Nandroid backup works for all the NAND partitions on the Bionic, dumping them to /sdcard-ext where they can be safely archived offline.
I'm looking for a way to perform a backup of the Bionic' internal sdcard (/sdcard). When the phone is fully booted, I can use tar, cpio, cp -Rp and so forth, but aren't some of the folders "live"? Is there a way to add something to the Nandroid backup script which executes a tar command for /sdcard?
Thanks!
Unless I'm missing something here; Can't you just plug it into your computer and copy the contents of your sd card?
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is there a way for me to backup my ext2 app partition on my sdcard with a windows machine? im running cyans 4.0.2 and i love it! but i would like to be able to backup the partition 'just in case' but i only have a xp desktop. thank you!
need to backup your ext partition?
the following commands will backup/restore your ext partition to/from a folder named sdbackup in your current directory. these must be run while phone is booted, not recovery.
to backup your ext partition: adb pull /system/sd/ %CD%\sdbackup
to restore back to sdcard: adb push %CD%\sdbackup /system/sd
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You can also use Ubuntu.
title sounds more like this thread would be instructions rather than a question.
Another way that does not require adb would be to enter the following in terminal emulator
Code:
cd system
cp -r sd /sdcard/(name of folder you wish to backup to)
Than just plug the usb into your windows box, mount the sd card, and copy the folder.
hcphs said:
need to backup your ext partition?
the following commands will backup/restore your ext partition to/from a folder named sdbackup in your current directory. these must be run while phone is booted, not recovery.
to backup your ext partition: adb pull /system/sd/ %CD%\sdbackup
to restore back to sdcard: adb push %CD%\sdbackup /system/sd
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Will this allow me to move my partition to a different SD card without re-installing all my apps (via nandroid)?
Quick question... I897 with KB1 + voodoo lagfix kernel. Just did my first nandroid backup and it completed... however, it flashed some errors about accessing apps on external sdcard. This was from CWM RED (v2.5.1.3). I do have some of my larger apps stored on external SD (and all work just as fast as if they were on internal sd). Was I supposed to move these back to internal SD before doing nandroid? Does a nandroid backup just backup the internal sd? Thx gang.
Typically nandroid through CWM creates the image from shall we say the local or main portion of you devices memory.
Suggestion - If you are space deprived on the internal SD, copy the APKs to you desktop (for the image backup) and delete them from your device for now. They can always be copied back to your int SD or ext Sd. This won't remove, delete or uninstall the application itself, but rather enhance space.
Another suggestion is to create an initial backup prior to the CWM nandroid backup with Titanium Backup first, then copy and store that backup, with all your apps) safely on a PC.
Hope this helps...
Peace-
How to delete the whole backup
I just done one more backup as im on a new rom and i wan to delete the old backup i cannot find the file nandroid how do i delete it?
please reply.
Ok, so my rom got corrupted and didn't have any backup of the data so I made a nandroid backup and flashed a new rom.
Now I have the nandroid backup in hand and I need to extract the apps and data from there. I used app extractor and it was able to extract and restore apps stored on internal memory (sd-ext since I use amarrullz script).
Here are some issues that I am still facing:
1. Appextractor wasn't able to restore my old sms. Any idea where they might be located? and guide/app to restore?
2. My apps which were located on the external sd card arn't there yet. I guess it has something to do with android_secure? I have most(or all?) of the apps which were installed in the external card in ".asec" format and I have no idea what to do with them. Can anyone guide me where the apps and thier data is located and how to restore them? I tried advanced restoring "data" from nandriod but that leads to bootloop.
Update : Sms issue was solved
The apps on sd end up in asec partition:
Data and lib files go in mnt/asec/[app name directory]
Dalvik cache goes to internal on data/dalvik-cache
Data goes on internal data/data
You can extract the contents of the nandroid backup to your pc and then use adb to push the files where they belong.
Good luck.
dxppxd said:
The apps on sd end up in asec partition:
Data and lib files go in mnt/asec/[app name directory]
Dalvik cache goes to internal on data/dalvik-cache
Data goes on internal data/data
You can extract the contents of the nandroid backup to your pc and then use adb to push the files where they belong.
Good luck.
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1. I only have asec files which i have placed in mnt/secure/asec
2. Is dalvik-cache necessary?
3. data is copied
4. the libs and data of mnt/asec are not present in nandroid backup (atlest i couldn't find).
Logcat Attached.
Managed, due to clumsyness, to overwrite pictures on my local disk AND delete them on the sdcard0 storage. Never ever click Yes to merging folders
Is there any way, without root and with the .253 stock fw, that I can make a full image dump of the sdcard partition to be able to tinker with data restoration tools?
Do I need to downgrade the ROM and root before proceeding?
Can I in some way push down dd and make an image?
sidenote: Why in the name of all reasonable things did Google choose MTP as preferred and making it impossible to mount the internal SD as storage???
Any suggestions welcome!
I made a twrp backup and was able to drag and drop it to my PC for later use. Now the big question is...where do I move this backup to? I've simply moved it back into the backups folder located in my twrp folder in my internal storage. If I go to restore, I can see the backup folder along with another backup I named Stock. Will this work if I just restore the backup from here? It seems too simple. I have read about pushing the file using adb to internal storage and then installing it as a zip file. Problem is the backup is not a zip file. Any help will do. Thanks.