
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I often wonder the same thing, and come back to this each time. Opinions differ, on what all to restore.... that said, you may need some of that 'system data' at some point , so .....I go with what the maker says - look in this section: How to restore your backups after installing a ROM (if you wiped your phone)
http://www.matrixrewriter.com/android/index.html
While not a direct answer to your question, hth!
I only back up certain apps + system data.
for example if you want all your profiles saved in SetCPU when flashing to the next ROM you run the "Backup all user apps + system data"... uncheck select all and select SetCPU
if you use NewsRoom and want to save all your feeds when flashing to the next ROM you run the "Backup all user apps + system data"... uncheck select all and select NewsRoom

[Q] Titanium restore help pleaseeee!!!!!!

I installed CyanogenMod 6.1.0-RC1 on my Android 2.2.1 HTC Evo. I backed up everything using Nandroid and Titanium backup before flashing Cyan6. After flashing the ROM, I cannot find how to restore Titanium backup to Cyan6.
What am I missing here? I did a full wipe when I flashed the Rom. Titanium was wiped out in flashing but I kept a copy on my desktop.
Bstok001
After you open up Titanium Backup press the Menu button. Then, select "Batch" and you will be presented with a number of options. Look for "Restore Missing Apps with Data" and press "Run."
You will then be presented with a list of all your apps with checkmarks next to them. Choose "App Only" at the top, deselect anything you don't want installed on CM and press "Run Batch Operation."
IMPORTANT: Until you become familiar with Titanium I would advise against selecting "Apps with Data" in that final step. It is not uncommon that trying to restore the data causes problems.
Thanks,
It worked.
bstok001

What is the proper way to rom hop?

Greetings,
I want to be able to seamlessly switch from CM7 to MIUI to Sense, etc., keeping all of my settings, apps, etc for each setup. I assumed that I can do this by simply configuring each and doing Nandroid backups. But, when I try to restore my Myn's backup, I get an error.
Anyone know the proper procedure rom-hopping like this?
Thanks!
mike
1. Backup current apps and data in titanium backup
2. In recovery, backup current rom
3. Full wipe [factory/data, cache, dalvik]
4. Flash rom, reboot.
5. When booted into new rom, restore apps and data, NOT system settings.
6.
And if you want to switch back, go to recovery, backup current rom, then restore the backup you want; no need to wipe.
Also you'll get restore errors if you renamed the folder using invalid characters, or its corrupted.
Yes, you can just keep nandroid backups of each ROM you like after you get them set up and running how you want. Then you can restore whatever setup you feel like that day.
You can also back up your apps w/ titanium, that way if you install any new apps, when you restore another ROM, you can use ti to restore any missing apps that you've installed since the backup was made.
To the OP, your post is incomplete without the error message
Your steps seem like the proper way to go between roms. What you need to be aware of is, some apps store their data on the sdcard. Depending what is stored, you may get issues. Beautiful wigets comes to mind. It stores the skins on the sd card.
Are you getting error messages restoring from the backup image itself? What error. Are your image files intact?
Might be your version of recovery. I had a problem going from CM7 to anything else. I switched the recovery version in Rom Manager and fixed it
Sorry, I overlooked that. What error are you getting?
1. What % was your battery at? If it's below 30-40%, it won't restore or backup.
2. Have you renamed the backup? You can only use certain punctuation in the names or it won't work.
teh roxxorz said:
1. Backup current apps and data in titanium backup
2. In recovery, backup current rom
3. Full wipe [factory/data, cache, dalvik]
4. Flash rom, reboot.
5. When booted into new rom, restore apps and data, NOT system settings.
6.
And if you want to switch back, go to recovery, backup current rom, then restore the backup you want; no need to wipe.
Also you'll get restore errors if you renamed the folder using invalid characters, or its corrupted.
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Good advice. One thing I'm curious about though. When you do a rom backup, it saves your apps/data etc. anyway, right? When you "restore" a ROM everything is exactly like you had it. So why is it necessary to do a Titanium Backup of all your apps/data (other than prudent good practice obviously) when your ROM backup will have the same. Is there another reason I'm missing?
Second, when you say backup "apps + data" but NOT system settings, what exactly do you mean? When you do a batch backup w/ Titanium Backup you can choose to do Apps or Apps + all system data. How can you quickly and easily backup apps + app data without all system settings? Manually go in and select certain (green) system data?
I do it in case I download any new apps while on one ROM that may not be included in my nand backup.
I don't restore app data, but theoretically you could restore the newer app data as well.
Alpine- said:
Good advice. One thing I'm curious about though. When you do a rom backup, it saves your apps/data etc. anyway, right? When you "restore" a ROM everything is exactly like you had it. So why is it necessary to do a Titanium Backup of all your apps/data (other than prudent good practice obviously) when your ROM backup will have the same. Is there another reason I'm missing?
Second, when you say backup "apps + data" but NOT system settings, what exactly do you mean? When you do a batch backup w/ Titanium Backup you can choose to do Apps or Apps + all system data. How can you quickly and easily backup apps + app data without all system settings? Manually go in and select certain (green) system data?
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The reason for backing up your apps and data is because when you install a new rom, like going from CM7 > MIUI, you should always do a full wipe, which will erase your user apps; erases all phone content. When you boot into the new rom, the titanium backup data is on the sdcard, and can be restored from there; that's why. And doing a full wipe when flashing a new rom kills off a lot of problems, like random fcs, ect.
No, you do the batch operation for backup user apps + system data, just to be safe that you get the data for the apps. That makes it easiest. When you RESTORE, you go into batch, there's an option for restore only user apps and data, right above apps + system data.

What do you recommand as backup strategy when playing with custom ROM?

Hi,
I begin timidly to try flashing some custom ROMs. Each time it is quite time consuming to restore system settings. So far each time I flash a new ROM, I re-enter all the system settings, then re-install Titanium Backup and restore user apps (that I backed up previously). I didn't try the batch job "Backup all user apps + system data" Titanium Backup. Because I am concerned that restoring the system data from one ROM over another ROM may freeze the device.
Question: What are the best practices to backup & restore user apps + system settings ?
Thanks in advance for any help.
when changing roms:
best practice of all: don't restore anything
good practice: restore user apps
normal practice: restore user apps+data
bad practice: restore system apps
really bad practice: restore system apps+data
bk201doesntexist said:
when changing roms:
best practice of all: don't restore anything
good practice: restore user apps
normal practice: restore user apps+data
bad practice: restore system apps
really bad practice: restore system apps+data
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Oh Wow, best = dont restore anything?!? That sounds quite time consuming. Can you elaborate on the technical reasons which makes restore a risky operation?
2LoT said:
Oh Wow, best = dont restore anything?!? That sounds quite time consuming. Can you elaborate on the technical reasons which makes restore a risky operation?
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restoring user apps if just as fine as not restoring anything, unless you are the roms you are changing between have different ui's or android os's like going from ics to jelly bean. But for the most part its fine. The reason you shouldn't restoring certain things is risky is because one rom may have a certain data structure with some features built-in as apps, which are incompatible with another rom without that structure. Its just a matter of the way the developers code their roms
restoring the app also restores its cache i believe, which may cause issues because caches are hash signed by each rom flash, thus switching to a new rom and restoring may cause the app to fail (it expects a different hash sig, from the previous rom), until you clear dalvik cache/cache. not risky, just makes you loose time as well, since you'll have to boot again to recovery and wipe cache again after restoring.
anyways, restoring user apps is a good practice, and apps shouldn't have anything to do with system ui. system apps and definitions is another thing.
i often fresh-start flash. i only use 4 or 5 apps, so.. not that big of a deal. i used to install any junk on my pc's, a long time ago. furthermore, i rather have a clean rom with few apps than a rom full of apps which makes it way harder for me to control whats going on.
Oh cool thanks for the explanation. I "Wipe data/factory reset" + "Wipe cache partition" before flashing the ROM. I hope that it should be safe enough to restore the user apps + data. Just did that yesterday and so far it seems like it's working OK.
2LoT said:
Oh cool thanks for the explanation. I "Wipe data/factory reset" + "Wipe cache partition" before flashing the ROM. I hope that it should be safe enough to restore the user apps + data. Just did that yesterday and so far it seems like it's working OK.
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Don't forget to wipe dalvik cache as well.
Allons-y
Great question and useful information for those new to this. I for one would say you CAN successfully restore SOME system data if you do so carefully. I for one always backup and restore Phone / Messaging Storage via Titanium Backup as this will copy over my SMS and MMS archive, as well as APN settings. Note this is only recommended when switching between Jelly Bean roms.
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This is what I personally do when I play around with custom ROMs...
Backup:
-Backup user app using App2zip (Zips all user apk), you can also backup system apk, but not recommended
-Backup user app+some system data (includes data usage, sms history, etc..) using Titanium Backup
Restore:7
-After flashing ROM and mods, flash the zip file made by App2zip
-Restore ONLY the data of user apps and system apps
-Reboot to recovery, and clear cache and dalvik
-Reboot
Successful all the time for me
kyokeun1234 said:
This is what I personally do when I play around with custom ROMs...
Backup:
-Backup user app using App2zip (Zips all user apk), you can also backup system apk, but not recommended
-Backup user app+some system data (includes data usage, sms history, etc..) using Titanium Backup
Restore:7
-After flashing ROM and mods, flash the zip file made by App2zip
-Restore ONLY the data of user apps and system apps
-Reboot to recovery, and clear cache and dalvik
-Reboot
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Thanks for suggesting App2Zip, can you please clarify:
Q1. What is the difference between "App2zip" and "Titanium Backup"? I suppose App2Zip doesn't save at all the user data?
Q2. How do you use Titanium Backup to backup data only? The closest I see is the backup batch job named "backup all user apps + system data". Is it overkill b/c I just want "All user data + SOME system data".
Q3. Where in Titanium can I select "some system data" and what does "some" exactly mean in this context? Providing a wrong system data restore would bring troubles. Can you please give an exact list of the system data which is safe to restore? I am interested in Wireless pwd, and settings related to Sound, Display, Language Input, Lock screen. So far I have no idea how to backup these settings.
2LoT said:
Thanks for suggesting App2Zip, can you please clarify:
Q1. What is the difference between "App2zip" and "Titanium Backup"? I suppose App2Zip doesn't save at all the user data?
Q2. How do you use Titanium Backup to backup data only? The closest I see is the backup batch job named "backup all user apps + system data". Is it overkill b/c I just want "All user data + SOME system data".
Q3. Where in Titanium can I select "some system data" and what does "some" exactly mean in this context? Providing a wrong system data restore would bring troubles. Can you please give an exact list of the system data which is safe to restore? I am interested in Wireless pwd, and settings related to Sound, Display, Language Input, Lock screen. So far I have no idea how to backup these settings.
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A1: App2zip takes all the user apk and puts it into a zip file. So after you flash your ROM, you can just flash that zip file too in the recovery. It's faster for me, because I don't need to press "install" everytime
A2: You can't do data only... You can restore only the data after you backed up. Also you get to choose which system data you want to backup.
A3: I don't 100% know either, but here's things that I backup:
-data usage
-accounts
-SMS (For the SMS history, but you can also use SMS backup+)
-clock (For alarms)
-country,language,timezone
-email
-exchange services
-gmail
-phone/messaging storage
-wifi access points
kyokeun1234 said:
A1: App2zip takes all the user apk and puts it into a zip file. So after you flash your ROM, you can just flash that zip file too in the recovery. It's faster for me, because I don't need to press "install" everytime
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Yeah that's true, this Install button in Titanium appearing at each app is really annoying. Does App2Zip also save and restore the user apps data/settings? I hope yes, b/c otherwise I can't really remember exactly what I have changed on each app over time.
2LoT said:
Yeah that's true, this Install button in Titanium appearing at each app is really annoying. Does App2Zip also save and restore the user apps data/settings? I hope yes, b/c otherwise I can't really remember exactly what I have changed on each app over time.
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Sadly no, which is a HUGE bummer for me
But what I do is I backup also using Titanium Backup, and then when I need to restore, I just flash the zip file and restore ONLY the data using Titanium Backup. Works every time for me
kyokeun1234 said:
Sadly no, which is a HUGE bummer for me
But what I do is I backup also using Titanium Backup, and then when I need to restore, I just flash the zip file and restore ONLY the data using Titanium Backup. Works every time for me
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How do you do with Titanium to restore User Apps DATA only? Do you use the Restore Job "Restore missing apps with data"?
2LoT said:
How do you do with Titanium to restore User Apps DATA only? Do you use the Restore Job "Restore missing apps with data"?
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No, you restore ALL user apps+system apps. But after you press it, you will have a choice between restoring apps+data, data only, and apps only. Select data only
kyokeun1234 said:
No, you restore ALL user apps+system apps. But after you press it, you will have a choice between restoring apps+data, data only, and apps only. Select data only
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Super cool, thank you very much for your help.
2LoT said:
Super cool, thank you very much for your help.
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no problem
Stop being a cheapskate and pay for titanium backup. Batch restore doesn't prompt with install button on every app
Pirateghost said:
Stop being a cheapskate and pay for titanium backup. Batch restore doesn't prompt with install button on every app
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I actually didn't know that. Sorry for being "cheapskate", but doesn't that the same thing as what my backup pro does? I tried that using backup pro, but personally found it take longer time
Swyped on my Galaxy Nexus running AOKP with Trinity Kernel, overclocked to 1.4GHz
Pirateghost said:
Stop being a cheapskate and pay for titanium backup. Batch restore doesn't prompt with install button on every app
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That's not a problem. I was looking for an advice about backup/restore not for how to save money. When I used Titanium to restore it stops at every app and asking to click on Install and when the app has been restored, it asks for another click on "Done". I am just reporting what I am seeing. Now that you said, I have checked the description of Titanium Backup Pro and may be what you said is the "0-click batch restore" feature which is available in the Pro version. I will give App2Zip a run and will see which one I like better.

[Q] Titanium Backup Questions

So I'm relatively new to rooting my phone (toro, Verizon Galaxy Nexus). I have the most up-to-date nightlies from Cyanogenmod and just had a couple quick questions that I would cherish some help on:
1. What is the best option for backing up before flashing a new ROM? Backup all user apps, backup all system data, backup all user apps + system data?
I ask this because I typically use "Backup all user apps + system data" but when I "Restore all apps with data" the phone is significantly slower. I know this should be due to the amount of stuff I've installed on the phone, however it's really not that much. The Play Store, as well as Swype when entering website addresses on Chrome, lag tremendously.
2. Is there some items I should NOT backup?
I'm curious if by backing up everything, particularly system data, and then restoring it all, I may miss out on (restore old info over) some of the tweaks/fixes in the newest builds.
3. Lastly, really really minor, when I start up my phone after a new flash, the Wi-fi/3G/4G and network strength symbols are a light blue. However, when I restore system data and all user apps, they stay grey after restarting. How can I fix this so I can keep those icons all blue like the battery indicator?
THANKS SO MUCH GUYS!!!!
Mark
Don't use titanium backup for system data. What would the point of wiping data be if you're just going to restore the system data and possibly bork your install later?
063_XOBX said:
Don't use titanium backup for system data. What would the point of wiping data be if you're just going to restore the system data and possibly bork your install later?
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But which files are needed to restore things such as your call log and text message history?
TheBigSizzler said:
But which files are needed to restore things such as your call log and text message history?
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Easy.
1) Open Tibu.
2) Click "Backup and restore"
3) Click "Click to edit filters"
4) Click "create label" then "add elements"
5) click "Call Log" & "SMS/MMS" (See screenshot).
6) click the check mark (top right). Then name the filter (Calls/SMS).
7) go into schedules.
8) choose "Create new schedule"
9) select " Backup All System Data". Add the filter you made in step 5.
10) Done!
Also when you use TIBU to restore your call log and SMS on another ROM later on its best to choose the XML method for restoring not snapshot. Takes longer but is most compatible.
Toro | Xylon | AK Diamond
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I found this post to be very helpful: http://www.modmydroid.net/forum/showthread.php?1715-Titanium-Backup-Explained

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