Before I swapped out phones I ran a TI backup and then saved it on external sd card. Now I got new sgs3 and copied that folder to /sdcard/TitaniumBackup but TI Backup is not seeing it properly and doesnt give me that backup to restore. What am I doing wrong?
hard to say. are you backups not showing up? if so, did you check that TB is pointing to the folder on your sdcard? go in prefs and change backup folder then do detect and whole device. see if any other folders show up there. of course make sure you are rooted. igf your backups are showing up but just not restoring then you could have any number of issues.
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I'm about to switch Roms but want to know how do you backup the data ie Titanium backup, pics etc....
I mounted the Nexus to my pc, backed up the nandroid, pics, but for some reason can't see the Titanium Backup folder, I can see it on my phone, but can't see the folder when i mount.
Any info?
Thanks!
Have you installed Titanium Backup from the Market yet?
One of the lovely things about MTP... Download an app called SDrescan from the market which will force the Android media server to rescan files on the virtual sd. This will allow the phone to index any file changes and then they will show up on your computer.
Also as an FYI doing a wipe from CWM will not erase the contents in your virtual sd card. Although it's good to backup the contents in there to your PC anyway.
Thanks Silow!! That is the answer I need!
Hi,
I have been using revolutionary-0.4pre4 Backup and Restore and it works fine. But every backup takes a lot of space in my SD. How can I deleted one backup without affecting the others?
Best regards and thanks!
they are saved in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup
each backup will be contained in its own folder, listed by date if it's the same recovery flashed when you used revolutionary.
to save even more space on your sd, i would recommend moving the entire folders and saving the last few somewhere safe on your PC. if you're even more paranoid you could even back them up online to dropbox/box/google drive. it's much safer to have a few recent nandroid backups just in case
to restore, simple copy the entire folders back into /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup
(a minor point if you rename your nandroid folders, don't put any spaces in them otherwise i don't think they restore)
After several tries, I finally successfully installed Cyanogenmod 10.2 on my Rogers Samsung Galaxy S3 for the first time. Unfortunately, Titanium Backup can't find the files to restore app+data. I've gone to Preferences > Backup folder location to detect where the backup is...and it says it's empty.
The weird thing is, when I'm in Clockwork Recovery mode and browse through the folders, the folder structure is identical to before I installed the ROM. Like I see the folder I stored the .zip files in, my photo folders, and a lot of other folders. But when I browse through the File Manager on the phone or when it's plugged into the computer, that stuff doesn't exist.
I'm not really too knowledgeable in this sorta thing, but I've rooted/installed new ROMs on my old Galaxy S before and successfully restored apps+data using Titanium Backup. I'm not too sure what's happening here
Did wiping data during the installation delete the backup too? My photos are gone as well (this didn't happen on the Galaxy S...), I don't mind though since I already backed it all up on my computer, but it's still surprising.
Any help to restore my apps and data is much appreciated!!
[PS: During the setup, Google can also restore apps that it backed up for me...but I've tried this and it only restores the apps and not the data...so I'm really hoping Titanium Backup will do that for me]
If I recall, CM changes the sdcard locations. So say before CM you had sdcard (internal) then extsdcard (external). I believe CM creates an sdcard 0 and 1. Try looking in both places. Good luck.
pre4speed said:
If I recall, CM changes the sdcard locations. So say before CM you had sdcard (internal) then extsdcard (external). I believe CM creates an sdcard 0 and 1. Try looking in both places. Good luck.
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Ya I couldn't find the backup in sdcard0. I should also mention that I made the mistake of storing it in internal, rather than external (sdcard1). The folders within sdcard0 is what it would look like on a new phone...
Anyways, I'm determined to find out how to recover it because it's in the phone SOMEWHERE because the folder structure still exists when I'm in Clockwork Recovery.
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Ya I couldn't find the backup in sdcard0. I should also mention that I made the mistake of storing it in internal, rather than external (sdcard1). The folders within sdcard0 is what it would look like on a new phone...
Anyways, I determined to find out how to recover it because it's in the phone SOMEWHERE because the folder structure still exists when I'm in Clockwork Recovery.
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Menu, preferences, backup folder location, search whole device it will find then use current folder it will then restart and you're set
louvass said:
Menu, preferences, backup folder location, search whole device it will find then use current folder it will then restart and you're set
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I did that many times already. It says 'No backup location was found'...
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I did that many times already. It says 'No backup location was found'...
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I'm having the exact same problem. Has this problem been solved?
Some help desperately needed here! Thanks!
This could all depend on if you backed everything up on your device or SD card? If internal then I want to say the AOSP rom will not recognize anything from stock. However if you stored all those files on the external SD card and all lose your data, then there is an issue.
Suggestion: flash stock and see if it all comes back. If so then move all data to external SD card. Flash AOSP rom then it will all be there. Let me know how it works out
I recently moved my Nandroid backup to my PC to free up space on my phone. Now, once I place it in BACKUPS in TWRP it doesn't show up when I go to restore it. I'm not sure what it is I'm missing. Could someone help me with this?
You may be missing the folder in the backups folder. I think it's usually the serial number of your phone? Easiest way to create it again would be to back up your current boot.img or something small. Then move the backup from your PC to the folder that backup is in. You know what I mean?
Yep that's it. In the backups folder there is another folder that has the backups in it. It is the same as your serial number.
I couldn't restore the backup I made from my sdcard. I kept getting 'can't find backup.img' error or something. Anyway, I still have the ~2gb backup with files like "cache.ext4.tar", "data.ext4.tar", etc. I just want to get my contacts' phone numbers, and find out what theme I was using. I already reinstalled everything. Is this possible? If so, how?
I would also like to restore my firefox profile if possible.
Are you using the same recovery? Have you moved the backup? It should be in sdcard/twrp/backups/ "serial number"/name of backup. If its having trouble finding it, you can move it to internal storage. Put it in the backups folder for twrp on internal.
You can extract apps from a backup, but not contacts or accounts. If you keep your contacts synced to Google they will always come back when you log in.