I recently rooted my GS3 (I previously rooted my evo 4G, and GS2, so I am experienced in rooting / flashing), and installed the latest CWM 6.0.1.2
It's been working fine and I flashed CM10 without any issues.
However, I just noticed that in the clockworkmod directory on my phone, under backup, it's only about 22mb each. Previously all my phones would have nandroid backup around 600-900 mb!!!!
I read that they changed how the backup works, and it's more incremental now, but it still doesn't sound right. Or is it? Or is there a different folder that keeps the full backup while these are incremental backups??
please let me know
thanks
Jb and cm 10 should be around 110-165 some where in there give or take some but 22 is way not right
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I believe things were changed as far as how backups are done. Look for a blobs folded in your backup folder. Should be significantly larger
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Hello I was just wondering if I could make a flashable zip file for cwm, that could make a backup and then restore that backup?? Is there already one of these??
What exactly do you mean by this? Backup Data or make a full nandroid backup? Nandroid backup is built into Clockworkmod, on the front screen. For backing up data with a flashable zip, alot of roms have this functionality built in when you update versions. Moving from one rom to another however, its best to use a program like titanium backup to do this, since backing up data in its entirety and flashing it back makes problems. No two roms are exactly alike, and if just a little bit of that data transferred over is incompatible with the new rom, you're going to get force closes all over.
There was the old Bonsai script which now fails on half the phones. I believe because it was dependent on a version of busybox and a lot of us updated that. Toadlife was working on a newer tar backup and restore but not sure if he finished.
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kennyglass123 said:
There was the old Bonsai script which now fails on half the phones. I believe because it was dependent on a version of busybox and a lot of us updated that. Toadlife was working on a newer tar backup and restore but not sure if he finished.
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The conversion script by chris41g that changes your file system makes a backup that you can restore don't know if that helps any....
Reread the question and yes there is a script that can be ran as a flashable to make a backup but it gets stored into your cwm folder its not like the script will restore if you flash it again if that's what you want
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Hello. I'm running clockwork mod touch v 5.8.4.7 and when I backup any rom it names the backup 1970.**.** I know that cwm v6 is out, however I prefer cwm v5 (I feel as though on my gnex the nandroids took loads longer to backup and restore. And also prefer the old backup method as opposes to the new one.) So here are my questions. 1)has anyone else encountered this bug. And 2)is there a different cwm version that's either newer but not v6 that doesn't have this bug?
I'm pretty sure this is a known bug which doesn't have a solution for the time being. What you can do is backup through Rom Manager; this way you can name the file whatever you want.
Davidion said:
I'm pretty sure this is a known bug which doesn't have a solution for the time being. What you can do is backup through Rom Manager; this way you can name the file whatever you want.
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Thank you I forgot about that :laugh:
Or try TWRP. It's WAY better in my opinion, but to each his own of course. Just a suggestion.
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Your question has been answered, but I would like to add two things:
ROM Manager can name backup folders for you, however, the datestamp on that folder and the included files will still say 1970. You can always rename the folder manually, also.
I was depressed about CWM's new backup methods with v6 as well. At least until I learned that it still has support for the old "full backup" method. I really detest incremental backups for many reasons. In my opinion, tar should be the default option.
To re-enable full backup mode with CWM v6, navigate to:
backup and restore > choose backup format > tar.
This setting saves, by the way. It stores in /sdcard/clockworkmod/.default_backup_format. This file contains the text "tar".
There is zero reason not to use v6 over v5. You can store backups on your extSD now. The only thing I don't like about it is total lack of UI organization. It is a total mess, but I love it anyhow.
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Or try TWRP. It's WAY better in my opinion, but to each his own of course. Just a suggestion.
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I heard trwp keeps you from losing your imei. Not sure if its true or not. But I switched just in case
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I heard trwp keeps you from losing your imei. Not sure if its true or not. But I switched just in case
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No, it's just that the only people that have lost their IMEI have mostly been using CWM.
I recently used the toolkit to unlock and root my device, and I installed CM10 on it. I've been having hardware issues so I was going to replace my phone, but the nandroid backups that this version of Clockwork makes are extremely small, and fail when I try to restore. Someone in another thread said it also uses the files in the other folder (blops? blubs? something), so do I move the entire thing? I'm slightly confused over it. Thanks!
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I just rooted today, and everything went alright (as far as I know). I wanted to download a ROM, so I backed up and it went fine. I downloaded the 1/1 nightly build for the CyanogenMod, but I got stuck at the boot screen, so I restored my backup, and tried 12/31. Again I had issues (this time there was something about setups going wrong once I got past the boot screen). I restored my backup and it went fine this time as well. Then I found the 10.0 stable version, and everything went fine, except this time everything was default and none of my previous settings were retained, nor my apps. I attempted to restore again, but now it says:
Couldn't open directory.
No files found.
I'm completely new to everything about this, so a lot of terminology I've found in related help threads has flown over my head. I followed the instructions in qbking77's cyanogenmod installation video. (I'd link this, but I can't because of the spam policy on these forums).
Now I'm wondering if it's possible to restore the files I previously let in my internal sdcard. It'd be awesome if I got some help with this issue, and thanks in advance.
Flashing cm 10.1 or any 4.2 rom moves your internal storage to the 0 folder. There is tons of info about it around here.
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Flashing cm 10.1 or any 4.2 rom moves your internal storage to the 0 folder. There is tons of info about it around here.
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Could you provide me with said info? As I said, I'm technologically illiterate and the help would be appreciated.
This is probably the most straight forward explanation I have seen.
http://teamw.in/androidmultiuser
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This is probably the most straight forward explanation I have seen.
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Thanks a lot! Follow-up question: how exactly can I apply this knowledge? I've located said folder, but I'm unsure of where to proceed from here.
So are you trying f to restore data from another backup? The no directory coming from your Recovery? Which recovery you using? Also for the future, if you are i treated in. Arrting over data for all you apps with CM builds, you should look into buying Titanium Backup. Little pricey, but after 3 years, I still use everyday (so do most people here)
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So are you trying f to restore data from another backup? The no directory coming from your Recovery? Which recovery you using? Also for the future, if you are i treated in. Arrting over data for all you apps with CM builds, you should look into buying Titanium Backup. Little pricey, but after 3 years, I still use everyday (so do most people here)
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I previous lay backed up on CWM, before my 3 attempts at downloading the Cyanogen mod. When I attempt to recover from my internal sdcard, it says that the files can't be found or that the sdcard can't be mounted. I had previously downloaded the free version of that, I believe, but I was following the instructions an aforementioned video, which said to use CWM.
Never mind, I've fixed the problem by moving all the contents of the 0 folder into the main phone folder. Thanks!
New problem: is there a way to download the ROM without all my data being erased?
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New problem: is there a way to download the ROM without all my data being erased?
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Well you can backup your data and restore afterwards (use Tianium Backup for this), but the thing is that funky issues come up when you do that. Especially if its across different android versions (ics to jb, etc). I would suggest to just reinput what you can and only restore things like SMS, Calendar events (if not synced), etc, only small things like that
I got a Stock rom MA7, rooted w/ CWM GN2.
I did a Nand Backup to install a rom, before I installed the ROM I went to check the file size and it read 12.31 MB.
My question is, is this normal?, I reinstalled the stock rom twice and that's a 1.3 GB file, so I can't believe that a nand backup was so small in size.
I asked my buddy to do a backup on his AT&T version, and his was 17 MB file, how can a backup file be so small.
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I got a Stock rom MA7, rooted w/ CWM GN2.
I did a Nand Backup to install a rom, before I installed the ROM I went to check the file size and it read 12.31 MB.
My question is, is this normal?, I reinstalled the stock rom twice and that's a 1.3 GB file, so I can't believe that a nand backup was so small in size.
I asked my buddy to do a backup on his AT&T version, and his was 17 MB file, how can a backup file be so small.
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Check to see if you are backing up the whole rom and not just data or cache or something.
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Check to see if you are backing up the whole rom and not just data or cache or something.
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Sorry either you aren't checking the right files or your backup isn't selecting everything. I use TWRP but doesn't matter my Nands are usually about 4GB (but keep in mind I have a LOT of apps installed.) Most fresh installs would be similar to your installer .zip so around 1-1.5GB for nands minimum (unless you are using compression but you'll still only drop 20% or so file size.)
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Sorry either you aren't checking the right files or your backup isn't selecting everything. I use TWRP but doesn't matter my Nands are usually about 4GB (but keep in mind I have a LOT of apps installed.) Most fresh installs would be similar to your installer .zip so around 1-1.5GB for nands minimum (unless you are using compression but you'll still only drop 20% or so file size.)
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I figured I should be getting at least a gig, I've never really used TWRP, I like CWM so I stuck with that. Could either recovery make the phone not do a full nand bu?
Cwm also uses a blog file. It splits the backup up into two different folders. Check for a blog folder. This is where tje majority of the backup exists.
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Cwm also uses a blog file. It splits the backup up into two different folders. Check for a blog folder. This is where tje majority of the backup exists.
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I can't find a blog folder, but there is a "blobs" folder with 100's of small folders in it.
Should I change my Recovery to TWRP?
Blob is what he meant. Probably autocorrected
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Blob is what he meant. Probably autocorrected
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Yes thats it. Thats the folder. Damn auto correct.
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