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.
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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)
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.
I had to have my note2 replaced I did a twrp backup placed it on new phone in the backup twrp folder but it is not recognized. Anyone have any possible solutions? Really all I'm after is game data that was backed up,and I'm not sure where to find that particular file in the backup thanks.
pretty sure u wouldnt wanna do a full nandroid restore of your partitions to another device... but as far as your game data goes.... you can use titanium backup to recover the apk and the game data by extracting from the nandroid backup file.
I've tried to do this before. It won't work.
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Hey,
I was on the same boat as u. I got it to work. I can remember the specifics at the moment but gist of it is that twrp creates a specific backup folder unique to each device. Open up an file browser and navigate over to where u have your backup. If theyre o. Your sd card it should be TWRP > BACKUPS > (Here u should find 2 folders with a bunch of random letters and numbers)
Those 2 folders are your backup folders. One was from your old device and the other is the folder twrp created for your new device.
When u reeboot into recovery, twrp wont recognize the old backup folder since it was unique to your old phone.
Long story short. Lol. Just go into the old folder from the file browser and copy the backup to the new back up folder.
After that, delete the old backup folder. Your backup should then show up when you boot into recovery.
As for which is the old and which is the new folder. My best bet is tbat the new folder is empty and the old folder has your backup.
Hope that helps.
Let me know if you need more help.
I bought a 16GB a few weeks back from Amazon. I noticed there were some dead pixels so I ordered a replacement. I want to clone the replacement to be exactly like the old one. Both tablets are rooted and have TWRP recoveries. I did a nandroid on the one I'm sending back. I copied the TWRP folder that contains the backup files to the new one. When I boot into recovery on the new one and click on restore, there isn't anything on the list to restore. I browsed the SD card and verified that there are things in the TWRP folder.
One thing I noticed in the backup folder, there is a folder with the serial number of the broken device. Since the serials are different could that be why the new one shows nothing? Do I need to rename the folder to the current serial number? I need help getting the backup to show up on the new device.
After the nandroid restore, I plan on running adb pull /sdcard/ \sdcard\ and plan to push the data back so that all my data is exactly the same since nandroid doesn't backup /sdcard.
Thanks!!
I'd rename the serial #s like you suggested.
You don't need to rename anything. Just copy your old folder (e.g. 2013-08-25--14-50-44) to /sdcard/TWRP/CurrentDeviceNumber/
I am stuck in a confusing situation I cant get out of and am in serious trouble.
My work Galaxy Tab Pro 8.4 LTE (T325), after more than 2 years of perfect service fell to the ground and broke in a million pieces this morning. I had CM11 on it and had done a TWRP backup just yesterday onto the external MiniSD Card. So, I went to a second hand shop phone shop in the afternoon and found another T325 just like mine in good shape with stock 4.4.2 Samsung TouchWiz ROM.. just white instead of white, but no matter. I immediately rooted it and flashed TWRP.. all good.
I booted into TWRP and first thing I did was to make a backup of the stock ROM to the internal SD Card and also the external MiniSD Card (just to be safe). But after I made the safety backup, when I went into restore, TWRP CANT find it the old backup of my other Tab on the external MiniSD Card. It can only see the new backup I had just made, both on the internal and external memory!
Confused, I booted up the Tab again, and using Root Explorer (with full root access) the first strange thing I noticed was that inside the TWRP folder on the root directory of the internal SD card, its "empty".. but the new backup I just made is actually there.. if I go to the root folders under MNT, there I can see perfectly the very same TWRP folder with the backup sub-folder inside! So why its not showing up when browsing \Emulated\0 TWRP folder? I dont understand this one. Anyway, next I went into my external MiniSD Card, and indeed I have now 2 backups inside the TWRP folder, the old backup from my old Tab that I want to restore and the new backup I had just made, each in their own sub-folder structure as they should be.
So, I rebooted into TWRP recovery and again and I can ONLY see both the new internal and external backups I just made, but NOT the old backup I need to recover from.. it just doesn't show up! Such a mystery has never happened to me before. This is the same Tab, same model, same old TWRP version (2.7.1.0) and using the original external MiniSD Card. Where am I going wrong? I can see the file names inside the new and old backup are different.. is this the problem? Why is the same TWRP version on a new Tab generating different file names than the same TWRP of the old Tab?
To be specific, the new (recoverable) backup folder has the following files:
\TWRP\10d401a5\2014-02-05--07-03-30 KOT49H.T325ZSU1B0B4\
boot.emmc.win
data.ext4.win
system.ext4.win000
system.ext4.win001
recovery.log
The old (not-recoverable) backup folder that I want to restore from, has the following files:
\TWRP\d59ee67a\2014-03-09--08-44-04 cm_mondrianlte-userdebug 4.4.4 KTU84Q b9f00\
boot.emmc.win
data.ext4.win000
data.ext4.win001
system.ext4.win
recovery.log
Any advice on this is greatly appreciated and I apologize in advance if its me missing something obvious or just being plain stupid!
Thanks again!!!
I suspect the d59ee67a \ 10d401a5 are generated from the tablet serial number, so twrp will only look in the folder for the current serial number match, which is why it won't show the other backup.
I would assume you could copy the file contents from your old backup into the new twrp folder then restore, as long as you are sure the tablets are identical, have the same bootloader and same memory sizes...etc
so basically try to copy the folder "2014-03-09--08-44-04 cm_mondrianlte-userdebug 4.4.4 KTU84Q b9f00" to TWRP\10d401a5\
otyg said:
I suspect the d59ee67a \ 10d401a5 are generated from the tablet serial number, so twrp will only look in the folder for the current serial number match, which is why it won't show the other backup.
I would assume you could copy the file contents from your old backup into the new twrp folder then restore, as long as you are sure the tablets are identical, have the same bootloader and same memory sizes...etc
so basically try to copy the folder "2014-03-09--08-44-04 cm_mondrianlte-userdebug 4.4.4 KTU84Q b9f00" to TWRP\10d401a5\
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Wow, yes, thank you very much for the reply! I had no idea that each hardware generates a specific number by which TWRP tags the folder. This is why the backup of the old Tab is not found because its inside the folder with the number of the older hardware. I followed your recommendation and simply moved the old backup into the subfolder of the new backup I had made and instantly TWRP could see it and I made a successful restore!
This is a very import tip to know and I cant thank you enough for sharing it with me! Thanks again