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backup question.help please

yesterday I tried to get a backup from boot menu.every thing was good except :
the backup file was include every thing except sd card file.
when I restored backup file lots of softwares had problem because I installed them in sd card.
so how can I get backup include sdcard from boot place.

I didn't really get your question.
When you restored the apps that were on SD Card didn't work?

I meen I used voldown and power key for boot place after that I got a backup from hole system but backup were not include sd card file

bluelove2 said:
I meen I used voldown and power key for boot place after that I got a backup from hole system but backup were not include sd card file
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Hi,
If you want to back up your sd card,take it out,put it in a card reader,and make a copy of it on your pc/laptop.
The backup you made in CWM/4EXT has to be saved somewhere.
It cannot make a copy of the place it is going to be saved.

bluelove2 said:
I meen I used voldown and power key for boot place after that I got a backup from hole system but backup were not include sd card file
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The only partitions you will have from a full NANdroid backup will be the following:
Boot
System
Data
Cache
.android_secure
The only other information that might not get backed up would be the Dalvik Cache, which is reinitialized every time you start the device. Your applications that are moved to the SD card are backed up in the /data partition backup, not anywhere else. The only data that gets backed up FROM your SD card is .android_secure, which is a special folder Android keeps important stuff for apps in, but your apps truly are in the Data backup.

[Q] a few Noob questions regarding TWRP NANDroid backups

Hello, I have a few questions regarding the TWRP recovery particularly the NANDroid backups, please bear with me as I am new to this. I have made a few backups using twrp but I want to put them onto my pc in order to save space however when I plug my phone into my pc I don’t see the TWRP folder unless I boot into recovery and then plug it in. Is this how it is supposed to be?
I wanted to test out restoring a backup that I had saved onto my pc onto my device. To test this out I created a backup through TWRP booted into recovery plugged in my device into my computer copied the backup file located in the TWRP folder and then deleted it from my device. Next I wanted to copy the backup that I just put on my pc back onto my phone and then eventually restore it through TWRP. However I only get as far as copying it from my device onto my pc. When I try to copy it back into the TWRP folder on my device I get an error saying “cannot copy data.ext4.win000 its file size is larger than the device limit” The backup is 4.83gb and I have 10.7gb free. Does anyone know why this is happening?
Last question, seeing as a NanDroid backup is basically an image of your whole device, let’s say I am selling my device and I don’t want the buyer to have any way of accessing any of my data. Would the deletion of my backups, factory reset and an advanced wipe where I select all the partitions to be wiped be enough?
Thank you in advance for your help!

1 - no. You're on lollipop i presume. Read my /sdcard thread in general
2 - sounds like its being mounted as FAT with 4GB file limit. Try web push method
3 - not really. You'd be best overwriting the data partition with files first.

'Restoring' New 6039S with Existing 6039S Backup

So I've ordered a new 6039S to replace my 2-year old 6039S. That said, I've finally got my current one dialed in almost perfectly to suit my needs, so I'd like to backup the current one and flash that backup onto the new device.
Naturally I would install a custom recovery and backup the new device first, but are there any potential problems with the above approach? I'm assuming I could 'restore' all the backed-up partitions from the current to new device other than perhaps /boot? Sorry if either question is really ignorant...I'm clearly not a developer.

Hi Bradlee - I have done the exact same thing with two 6039y's - Make sure they are the EXACT SAME MODEL PHONES !! and install the same version of TWRP on each phone.
1 - Backup your old 6039s with twrp - Only backup the system, data, cache and boot partitions - DO NOT BACKUP EFS
2- Backup your new 6039s with twrp - backup all (to create the correct folder structures) (and have a backup if you have a problem you can restore) - DO NOT RESTORE EFS partition
You will notice that the "BACKUPS" folder in the TWRP folder on each device that contains the TWRP backup will have a diiferent number eg - "f2eeega" this is different for each device.
simply copy the the backup folder from the old device within the numbered folder and copy it to the new device placing it in the new devices different numbered folder.
Then restore using TWRP and you will have an identical clone of your old device.
It worked perfectly with my 2 phones
Best of luck.
as always I take no responsiblity if you mess up your phone - but if you follow my instructions exacly you will not have any problems and have 2 identical phones

k500zm said:
Hi Bradlee - I have done the exact same thing with two 6039y's - Make sure they are the EXACT SAME MODEL PHONES !! and install the same version of TWRP on each phone.
1 - Backup your old 6039s with twrp - Only backup the system, data, cache and boot partitions - DO NOT BACKUP EFS
2- Backup your new 6039s with twrp - backup all (to create the correct folder structures) (and have a backup if you have a problem you can restore) - DO NOT RESTORE EFS partition
You will notice that the "BACKUPS" folder in the TWRP folder on each device that contains the TWRP backup will have a diiferent number eg - "f2eeega" this is different for each device.
simply copy the the backup folder from the old device within the numbered folder and copy it to the new device placing it in the new devices different numbered folder.
Then restore using TWRP and you will have an identical clone of your old device.
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Wow, I didn't think I'd find someone else who'd actually done it. I really appreciate the notes on folder numbering, EFS partition, and TWRP version! Thanks a ton k500zm! :good:

No probs matey - One other thing - after you have done this, you will need to copy the contents of your internal sd card. [user data, photos etc]
First - get rid of any big files eg movies etc that you can easly copy back over - then -
What I do - to make sure it is an exact copy - is create a RAR archive [with no compression] (or zip but I prefer RAR) containing all the folders you want on the old phone
then copy that RAR / zip to the new device internal sd card and then extract the contents of the RAR / zip to the new device internal sd card.
I use the RAR app from playstore and this archiving and extraction is done on the phone - NOT on your computer.
This makes sure there are no errors / missing files.
Job Done

Try this.
In the new device install twrp 3.1.0-0, boot in twrp, execute this https://forum.xda-developers.com/id...e-recovery-t3573635/post71446256#post71446256 , you will get a backup rom zip on desktop, install twrp 3.1.0-0 on the old one and install the backup rom zip on it.
The backup rom zip have the same images then a ota upgrade rom.
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k500zm said:
No probs matey - One other thing - after you have done this, you will need to copy the contents of your internal sd card. [user data, photos etc]
First - get rid of any big files eg movies etc that you can easly copy back over - then -
What I do - to make sure it is an exact copy - is create a RAR archive [with no compression] (or zip but I prefer RAR) containing all the folders you want on the old phone
then copy that RAR / zip to the new device internal sd card and then extract the contents of the RAR / zip to the new device internal sd card.
I use the RAR app from playstore and this archiving and extraction is done on the phone - NOT on your computer.
This makes sure there are no errors / missing files.
Job Done
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persona78 said:
Try this.
In the new device install twrp 3.1.0-0, boot in twrp, execute this https://forum.xda-developers.com/id...e-recovery-t3573635/post71446256#post71446256 , you will get a backup rom zip on desktop, install twrp 3.1.0-0 on the old one and install the backup rom zip on it.
The backup rom zip have the same images then a ota upgrade rom.
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Thanks to you both. I have to figure out which route I want to take now; it's good to have options.
persona78, regardless of which backup process I use, I'll try to find time to test out your OTA install theory on the old device.

TWRP backup including internal storage

We all know, at least I hope so, that if you perform a backup in TWRP the internal storage data (photos, documents, etc.) is not included in the backup.
https://twrp.me/faq/backupexclusions.html
Of course, you can always manually backup the internal storage. But it is possible to include the internal storage data in a TWRP backup by temporarily renaming the media folder inside the root folder data.
A TWRP backup includes the TWRP folder for it is part of the internal storage. Therefore it will also backup all the large files which are present. It is therefore more convenient to keep the TWRP folder as small as possible, but it is up to you.
1. Go into TWRP recovery.
2. The path is button advanced button file management within the data folder you will find the media folder. Rename the media folder
temporarily to e.g. ABC.
3. Perform a new backup in TWRP and give it a new name. Don't leave TWRP but enter file management again.
4. You will find a new media folder. This is because TWRP creates this media folder, it includes your new backup.
5. Your follow-up actions will be to rename the new media folder into e.g. DEF and rename the temporary folder ABC (which is the original media folder)
back to media.
6. Restart your system and now you find a TWRP backup including internal storage in the DEF folder. Move this backup to the TWRP folder and delete
the DEF folder.
Thats it.
Do not forget when you perform a recovery with this backup to repeat step 6.

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20180321-111816
OK I found another post, using same method but used examples.
Indeed they are using same method,
and I would like to thank OP and that post's OP.
both help to "include internal storage into TWRP backup".
thanks~
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/tutorial-create-internal-storage-backup-t3389172
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Can you write in more simple english?
I really dont understand the details.
It will help with examples, with the full path instead of just "ABC" "DEF"
Thank you.

Good looking out OP. Never know when I may need this. :good:

a very good guide
you can always use

thanks for your effort! if you like you can test my solution
Universal-TWRP-Bind-Mount-Enabler.zip (do not flash!)

Thanks mart56, I am looking for this for some time and now i got right solution. it's really help me with internal storage backup.

Excellent
If backing up to external SD Card, media directory is not created, so just rename it back after the backup process. If rebooted without renaming back, then it recreates media directory.
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I was looking for full back up solution and found this: https://www.xda-developers.com/tipatch-patches-twrp-full-data-backups/
Both options have drawbacks... I dont like wipe data option in TWRP to delete data including storage .
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mart56 said:
We all know, at least I hope so, that if you perform a backup in TWRP the internal storage data (photos, documents, etc.) is not included in the backup.
https://twrp.me/faq/backupexclusions.html
Of course, you can always manually backup the internal storage. But it is possible to include the internal storage data in a TWRP backup by temporarily renaming the media folder inside the root folder data.
A TWRP backup includes the TWRP folder for it is part of the internal storage. Therefore it will also backup all the large files which are present. It is therefore more convenient to keep the TWRP folder as small as possible, but it is up to you.
1. Go into TWRP recovery.
2. The path is button advanced button file management within the data folder you will find the media folder. Rename the media folder
temporarily to e.g. ABC.
3. Perform a new backup in TWRP and give it a new name. Don't leave TWRP but enter file management again.
4. You will find a new media folder. This is because TWRP creates this media folder, it includes your new backup.
5. Your follow-up actions will be to rename the new media folder into e.g. DEF and rename the temporary folder ABC (which is the original media folder)
back to media.
6. Restart your system and now you find a TWRP backup including internal storage in the DEF folder. Move this backup to the TWRP folder and delete
the DEF folder.
Thats it.
Do not forget when you perform a recovery with this backup to repeat step 6.
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As I understand our media should be back up in ABC. So during recovery after "format data" or "wipe including internal storage" it will restore our media in ABC folder, do we need to rename it back to media using TWRP to complete recovery?
My understanding is that internal storage will stay in ABC, and not be visible when boot in System(not doing step 5). In system we will have the newly created media empty (because we can not do step 6 DEF folder is actual internal storage and will not be included in back up).
So do you mean that we need to do step (5) after recovery? Not step (6)?

useless
whenever i tried to take a backup,the same error pops up,even after following ur instructions.so ur post is useless for me.

Guys, does anybody know, why twrp doesn't see an option data including storage (large sd needed) while I am trying to restore it? It definitely is present in the backup

I followed this guide and the backup size is 28591MB (boot, data, system). However, the internal memory of my S4mini is only 8GB. How can the /data/media folder be bigger than the internal memory? It is not stored on the external sd card is it?
UPDATE: I deleted the /data/media/0/DCIM/.thumbnail folder and now the backup is only 4950MB

V helpful and useful tip Thanks

Full Backup using the TWRP Backup Tool program

Good afternoon,
My question is as follows,
1. The Backup Tool program creates a unique file when it generates the complete backup by the computer, different from the one created by TWRP, if it only needs to restore a single item has?
Note: I use the Backup Tool to be able to back up directly to the PC because I do not have enough memory card to fit the DATA folder.
2. With the complete backup, I read in some topics in the forum, that do not go type information, photos, downloads, etc. Is this right? If so, why in full backup is this information missing?
Thank you.

costafabiof said:
Good afternoon,
My question is as follows,
1. The Backup Tool program creates a unique file when it generates the complete backup by the computer, different from the one created by TWRP, if it only needs to restore a single item has?
Note: I use the Backup Tool to be able to back up directly to the PC because I do not have enough memory card to fit the DATA folder.
2. With the complete backup, I read in some topics in the forum, that do not go type information, photos, downloads, etc. Is this right? If so, why in full backup is this information missing?
Thank you.
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You can use twrp to pc and copy your internal storage off. Just drag and drop the folders you want from internal to your pc. No need to do a back up of it

godkingofcanada said:
You can use twrp to pc and copy your internal storage off. Just drag and drop the folders you want from internal to your pc. No need to do a back up of it
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Good afternoon,
Are you telling me that when I connect the phone to the PC via TWRP and all the folders appear, if I copy them, is it the same as doing a full backup by TWRP?
Because if so, what caught my attention is that, folders total 700 mb and backup 6 gigs.

No what he's saying is that TWRP only backs up the system content. So your ROM, apps, app settings, customisation etc is all saved in the TWRP backup.
But it doesn't save "loose" user files, so things like photos, downloads, etc saved to your SD or internal storage aren't included in the TWRP backup.
So for a complete backup, you want a TWRP backup + copy the photos, downloads, etc folders via PC onto your desktop.
Copying the folders is NOT going to be equivalent to a TWP backup, as you don't see any system/firmware files in PC.

What to use to Backup Complete phone Firmware, pictures and Everything on the phone??? So if it crashes you caab restore phone back to like it was before Crash? Thanks