Recently discovered that both CWM and Titanium together do not backup EFS partition and probably a lot of other stuff.
Does anyone know of anything else what should be backed up next to efs partition that is not backed up by CWM and Titanium?
And of course know a way of how to back up/Restore it?
Anyone know of a solution that does back everything up? And not just portions such as Titanium and CWM?
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baz77 said:
Recently discovered that both CWM and Titanium toghether do not backup EFS partition and probably a lot of other stuff.
Does anyone know of anything else that should be backed up next to efs partition that is not backed up by CWM and Titanium?
And of course know a way of how to back up/Restore it?
Anyone know of a solution that does back everything up? And not just portions such as Titanium and CWM?
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1. use EFS Pro
2. use Titanium for your apps and their data
3. use CWMR for everything else (except the modem, it won't backup/restore it)
and you're covered. No universal all-in-one solution for now.
Cool thanks. Are the following frequencies of backup correct?
Efs pro backup once, or with every major (e.g. Gb to Ics) Os update
Cwm backup once per os update
Titanium, frequently backup
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baz77 said:
Cool thanks. Are the following frequencies of backup correct?
Efs pro backup once, or with every major (e.g. Gb to Ics) Os update
Cwm backup once per os update
Titanium, frequently backup
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EFS once, CWMR once per update, Titanium according to your needs.
Guys!
Use TWRP, and tell it to backup everything. That'll do /data and /cache (personal stuff and cache) /system, /efs and somewhere else too. Only problem is that to back up data each time, you have to turn off, get in recovery, backup, reboot normally.
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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?
I would like to try some ROMs but my prolem is that if I dont like it I want to come back, BUT i don't want to create everything again with Link2SD.
So I can creat a nandroid backup -> instal new rom and IF I dont like it, -> restore nandroid backup or install previous rom and then do the nandoird restore?
Link2sd restores work fine provided you remove 05mountsd script from init.d prior to backup. The script creates a conflict with Link2sd after restoring a nandroid for some reason. At least this is the case on CM7.
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I would like to try some ROMs but my prolem is that if I dont like it I want to come back, BUT i don't want to create everything again with Link2SD.
So I can creat a nandroid backup -> instal new rom and IF I dont like it, -> restore nandroid backup or install previous rom and then do the nandoird restore?
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Nandroid backups store all data and symlinks of link2sd.
If you restore a nandroid backup you'll have the rom as you left it, including all apps on the partition, their data and link2sd links, so no need to link everything again.
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Nandroid backups store all data and symlinks of link2sd.
If you restore a nandroid backup you'll have the rom as you left it, including all apps on the partition, their data and link2sd links, so no need to link everything again.
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I'm on stocklitle 7.1 and i want to upgradeto 8, I can do:
Nandroid abckup with CWM -> Install new ROM -> Restore Nandroid backup and everyting will be the same but with updated ROM?
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I'm on stocklitle 7.1 and i want to upgradeto 8, I can do:
Nandroid abckup with CWM -> Install new ROM -> Restore Nandroid backup and everyting will be the same but with updated ROM?
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No. Nandroid backups alao store system and kernel, you'd be back to stocklite 7.
You can try this:
-nandroid backup your stocklite 7
-wipes, flash stocklite 8
-if it didn't change drastically, you can restore only the data of your previous backup (advanced restore > restore data).
-if it gives you bootloops... bad luck, you'll have to use titanium backup and relink apps afterwards.
I have gotten this to work for lots of nightly upgrades of cm7 roms, and sometimes even when changing cm7 roms if they're not too different. Nothing lost by trying as long as you got your backup.
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No. Nandroid backups alao store system and kernel, you'd be back to stocklite 7.
You can try this:
-nandroid backup your stocklite 7
-wipes, flash stocklite 8
-if it didn't change drastically, you can restore only the data of your previous backup (advanced restore > restore data).
-if it gives you bootloops... bad luck, you'll have to use titanium backup and relink apps afterwards.
I have gotten this to work for lots of nightly upgrades of cm7 roms, and sometimes even when changing cm7 roms if they're not too different. Nothing lost by trying as long as you got your backup.
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I'll try it maybe
Hi guys
Im running CM9 beta 4 and i want to know where the app data of apps is stored.
So if i need to, i can restore them from a Nandroid backup cause my Titanium backups are not always as up to date as they can be but my nandroids are.
Thanks
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Hi guys
Im running CM9 beta 4 and i want to know where the app data of apps is stored.
So if i need to, i can restore them from a Nandroid backup cause my Titanium backups are not always as up to date as they can be but my nandroids are.
Thanks
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It depends on the app, but most of app data is being stored in: sdcard/Android/data or (mostly games): sdcard/Android/obb.
Hmm...
I see the files but if I restore the apps from nandroid they are reset and don't use the data?
Phone: GT-I9001 Samsung Galaxy S Plus
Rom: CM9 RC 2 by arco86
Kernel: CastagnaIT 7.4 OC/UV
Did i help you? hitting the thanks button would be appreciated.
I'm not sure, if I fully understand what you mean by "Don't use the data"? I have no experience with nandroid backups, but my Titanium backups are restored without reseting any apps, it remebered of all my settings and updates. Make sure, you're doing a full backup.
App data are all stored in the /data partition
If you want to restore the data you can use nandroid Browser from play store but i think its better when you do an advanced restore in recovery and only restore the /data partition
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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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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.
Hey Guys ,,
is there any way to move a backup data to the ROM
i have ATT note 3,, i did backup using safe strap and after x note ROM instillation i tried to do restore data but it failed,,,any solution
I believe the Safestrap backups are similar to just TWRP or Nandroid backups.
They'll save the entire partition as is, to restore back to that state at a later date.
They aren't good for, say, moving all your apps and appdata to a new Rom.
For that, you should use Titanium Backup or a similar backup manager like Helium.
Then back up just the apps and appdata (not system apps, since they'll often conflict with the new rom) to your SDCard, and restore them when on the new app.
Sorry, it doesn't help when you've already done the TWRP backup and flashed a new rom.