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Few questions on using Titanium back up on GNEX.

I've used Titanium to do my back-ups on my old Galaxy Vibrant, so I have a general understanding of how it works. My question is this though, when I did back-ups in the past, they were saved to the SD card (I think), but the GNEX doesn't have an SD card. So if I do a back-up, won't the back-up I just made get erased when I wipe data before flashing a new ROM? Also, what about my pictures, will they get erased? I have hundreds of pictures on my phone, maybe even over 1000 TBH. I don't want to have to reload everything again. And last, does Titanium back-up your progress in games? I seem to remember that it does, but I don't remember for sure.
Any guides out there for doing Titanium back-ups on the Gnex? Why didn't those silly people just give us an sd card slot

ok even though it does not have a physically removable sd card it still does not get wiped when flashing roms and wiping the data cache partition. only if you do a factory data reset from the phone's settings. I've never needed to do that so dont worry i have 1000's of pics too. I'd back em up just in case on your laptop for safe measure though anyways. also when you backup th apps it does not save game progress unless you backup the app's data. then it should save preferences and progress and all that good stuff. Thank me if it helps!!

Ok, another thing I just thought of. After I flash the new ROM and enter my email, the phone is going to start automatically downloading all my apps, obviously I don't want to do that since I'm going to restore them with Titanium. How do I turn off the auto-downloading of apps?

After I flash the new ROM and enter my email, the phone is going to start automatically downloading all my apps
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No it won't. It only restores your apps if you decide to not turn off the "restore my apps and settings" option. It's on by default, simply turn it off after you've entered your Gmail account. It's the next or the second screen after you logged into your Gmail account.

Ok, now my phone doesn't want to mount when I connect it to my computer. It charges, it just won't mount. ftw....

Hotstuff5964 said:
Ok, now my phone doesn't want to mount when I connect it to my computer. It charges, it just won't mount. ftw....
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Not sure about the mount issue but I will tell you to definitely leave the auto restore on and let the market automatically download your apps after a wipe. You want to do this because it will automatically install the apps where as titanium will take forever and you have to manually tap install. Then once the apps are installed go to titanium and just backup so data only which is you game progress and preferences and such. I found this out the hard way lol
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In my experience, the restore and wipe cache (maybe wipe data too) only clean the system/ or /cache, and leave the sdcard/ untouched. So the data backup by Titanium back-ups should work rightly.
BTW, I have some problem about using Titanium back-ups. If I always want to keep the newest backup of both application and system data, are the any useful script?
Although there's a script could backup the new application that installed after last backup, but what about the new system app/data? Because sometimes I may have change ROM and it will add some new system app/data.
So far, I use the script that backup all the system/application data. But I wonder it may leave duplicate backup to some app, that's the condition I want to avoid.
Any idea?

Question about Nand Backup.....

I made a Nand back up when I first rooted my Epic 4g Touch, and unfortunately that is the only Nand Back up I had saved.....I flashed the Blend ICS Rom and had a lot of problems with it so I decided to start fresh and restore that Nand back up.....My question is....would restoring that Nand back up erase everything I had in my USBSTORAGE folder?? I had a folder of pics in my usbstorage because when you save pictures there they do not come up in the picture gallery....but some time between that nand back up and flashing the ICS ROM that folder got emptied and I have no idea where those files went grrrrr

restoring nand never deleted or effected anything stored on external USB for me. hopefully you didn't format SD. if not, try connecting to a computer and browsing your device that way.

If you saved the pics to the internal sd, you should be fine. I nandroid restore from ics to gb and back many times and the contents in my internal sd stays untouched.

gershee said:
restoring nand never deleted or effected anything stored on external USB for me. hopefully you didn't format SD. if not, try connecting to a computer and browsing your device that way.
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I did connect it to my laptop and heres the problem lol before that nandroid restore and before going to ICS.....when I plugged into my laptop 3 storages would come up 1) phone 2)usb storage and 3) sd card and I was able to browse them all, but now plugged in to my laptop, only thing that comes up is 1)phone 2) card .....and its confusing cuz if I go to settings and storage, all 3 are there but whe nI try to click on something in usbstorage from there my setting foreclose...... its making it seem like it never existed, or Im going nuts lol I just dont know

Maybe reinstall the drivers? Or mount through adb??

Whenever you connect your phone to PC as USB storage, be sure that you go Settings > Wireless and network > More... > USB utilities in ICS ROM.
With USB cable unplugged, click on 'connect storage to PC' and connect your USB cable to phone.
One more thing that you need to know is, be sure that you use the original usb cable. Sometimes, different usb cable something like LG USB for Samsung Phone, it does not work on data communication. It looks like it works at first time but when you do something, it lose the connection and reset.
Backing up everything (important data) using this method is the best way ensuring your data is 'there'. For me, I frequently back up my nandroid backups into my pc's harddisk. Also, this is the fastest way to copy or move data if the data size is really back.

To play it safe, you should odin back to gingerbread first, then nand restore.

im0rtalz said:
To play it safe, you should odin back to gingerbread first, then nand restore.
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I nand back to blazer just to video record. It only takes less than 5 minutes. Then band back. I've done this at least 20 times with no issue.
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If want to access your external without flashing you could use the card adapter that came with the phone and put it in the computer if you have a card reader.

kobridge said:
Whenever you connect your phone to PC as USB storage, be sure that you go Settings > Wireless and network > More... > USB utilities in ICS ROM.
With USB cable unplugged, click on 'connect storage to PC' and connect your USB cable to phone.
One more thing that you need to know is, be sure that you use the original usb cable. Sometimes, different usb cable something like LG USB for Samsung Phone, it does not work on data communication. It looks like it works at first time but when you do something, it lose the connection and reset.
Backing up everything (important data) using this method is the best way ensuring your data is 'there'. For me, I frequently back up my nandroid backups into my pc's harddisk. Also, this is the fastest way to copy or move data if the data size is really back.
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This definitely worked! thanks bro! Only wish I figured out how to access those files from the phone now...... but at least they are still there !

im0rtalz said:
To play it safe, you should odin back to gingerbread first, then nand restore.
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+1 there have been some issues reported about flashing from ICS to GB. After you get your files transferred I'd do the Odin restore and then auto root with sfhub's tool. Then restore your apps and data with Titanium or MyBackup.
Good luck!

rwilco12 said:
+1 there have been some issues reported about flashing from ICS to GB. After you get your files transferred I'd do the Odin restore and then auto root with sfhub's tool. Then restore your apps and data with Titanium or MyBackup.
Good luck!
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How do you transfer NAND backups stored on the internal memory to the external SD card?
Sprint GS3 running AOKP. Came from CM10 stable. AOKP is too buggy.

Copy the whole clockwork mod folder over.
sent from MY BAD A$$ ET4G

Right but which Clockworkmod folder? What's the directory for internal memory?
I'm using the Sprint Galaxy S3, and I have ES File Explorer and GridSize Free. Whenever I run GridSize it says the largest folders/files I have are "blobs" too. Am I copying these over too?
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adamryanx said:
Right but which Clockworkmod folder? What's the directory for internal memory?
I'm using the Sprint Galaxy S3, and I have ES File Explorer and GridSize Free. Whenever I run GridSize it says the largest folders/files I have are "blobs" too. Am I copying these over too?
Sent from my SPH-L710 using xda app-developers app
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Hoping you know you're asking in the E4GT forum so I'd really hate someone to give you an answer that'll screw ya up.. (Although moving is the correct answer)
Since you're having issues, I'd go to your forum area to ask. Also, there's the handy toolkit for ya.
This is for the S3 - http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1746680
Specifically, that tool kit can do this - Perform a FULL NANDROID Backup of your system via adb and save in Custom Recovery format on your PC

Internal if your on twiz is either sdcard or sdcard0 and microsd is ExtSDCard. AOSP should be labeled similar but I can't guarantee that.
I like to break stuff!

Cannot access internal storage to make a backup

Hi guys,
After a long break of messing with my phone, I decided to try to root my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III again. My apologies in advance for this wall of a post.
I'm on Android 4.4.2 on a stock ROM. I do not have an SD card so I am purely using the 16GB internal memory.
Backed up all of my stuff using MyBackup Pro (oh, the regret...), then copied the backed up files - the .zip (Data_2014_12_13.zip) containing all of the personal data like texts, MMS, call log, etc. as well as the folder (AppsMedia_2014_12_14) containing all of my apps, music, videos, and photos - to my PC as I planned on wiping the phone and doing a factory reset.
Followed a video on YouTube to root (the Get High on Android guy that runs galaxys3root.com) and had problems with it, so I followed another one that addressed the issue I was having. Used Odin3 v1.85, "CF-Auto-Root-d2spr-d2spr-sphl710.tar.md5", "openrecovery-twrp-2.7.1.0-d2spr.tar", and "UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.13.zip" to root and it went off without a hitch. Wiped the phone and did a factory reset at this point. Verified root using Root Checker and Titanium Backup and both verified I was rooted. Tried out a bunch of different apps and all showed root access.
Downloaded MyBackup Pro again to try to restore everything. It requests SU permissions and I grant them. Transferred the old backup files over to the phone again and placed them in the correct directory, but MBP isn't recognizing them and doesn't see any backups of data or apps/pics/etc. So I create a backup of the one text I have on the phone and backup one app just to verify everything was in the correct folder and it was. MBP recognized the backup I had just created. Tried to move apps from the old backup folder into the new one next to the one I had just backed up and MBP didn't see it was there. Did the same thing with transferring the picture folder and still nothing.
Decided to do yet another wipe at this point. Problem is, now when I use MBP or Titanium Backup to try to make backups, it shows the directories as inaccessible. In MBP, I get
MBP said:
Error during Backup: unknown error (code 14): Could not open database
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If I go into the options, the default local storage location is "/storage/emulated/0". If I try to change it to anything else or even leave it as is and hit "Select directory", it gives me an error stating:
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Could not write to the path selected.
Note: ONLY Andorid 4.4 (KitKat) removes the ability to access the SD card, Android 5+ has added support again. if you are using Android 4.4 the only way to access the SD card is 1-Root your phone, 2-Install SDFix app from the market.
Android 5+ users, the dialog to select the path does not show the SD card by default, you need to "Unhide SD card" from the dialog's Menu.
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At this point, I downloaded NextApp SDFix hoping it would somehow affect internal memory even though it's for SD cards, but no dice.
I load up Titanium Backup. "Root access" has a green check mark and tapping it shows I have BusyBox 1.19.4-Titanium from app and YES for SQLite with SQLite 3.7.6.3-Titanium included.
However, "Backup directory" has a red X and says not available. Trying to press the note with check mark at the top right of TiBu yields the error:
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The current backup location ("storage/emulated/legacy/TitaniumBackup") cannot be accessed.
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When trying to change the backup location, every folder shows a red folder at the top saying "This folder is not writable."
Does anyone have any idea what to do here? I've tried searching and it looks like people have been either having similar problems that worked themselves out by just rebooting (tried it many, many times), reinstalling the backup apps (also tried many times), wiping the phone (did full wipes and factory resets through TWRP), or they were actually talking about external storage (I'm on internal).
All I really care about are getting my texts and pictures back at this point. Unfortunately MBP stores pictures and videos as its own special format and I can't open them on my computer. Same with texts. Can anyone give me any kind of guidance here please?

NextName said:
Hi guys,
After a long break of messing with my phone, I decided to try to root my Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III again. My apologies in advance for this wall of a post.
I'm on Android 4.4.2 on a stock ROM. I do not have an SD card so I am purely using the 16GB internal memory.
Backed up all of my stuff using MyBackup Pro (oh, the regret...), then copied the backed up files - the .zip (Data_2014_12_13.zip) containing all of the personal data like texts, MMS, call log, etc. as well as the folder (AppsMedia_2014_12_14) containing all of my apps, music, videos, and photos - to my PC as I planned on wiping the phone and doing a factory reset.
Followed a video on YouTube to root (the Get High on Android guy that runs galaxys3root.com) and had problems with it, so I followed another one that addressed the issue I was having. Used Odin3 v1.85, "CF-Auto-Root-d2spr-d2spr-sphl710.tar.md5", "openrecovery-twrp-2.7.1.0-d2spr.tar", and "UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.13.zip" to root and it went off without a hitch. Wiped the phone and did a factory reset at this point. Verified root using Root Checker and Titanium Backup and both verified I was rooted. Tried out a bunch of different apps and all showed root access.
Downloaded MyBackup Pro again to try to restore everything. It requests SU permissions and I grant them. Transferred the old backup files over to the phone again and placed them in the correct directory, but MBP isn't recognizing them and doesn't see any backups of data or apps/pics/etc. So I create a backup of the one text I have on the phone and backup one app just to verify everything was in the correct folder and it was. MBP recognized the backup I had just created. Tried to move apps from the old backup folder into the new one next to the one I had just backed up and MBP didn't see it was there. Did the same thing with transferring the picture folder and still nothing.
Decided to do yet another wipe at this point. Problem is, now when I use MBP or Titanium Backup to try to make backups, it shows the directories as inaccessible. In MBP, I get
If I go into the options, the default local storage location is "/storage/emulated/0". If I try to change it to anything else or even leave it as is and hit "Select directory", it gives me an error stating:
At this point, I downloaded NextApp SDFix hoping it would somehow affect internal memory even though it's for SD cards, but no dice.
I load up Titanium Backup. "Root access" has a green check mark and tapping it shows I have BusyBox 1.19.4-Titanium from app and YES for SQLite with SQLite 3.7.6.3-Titanium included.
However, "Backup directory" has a red X and says not available. Trying to press the note with check mark at the top right of TiBu yields the error:
When trying to change the backup location, every folder shows a red folder at the top saying "This folder is not writable."
Does anyone have any idea what to do here? I've tried searching and it looks like people have been either having similar problems that worked themselves out by just rebooting (tried it many, many times), reinstalling the backup apps (also tried many times), wiping the phone (did full wipes and factory resets through TWRP), or they were actually talking about external storage (I'm on internal).
All I really care about are getting my texts and pictures back at this point. Unfortunately MBP stores pictures and videos as its own special format and I can't open them on my computer. Same with texts. Can anyone give me any kind of guidance here please?
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well...if you back up everything with your Google account you just have to log back in after you Odin the stock firmware again....the only things Google won't backup are app data and phone calls/text messages but all your apps and contacts will restore.....i never use TB or any other backup app just the standard Google backup

6th_Hokage said:
well...if you back up everything with your Google account you just have to log back in after you Odin the stock firmware again....the only things Google won't backup are app data and phone calls/text messages but all your apps and contacts will restore.....i never use TB or any other backup app just the standard Google backup
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Yeah... as stated, the only thing I'm really worried about are texts, calls, pictures, etc. I don't care about the apps and I already have contacts and everything synced with my Google account.

NextName said:
Yeah... as stated, the only thing I'm really worried about are texts, calls, pictures, etc. I don't care about the apps and I already have contacts and everything synced with my Google account.
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well picture's will also back up with Google....

6th_Hokage said:
well picture's will also back up with Google....
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Stupidly forgot about Dropbox. Looks like all pictures are saved. Thank you for reminding me.
Texts are now still a large priority to get back. I have messages from a deceased family member and significant other I'd really like to hold onto and I feel like such an idiot for not backing up earlier. Some 40k texts I backed up when I tried to back up my stuff.
As a small, possibly insignificant update though...
Hooked the phone up to my computer and my computer still reads all of the files fine and I can still transfer files to and from perfectly. I tried setting up the MBP folders again and adding the data backup in to see if it would allow me to restore that backup.
MBP recognized the data backup (the single .zip file containing all texts and data) but wouldn't let me view the contents or restore them. Instead, I get:
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I/O error: Unable to write to SD Card. Make sure the SD Card is inserted properly, is not connected to your PC, and is not full.
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The phone is neither connected to my PC nor even close to full (11GB of free space remaining) and I don't have an SD card at all and I'm not trying to write to it (at least not intentionally).
Edit: For poops and giggles, I'm going to try out the Wicked X 8 ROM. Already verified I'm on the ND8 bootloader and the download just finished so I'll try that.

Well, it's fixed now, I guess.
For poops and giggles I decided to try out Wicked X 8 and, after quite a bit of extra time spent because I'm an idiot and wiped the entire internal storage prior to flashing the ROM and requiring a sideload, I finally got the new ROM up and running.
I was very delighted to see when I started it up that Titanium could access the directory, as could MBP, and I'm currently going through a full restore right now. Has to restore around 40,000 texts so that'll take a while, but it appears to be going smoothly.

NextName said:
Well, it's fixed now, I guess.
For poops and giggles I decided to try out Wicked X 8 and, after quite a bit of extra time spent because I'm an idiot and wiped the entire internal storage prior to flashing the ROM and requiring a sideload, I finally got the new ROM up and running.
I was very delighted to see when I started it up that Titanium could access the directory, as could MBP, and I'm currently going through a full restore right now. Has to restore around 40,000 texts so that'll take a while, but it appears to be going smoothly.
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nice wicked x is a great rom too

40,000 texts to restore? What? Wow.

[Q] best backup app that syncs to the cloud?

If you have Titanium Backup, you know that it no longer lets you sync your backup to Google drive, and, on a phone like this, with no sd card, if you have to wipe your phone on a restore, that means no backups to restore..
What are you guys using for a full back up app that allows you to keep a complete copy of your back up on either google drive, One drive or any other cloud app?
Thanks!

wase4711 said:
If you have Titanium Backup, you know that it no longer lets you sync your backup to Google drive, and, on a phone like this, with no sd card, if you have to wipe your phone on a restore, that means no backups to restore..
What are you guys using for a full back up app that allows you to keep a complete copy of your back up on either google drive, One drive or any other cloud app?
Thanks!
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easy way I did was to use Titanium Backup once I was done backing up I simply hooked my phone gs6 edge to my pc copied the Titanium Backup backup file I made to my pc and done.....itll be there till I need it and I also just uploaded the backup to google drive as well
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If you have Titanium Backup, you know that it no longer lets you sync your backup to Google drive, and, on a phone like this, with no sd card, if you have to wipe your phone on a restore, that means no backups to restore..
What are you guys using for a full back up app that allows you to keep a complete copy of your back up on either google drive, One drive or any other cloud app?
Thanks!
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In TB do this:
Menu
Preferences
Enable dropbox
Dropbox settings, insert login/upload location, etc.
Exit to main TB screen
Schedules
Depending how you have things already scheduled, either modify one or create a new schedule
Under "When finished" select "Sync to Dropbox".

thanks; my dropbox is full, so I was hoping to use google drive, or one drive, where I have tons of room..
backing it up to the pc is probably the best thing to do now, but I am sure there are other backup programs that allow you to use the cloud to store the backup files to; titanium used to work, but after searching google for an answer, it seems like tons of folks are having the same issue

Question Best Backup Solution?

What is the best backup solution that can backup appdata and apps and system settings?

Google backup? I've been wondering this myself, but haven't found anything but Google's backup/restore. :|

For apps and their data, i suggest SwiftBackup. You connect it with your google account for cloud backup (paid) or create a local folder that you can tranfer to usb drive (free) and use it to restore back to your phone or any other device.
It also backs up call logs and messages and wifi networks.

jprattnu said:
Google backup? I've been wondering this myself, but haven't found anything but Google's backup/restore. :|
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Google backup doesn't backup all apps just Google apps just tried it.

IamTheBRAVE said:
For apps and their data, i suggest SwiftBackup. You connect it with your google account for cloud backup (paid) or create a local folder that you can tranfer to usb drive (free) and use it to restore back to your phone or any other device.
It also backs up call logs and messages and wifi networks.
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Thanks will try it out

I bricked/un-bricked my phone last night and successfully restored all apps and data with Migrate (NG version downloaded from their telegram channel). Not sure about system settings... I prefer a clean start with those so I didn't try.

IamTheBRAVE said:
For apps and their data, i suggest SwiftBackup. You connect it with your google account for cloud backup (paid) or create a local folder that you can tranfer to usb drive (free) and use it to restore back to your phone or any other device.
It also backs up call logs and messages and wifi networks.
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Migrate is also a viable solution. I had a problem with their sdcard enabler on another phone so used swiftbackup instead. Very satisfied.

vangry2020 said:
What is the best backup solution that can backup appdata and apps and system settings?
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The best I've seen(must be root) Swift Backup(Google play store). You can back up messages, call logs, and most importantly apps, app data, ext data, system apps, ext data. Awesome app and easy to sync to dropbox, drive, etc.

IamTheBRAVE said:
For apps and their data, i suggest SwiftBackup. You connect it with your google account for cloud backup (paid) or create a local folder that you can tranfer to usb drive (free) and use it to restore back to your phone or any other device.
It also backs up call logs and messages and wifi networks.
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Thanks for this - Question - Can you still get all app & ext data without being rooted? (Yes I'm a root idiot, sorry)!

IamTheBRAVE said:
Migrate is also a viable solution. I had a problem with their sdcard enabler on another phone so used swiftbackup instead. Very satisfied.
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I had issues with Migrate on an older phone as well (OP 7Pro) , but so far on this phone it has been solid.
Does anyone know of any apps that can do incremental backups of only modified data? I've used Swift Backup but it doesn't seem to be an option. Swift has an option to back up only "updated apps" but I could care less whether the apk was updated... I'd like something that can back up only apps with modified data on a nightly basis, the way I used to do with Titanium Backup on earlier versions of Android.

jprattnu said:
Thanks for this - Question - Can you still get all app & ext data without being rooted? (Yes I'm a root idiot, sorry)!
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No don't think so.

terlynn4 said:
I had issues with Migrate on an older phone as well (OP 7Pro) , but so far on this phone it has been solid.
Does anyone know of any apps that can do incremental backups of only modified data? I've used Swift Backup but it doesn't seem to be an option. Swift has an option to back up only "updated apps" but I could care less whether the apk was updated... I'd like something that can back up only apps with modified data on a nightly basis, the way I used to do with Titanium Backup on earlier versions of Android.
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Did not see any option for that in the app. You can do it manually by renaming theold backup folder and redoing existing backup option. I think that would work.

IamTheBRAVE said:
Did not see any option for that in the app. You can do it manually by renaming theold backup folder and redoing existing backup option. I think that would work.
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Wouldn't that just back up everything again? Or maybe I don't follow what you mean.

terlynn4 said:
Wouldn't that just back up everything again? Or maybe I don't follow what you mean.
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Yes, back up everything again but since you rename the old backup folder you end up with 2 incremental backup. At least that how i see it but it would be a pain to do that if you want nighly backups.
The only other idea may be to set a scheduled backup (paid). Just took a look, it say you can have customisable backups in premium (which i don't have) maybe someone can tell us what that contains?

IamTheBRAVE said:
Yes, back up everything again but since you rename the old backup folder you end up with 2 incremental backup. At least that how i see it but it would be a pain to do that if you want nighly backups.
The only other idea may be to set a scheduled backup (paid). Just took a look, it say you can have customisable backups in premium (which i don't have) maybe someone can tell us what that contains?
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You're talking about multiple backups, I'm talking about incremental/differential backups, where only modified data is backed up. The purpose is for smaller size and faster backups so they can be run daily or even multiple times a day. I save my backups to google drive and "all apps" is about 20 GB for me. It's insane to upload that much every single night when most of it hasn't changed, but I want my backups always up to date for the next time my phone is bricked unexpectedly. I do have premium, but the option to back up only modified data isn't there. I'm looking for an app that can do that, like Titanium Backup did flawlessly.