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Backup Issue

Recently, every time I try to do a basic nandroid backup either to my SD card, or my internal SD, I get the same message right as the backup looks like it's about to finish. "Could not backup image /data!" What the hell? This has never happened to me before and it's frustrating because I want to try out different ROM's, but not without a successful backup in case of a bad flash. I am currently on KonstantinKeller's CM9 Nightly build, and apparently some other guys on this ROM are having the same issue. I've tried just about everything and nothing is working. If someone could offer a fix, I would be very greatful. Thanks.

bbaaccoonn said:
Recently, every time I try to do a basic nandroid backup either to my SD card, or my internal SD, I get the same message right as the backup looks like it's about to finish. "Could not backup image /data!" What the hell? This has never happened to me before and it's frustrating because I want to try out different ROM's, but not without a successful backup in case of a bad flash. I am currently on KonstantinKeller's CM9 Nightly build, and apparently some other guys on this ROM are having the same issue. I've tried just about everything and nothing is working. If someone could offer a fix, I would be very greatful. Thanks.
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Under mounts and storage, try manually mounting /data and see if that helps. Failing that, I would suggest flashing a different recovery like the other cwm that you're not on or twrp

yoft1 said:
Under mounts and storage, try manually mounting /data and see if that helps. Failing that, I would suggest flashing a different recovery like the other cwm that you're not on or twrp
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Mounting data unfortunately failed to work. Can you link me over to touch recovery?

FYI Touch Recovery failed to backup as well. ANYONE at all experiencing anything close to this?

[Q] unable to backup system!

hi guys i recently downgraded my recovery from revolutionary to CWM v2.5.0.7.
now i can't do a backup of my CM 7.2 ROM.
backing up boot...
backing up recovery...
backing up system...
it freezes at backing up system..i waited for 20 mins but it doesn't move a inch..
some apps in my sd n some are in my internal storage.
i also tried upgrading to revolutionary and still the same problem persists..:crying:
Can you guys help me out here?
sorry for my bad english.

eddykuhan said:
hi guys i recently downgraded my recovery from revolutionary to CWM v2.5.0.7.
now i can't do a backup of my CM 7.2 ROM.
backing up boot...
backing up recovery...
backing up system...
it freezes at backing up system..i waited for 20 mins but it doesn't move a inch..
some apps in my sd n some are in my internal storage.
i also tried upgrading to revolutionary and still the same problem persists..:crying:
Can you guys help me out here?
sorry for my bad english.
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Looks like you're messing up the terms a bit...: "Revolutionary" doesn't really have to do something with your "Recovery" (Clockworkmod). Same goes for "upgrading to revolutionary" - I have no clue what you tried to do there
Let's try to get some useful information:
- If you've downgraded your recovery I assume your phone is rooted and has S-OFF and worked well before?
- for what reason did you downgrade? to flash a radio?
- if yes: did that work well?
I have suggestions what you could do but it would be better if you'd provide above information first

eddykuhan said:
hi guys i recently downgraded my recovery from revolutionary to CWM v2.5.0.7.
now i can't do a backup of my CM 7.2 ROM.
backing up boot...
backing up recovery...
backing up system...
it freezes at backing up system..i waited for 20 mins but it doesn't move a inch..
some apps in my sd n some are in my internal storage.
i also tried upgrading to revolutionary and still the same problem persists..:crying:
Can you guys help me out here?
sorry for my bad english.
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Clockwork mod and revolutionary are two different things.
Try flashing another CWM version through fastboot or pc49img.zip method. You can find the links in wildfire index thread in development section.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA

saadislam said:
Clockwork mod and revolutionary are two different things.
Try flashing another CWM version through fastboot or pc49img.zip method. You can find the links in wildfire index thread in development section.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA
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i tried the latest version of ClockWorkMod v5.0.2.0.but the same problemstill persists
eventcom said:
Looks like you're messing up the terms a bit...: "Revolutionary" doesn't really have to do something with your "Recovery" (Clockworkmod). Same goes for "upgrading to revolutionary" - I have no clue what you tried to do there
Let's try to get some useful information:
- If you've downgraded your recovery I assume your phone is rooted and has S-OFF and worked well before?
- for what reason did you downgrade? to flash a radio?
- if yes: did that work well?
I have suggestions what you could do but it would be better if you'd provide above information first
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yes, my phone is rooted and s-offed n work well before this and sorry guys previously I was using ClockWorkMod v3.2.0.0..i downgraded to ClockWorkMod v2.5.0.7 to flash radio..but it didn't succeed..So, i flashed through fastboot method and it succeeded.i was able to do a backup after flashing the radio..all went well and 1 day wen i try 2 make a backup in the same ClockWorkMod v2.5.0.7 it stucked in backing up system..

eddykuhan said:
i tried the latest version of ClockWorkMod v5.0.2.0.but the same problemstill persists
(...)
i was able to do a backup after flashing the radio..all went well
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I see. I already thought that it doesn't have to do with recovery - just wanted to make sure
I suggest you to try reflashing the ROM first - but better make sure that you avoid leftovers of your current "system":
- put the ROM and gapps (20110828) into root of your sd card
- boot into recovery
- format "system" (in "mounts and storage")
- wipe "cache"
- flash CM7
- flash gapps 20110828
- reboot
try a nandroid backup again afterwards
if this doesn't help either my suggestion would be to do a complete wipe:
- put the ROM and gapps (20110828) into root of your sd card
- boot into recovery
- wipe all / factory reset
- (I usually do an additional format "system", "data" as well - just to make sure)
- wipe "cache"
- wipe "dalvik-cache"
- flash CM7
- flash gapps 20110828
- reboot
see, if everything went ok then reboot in recovery and do a partial restore of your data (backup & restore/advanced)
reboot again (see if everything works) and reboot into recovery again to try your nandroid backup
There's another thing coming to my mind: do you have enough space left on your sdcard? I never had that problem so I'm not sure if CWM spits out an error about that...

Just for the info, Cwm doesnt give any error if low on space. It just keeps going on with backup.
Sent from my HTC Wildfire using XDA

So what you meant was .... you downgraded from revolutionarys cwm version to 2.5.0.7 ? Did you use revolutionary to do this or other method?
You couldn't backup with 2.5.0.7 cwm so upgraded back to revolutionarys version with same backup issues afterwards ?
You upgraded cwm to 5.0.2.0 and your still not able to backup ?
Can you restore a nandroid ?
Do you have custom mtd set up ?
Ive not come across the won't back up issue but have had the same issue during restores after flashing a new cwm ?
Some cwm restores are not compatible with some other cwm versions but your problem is backing up so this can't be the case lol.
Have you got the Rom up and running before trying to back it up,and your NOT wiping anything prior to attempting the back up ?
1st I would try wipe dalvik cache from advanced and format cache from mounts and storage then try a backup.
If that fails........ (your gonna lose your current Rom setup with the following but 1 of these methods should get your cwm functioning again.)
Try restoring an old backup then if that is successful try a backup again as this could just kickstart your cwm backup into gear.
Failing that.........,
then I think your gonna have to do a full wipe and reinstall Rom.
Forum fishing.... Who's biting!

Agreed. This is very strange. Have you flashed anything else we should know about that has anything to do with the system partition? Tweaks ect?
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda premium

slymobi said:
So what you meant was .... you downgraded from revolutionarys cwm version to 2.5.0.7 ? Did you use revolutionary to do this or other method?
You couldn't backup with 2.5.0.7 cwm so upgraded back to revolutionarys version with same backup issues afterwards ?
You upgraded cwm to 5.0.2.0 and your still not able to backup ?
Can you restore a nandroid ?
Do you have custom mtd set up ?
Ive not come across the won't back up issue but have had the same issue during restores after flashing a new cwm ?
Some cwm restores are not compatible with some other cwm versions but your problem is backing up so this can't be the case lol.
Have you got the Rom up and running before trying to back it up,and your NOT wiping anything prior to attempting the back up ?
1st I would try wipe dalvik cache from advanced and format cache from mounts and storage then try a backup.
If that fails........ (your gonna lose your current Rom setup with the following but 1 of these methods should get your cwm functioning again.)
Try restoring an old backup then if that is successful try a backup again as this could just kickstart your cwm backup into gear.
Failing that.........,
then I think your gonna have to do a full wipe and reinstall Rom.
Forum fishing.... Who's biting!
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hi,
-after upgraded cwm to 5.0.2.0 and i'm still not able to backup
-im using custom mtd
-in matter fact i can restore my old nandroid backup
the story like this after i restore my old nandroid i cannot do backup same ROM again.
and i also tried to wipe dalvik cache from advanced and format cache from mounts and storage then tried a backup and it still fails..:crying:
guys thanks for your feedback im going to do a full wipe and reinstall Rom.!!

eddykuhan said:
-im using custom mtd
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just to make sure: have you flashed the bravoboot file after the nandroid backup?
If you did, well, a full wipe might be a good idea anyway - but: have you tried my initial suggestion - to format just system? if this is the point where the nandroid backup fails this could be enough to solve your problem...
- put the ROM and gapps (20110828) into root of your sd card
- boot into recovery
- format "system" (in "mounts and storage")
- wipe "cache"
- flash CM7
- flash gapps 20110828
- flash the bravoboot file
- reboot
If everything works again you could try to do a partial restore of "data" (in CWM / Backup and Restore / Advanced Restore)
But don't forget to flash the bravoboot file after that one again - and better don't try to restore system again - just data (and sd-ext, .android-secure whatever you like)

Maybe you can try to do backup in 3.x.x.x version of cwm? I had similar problem to yours (I was on 2.5.x.x v CWM) and after it everything worked

I currently have the same problem (CWM5028) and have not solved it yet.
Interesting to note is that the time noted in the title for the stalling backup is 3 hours off. A clue to the cause?

cweijden said:
I currently have the same problem (CWM5028) and have not solved it yet.
Interesting to note is that the time noted in the title for the stalling backup is 3 hours off. A clue to the cause?
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Got it solved... I also use MTD partitioning (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1233340) and probably have forgotten to flash a required zip after restoring a backup. According to the instructions this should have left me with a white screen. That didn't happen, but it left me unable backing up my system for a while. After repartitioning as suggested by eventcom I was able to make backups again.

Error restoring /System

So I recently flashed stock rom and CWM and now I want to use my backups to restore my old rom, but its telling me this when I try restoring:
Checking MD5 Sums...
Erasing boot before restore...
Restoring Boot image...
Restoring System...
Error while restoring /system
help?

zap12341 said:
So I recently flashed stock rom and CWM and now I want to use my backups to restore my old rom, but its telling me this when I try restoring:
Checking MD5 Sums...
Erasing boot before restore...
Restoring Boot image...
Restoring System...
Error while restoring /system
help?
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give us some info here... What carrier what recovery are you using? what rom are you restoring too
we cant help you with this little amount of information bro! we aint wizards XD
NVM IM BLIND AS HELL TODAY LOL
so what rom were you trying to flash and where exactly did you get your stock root injected rom from?

amzi said:
give us some info here... What carrier what recovery are you using? what rom are you restoring too
we cant help you with this little amount of information bro! we aint wizards XD
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sorry,
Using Rogers trying to restore Task and Ktoonsez Rom while using CWM

zap12341 said:
sorry,
Using Rogers trying to restore Task and Ktoonsez Rom while using CWM
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lol did you have that before or is that just me just noticing it now? anyway i suggest you reflash your Rom and restore only the data from your other nandriod backup that isnt working so basically you had another clean fulll wipe (REMEMBER if ur using AOKP which i think you said u gottta format data after you flash it) anyways yea u should restore your data so whatever problem that was should be there again !

amzi said:
lol did you have that before or is that just me just noticing it now? anyway i suggest you reflash your Rom and restore only the data from your other nandriod backup that isnt working so basically you had another clean fulll wipe (REMEMBER if ur using AOKP which i think you said u gottta format data after you flash it) anyways yea u should restore your data so whatever problem that was should be there again !
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ok thanks

[Q] Cannot install from zip

Hi,
I have a problem. i currently have Codename ROM and I tried to flash new clock app from 4.2. I kept doing force close, so I wanted to restore my backup and it does not work - it says "MD5 mismatch", I cannot even make another backup, it looks like recover reboots. When I wanted to flash Codename again it said to me "Installation aborted, symlink: some symlinks failed (status 7)". Any idea how to get it all back to work?
Thank you!
EDIT: Great! Now I cannot even boot the system.

devcager said:
Hi,
I have a problem. i currently have Codename ROM and I tried to flash new clock app from 4.2. I kept doing force close, so I wanted to restore my backup and it does not work - it says "MD5 mismatch", I cannot even make another backup, it looks like recover reboots. When I wanted to flash Codename again it said to me "Installation aborted, symlink: some symlinks failed (status 7)". Any idea how to get it all back to work?
Thank you!
EDIT: Great! Now I cannot even boot the system.
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Do you have a working Nandroid on your computer that you can push back into your phone and then restore (after wiping and formatting everything)?

dirtygoldfish said:
Do you have a working Nandroid on your computer that you can push back into your phone and then restore (after wiping and formatting everything)?
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I managed to flash Codename ROM again but it seems that my recovery has problem with backuping and restoring. In fact my backups has around 25MB. It is a problem with backing up. I found this thread but I absolutely don't understand how to fix it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=714114

devcager said:
I managed to flash Codename ROM again but it seems that my recovery has problem with backuping and restoring. In fact my backups has around 25MB. It is a problem with backing up. I found this thread but I absolutely don't understand how to fix it. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=714114
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this has been covered in several threads.
the newer version of CWM (6.x +) create BLOBS and use a combination of BLOBS and your backup data to perform backups and restores.
if you deleted the BLOB folder from clockworkmod directory, that would be your problem. stating that you think the reason your backups are broken because of the filesize is just plain wrong.
also, md5 mismatch usually has to do with having invalid spaces or characters in the backup name.

Pirateghost said:
this has been covered in several threads.
the newer version of CWM (6.x +) create BLOBS and use a combination of BLOBS and your backup data to perform backups and restores.
if you deleted the BLOB folder from clockworkmod directory, that would be your problem. stating that you think the reason your backups are broken because of the filesize is just plain wrong.
also, md5 mismatch usually has to do with having invalid spaces or characters in the backup name.
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In fact I do not know what BLOB folder is so I suppose I did not delete it. i did not even give my names to the backups. Sooo... what shall I do? I mean, I have wiped out the ROM and now getting everything back from scratch but I think I won't be able to make backups Thanks

Try the non touch versions of cwm or twrp.
Sent from my i9250

bk201doesntexist said:
Try the non touch versions of cwm or twrp.
Sent from my i9250
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Thanks, man! That helps. Pushing thanks button

failed to mount /system structure needs cleaning

Hi,
I have this kind error after restoring nandroid backup?
Any fix advice?
I tried substractum theme, then it messed up something and everything freezes. Then i went in twrp and flashed substract recivery zip but sill everything was still strange. Then i dexided restore my 2 days old nandroid backup and I get this kind of error.
I have rooted. 5.0.4.
Right now i have this recovered nandroid backup and looks like everything is working but why this error.
I got same error when i flash kernel (structure needs cleaning), like in picture

Mairo said:
Hi,
I have this kind error after restoring nandroid backup?
Any fix advice?
I tried substractum theme, then it messed up something and everything freezes. Then i went in twrp and flashed substract recivery zip but sill everything was still strange. Then i dexided restore my 2 days old nandroid backup and I get this kind of error.
I have rooted. 5.0.4.
Right now i have this recovered nandroid backup and looks like everything is working but why this error.
I got same error when i flash kernel (structure needs cleaning), like in picture
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Hey bud,
I had the same issue when restoring my nandroid backup and I fixed it by doing the following:
1. Wipe the system partition only
2. Remount it as 'ext 4'
3. Restore the system partition from your nandroid backup
If that doesn't work then try a different version of TWRP (Standard, Blu or codworkx)
Edit: I've seen some people asking some more questions surrounding this issue. For newer devices with A/B partitions I'm unsure what to do in most of these cases.
'Magellon1991' posted their findings regarding the 'vendor' and 'system' partitions.
As for anything further, this is beyond my knowledge - I simply stumbled across this initial solution by trial and error and it is likely a little outdated by now.
Best of luck!

Ok. I will try it later.
Edit: looks like it fixed problem. So thaks BenisMusical!

BenisMusical said:
Hey bud,
I had the same issue when restoring my nandroid backup and I fixed it by doing the following:
1. Wipe the system partition only
2. Remount it as ext 4
3. Restore the system partition from your nandroid backup
If that doesn't work then try a different version of TWRP (Standard, Blu or codworkx)
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Thanks so much for posting this. Only fix I found that actually worked

Work in ZX1
Shaneee said:
Thanks so much for posting this. Only fix I found that actually worked
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But not at once. First, the format of the "system" and "vendor" sections, after restoring only the "system" and "vendor", and then the "image and image systems and image vendor", and then restoring the OEM, otherwise it was a bootlope without OEM

BenisMusical said:
Hey bud,
I had the same issue when restoring my nandroid backup and I fixed it by doing the following:
1. Wipe the system partition only
2. Remount it as ext 4
3. Restore the system partition from your nandroid backup
If that doesn't work then try a different version of TWRP (Standard, Blu or codworkx)
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Same issue occuring for me. I have tried restoring multiple backups but same error every time. I can boot into the system by flashing the rom file and then restoring the data. But why cant i restore TWRP backup??

BenisMusical said:
Hey bud,
I had the same issue when restoring my nandroid backup and I fixed it by doing the following:
1. Wipe the system partition only
2. Remount it as ext 4
3. Restore the system partition from your nandroid backup
If that doesn't work then try a different version of TWRP (Standard, Blu or codworkx)
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Awesome post, thanks a lot.
It worked perfectly.

This was lifesaver!

I did what BenisMusical recommended. Additionally I have to flash the last image. Without there was the boot loop...

BenisMusical said:
Hey bud,
I had the same issue when restoring my nandroid backup and I fixed it by doing the following:
1. Wipe the system partition only
2. Remount it as ext 4
3. Restore the system partition from your nandroid backup
If that doesn't work then try a different version of TWRP (Standard, Blu or codworkx)
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Logged in just to say thank you. Did what you told down to the letter, and I got my data back. Thanks again!

i have a error failed to mount cust (structure need cleaning)
how to fix this?

BenisMusical said:
Hey bud,
I had the same issue when restoring my nandroid backup and I fixed it by doing the following:
1. Wipe the system partition only
2. Remount it as ext 4
3. Restore the system partition from your nandroid backup
If that doesn't work then try a different version of TWRP (Standard, Blu or codworkx)
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Benis,
I'm a Crisis Counselor.
I need my rooted Note 9 for house visits.
I am SOL without my phone 'cause I can't navigate/make phone calls.
I am in your debt. Anything you need, I will get you...
Actually, I can't go that far, but I want to give you a heartfelt THANK YOU, and a firm, anti-COVID, handshake.
Thanks Pal.

Didn't work for me sadly. I use Treble and I just restored data, flashed the original vendor zip and system.img (Not the one from the backup - as well as magisk) and it worked again.

BenisMusical said:
Hey bud,
I had the same issue when restoring my nandroid backup and I fixed it by doing the following:
1. Wipe the system partition only
2. Remount it as 'ext 4'
3. Restore the system partition from your nandroid backup
If that doesn't work then try a different version of TWRP (Standard, Blu or codworkx)
Edit: I've seen some people asking some more questions surrounding this issue. For newer devices with A/B partitions I'm unsure what to do in most of these cases.
'Magellon1991' posted their findings regarding the 'vendor' and 'system' partitions.
As for anything further, this is beyond my knowledge - I simply stumbled across this initial solution by trial and error and it is likely a little outdated by now.
Best of luck!
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absolute legend worked for me