I have Titanium Backup because I saw it mentioned in a few forums as I was considering rooting. If I am now using nandroid and backing up apps on the SD using appsaver, is there any reason to keep Titanium? Does it have any features that make it worth keeping?
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nandroid is a full back up, its either the whole thing or nothing. Titanium just backs up the app and data. I like to do full wipes before switching to a new ROM, but with titanium backup, i get to keep my apps and data
i think nandroid only does complete backup but you can choose an advanced restore to only restore you apps and data.
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... but the SMS (I suppose).
What do you think about guys?
I need to backup everything 'cause I have lag + battery issues and I want to flash a new ROM.
If you want to flash new rom then Titanium backup.
It includes SMS too, if you want specific application ' SMS backup Restore' available for SMS.
CWM. That will backup the entire ROM. Titanium only backups apps.
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Hmm let me see if I got it right.
If a new ROM flash was successful then I should restore with Titanium Backup, while if it was unsuccessful then I would have to use CWM to have everything back like before.
Correct?
That's correct
Titanium only backups apps and the appdata, while CWM backups the entire ROM, so if anything goes wrong while flashing you can easilly restore without any problems. It can also be used as a second ROM, so if you want to try the CM9 build you can flash that, and when you want to go back to stock or back to the previous ROM you do a restore, and voila! you're back to your old ROM with all the settings and apps.
CWM is "idiot mode". You can't screw it up if you have a NAND backup.
Alright, thanks for clearing things out.
And in the latest versions, Titanium Backup can even restore apps and data from Nandroids (i.e. CWM backups)
Therefore CWM + TB is the perfect combo.
By the way, if you want to backup MMS on top of SMS, best app is MyBackup
I second sms backup & restore. It saves sms into xml format.
I've got a backup question.
How do you backup, flash a new ROM, and restore where you have Desktops setup the same, desktop folders setup and settings setup, but no bad "Junk" from the previous ROM?
If I just want to have a back-up of my apps and settings (wi-fi, etc.), when I am changing ROMs and do a complete wipe, is there any advantage of using an app like Titanium compared to using the back-up/restore that is part of CWM? I assume when I restore (if I am changing ROMs), I only want to restore apps & data.. Is the back-up/restore in CWM what I see referred to as a Nandroid backup?
davidr415 said:
If I just want to have a back-up of my apps and settings (wi-fi, etc.), when I am changing ROMs and do a complete wipe, is there any advantage of using an app like Titanium compared to using the back-up/restore that is part of CWM? I assume when I restore (if I am changing ROMs), I only want to restore apps & data.. Is the back-up/restore in CWM what I see referred to as a Nandroid backup?
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For the purposes you want, use TB. Then only the installed apps and settings get restored. If you use CWM backup (nandroid) and do a partial restore of only /data, you defeat the purpose of doing the wipe in the first place. It restores the system settings too, which is why you did the wipe to begin with, to get rid of those. But WiFi settings are system settings and if you want to keep those, don't wipe in the first place. But sometimes you have to to make the new ROM work right.
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Does a nandroid backup touch the sd card somehow? I mean if I had done some backups for apps using some Rom (titanium root app ofc) and then restored another Rom where my backups were old :s
Will my new backups gebt overwritten by my old backups when I restore to an old Rom ?
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anonymousss said:
Does a nandroid backup touch the sd card somehow? I mean if I had done some backups for apps using some Rom (titanium root app ofc) and then restored another Rom where my backups were old :s
Will my new backups gebt overwritten by my old backups when I restore to an old Rom ?
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I dont really understand the question but Ill try to answer to the best of my ability.
Nandroid backups are stored on the SD Card. So are Titanium Backup folders. Also nandroids backup EXACTLY how the phone was when you made the nandroid. The custom recoveries also don't touch whatever is on the SD card unless ure flashing something or backing up.
so I think ure question is will the Titanium Backups get overwritten when you restore a nandroid. The Answer is No because like I said earlier, the recovery will only be restoring the nandroid, not erasing anything else.
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I dont really understand the question but Ill try to answer to the best of my ability.
Nandroid backups are stored on the SD Card. So are Titanium Backup folders. Also nandroids backup EXACTLY how the phone was when you made the nandroid. The custom recoveries also don't touch whatever is on the SD card unless ure flashing something or backing up.
so I think ure question is will the Titanium Backups get overwritten when you restore a nandroid. The Answer is No because like I said earlier, the recovery will only be restoring the nandroid, not erasing anything else.
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A nandroid backup takes a full image backup of the different partitions such as /system, /data /boot etc.
Titanium Backup makes file level backups.
If you load a new ROM and install new programs and then do a Titanium backup you will get all of your current programs.
If you then decide to restore a nandroid backup of an old ROM, the /data partition will be completely replaced and only contains programs that were installed at the time the nandroid backup was made.
However, all of the backup files you made with Titanium Backup are still on the SD card, so you can simply reinstall Titanium and then restore all of the programs from your Titanium Backup.
Nandroid backups and Titanium backups are created in different directorires on the sd card and will not get overwritten when creating backups.
Yesterday I made a full Nandroid Backup of my HTC One from the recovery.
The ROM just installed was not working, so I restored the backup.
All the apps were restored without problems except the HTC Sense launcher.
The apps grid in app drawer and homescreens were not restored.
So I've tried to restore only the data for the launcher with Nandroid Manager app, but nothing changed.
Titanium Backup is the only working but for this app I've only a old backup.
Where are stored the homescreens and app drawer data? Which folders does Titanium Backup restore?
Or there is another way to restore data from Nandroid Backup?
When I click on Restore from Nandroid Backup in Titanium it crashes.
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Yesterday I made a full Nandroid Backup of my HTC One from the recovery.
The ROM just installed was not working, so I restored the backup.
All the apps were restored without problems except the HTC Sense launcher.
The apps grid in app drawer and homescreens were not restored.
So I've tried to restore only the data for the launcher with Nandroid Manager app, but nothing changed.
Titanium Backup is the only working but for this app I've only a old backup.
Where are stored the homescreens and app drawer data? Which folders does Titanium Backup restore?
Or there is another way to restore data from Nandroid Backup?
When I click on Restore from Nandroid Backup in Titanium it crashes.
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don't know about the Nandroid Manager App
but the home screen icons can be restored via Titanium Backup (if backedup by Titanium) within the system apps "HTC Sense xxx (Desktop)"
Yes I know, but in Titanium Backup I've only a old backup. My problem is the recent backup is a Nandroid backup
So i ahve been using titanium backup for some time now as the years have gone by this product has just gotten over all better with being able to cloud store and backup on the go with a push of a button my question is and i may not being doing it right how does one back up the data as well (meaning the APK and data) or is this not possible and can only be done via nandriod backup?
You can backup and restore with data. Just check your preferences in TiBu, backup with external data, and restore with external data. I always restore my data (obviously not system apps), never had an issue once.
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