I have synched my Titanium Backup to my Dropbox account, and have the files on my desktop. There were older files in there, however, from previous backups. My question is should I only zip up the files dated from the most recent backup (1/1/11), or should I zip all the files and move them to the card? My instincts say use just yesterday's, as it was a full backup, but there's a niggle in the back of my mind - any insight would be appreciated!
I have a real headache going on here...
I have a backup in Dropbox made with Ti Backup dated Feb 13, which I'm trying desperately to restore after my Samsung Epic had to be reflashed. But no matter what I do, a backup from Jan 17 keeps showing on the restore list in Ti.
I deleted the Ti folder on my SD card and replaced it with the downloaded folder from Dropbox, but Jan 17 still comes up in the program. I then tried deleting the folder in the SD card, then ran a "Sync with Dropbox." Same result. I even uninstalled and reinstalled Ti but that Jan 17 backup keeps coming up.
I won't be doing any backups until I get this restoration done. Can anyone suggest what to do here?
Thanks!
toonvox said:
I have a real headache going on here...
I have a backup in Dropbox made with Ti Backup dated Feb 13, which I'm trying desperately to restore after my Samsung Epic had to be reflashed. But no matter what I do, a backup from Jan 17 keeps showing on the restore list in Ti.
I deleted the Ti folder on my SD card and replaced it with the downloaded folder from Dropbox, but Jan 17 still comes up in the program. I then tried deleting the folder in the SD card, then ran a "Sync with Dropbox." Same result. I even uninstalled and reinstalled Ti but that Jan 17 backup keeps coming up.
I won't be doing any backups until I get this restoration done. Can anyone suggest what to do here?
Thanks!
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There's another place on the main memory that TB can store a backup, have you gone all through your file structure and killed all other possibilities? I had to do that myself once, it wasn't fun - also, make sure in TB preferences you're pointing to the correct directory in Preferences/Backup Folder Name.
reinbeau said:
There's another place on the main memory that TB can store a backup, have you gone all through your file structure and killed all other possibilities? I had to do that myself once, it wasn't fun - also, make sure in TB preferences you're pointing to the correct directory in Preferences/Backup Folder Name.
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Thanks for the response!
a) How do I find out what the directory is in Preferences/Backup Folder Name? It just shows a folder name...not a place to put it.
b) If there's something in the phone memory, it's gone since I wiped the phone clean when I re-flashed it.
toonvox said:
Thanks for the response!
a) How do I find out what the directory is in Preferences/Backup Folder Name? It just shows a folder name...not a place to put it.
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You have to go and look st it. Start up TB, hit the menu button, then preferences, and then choose backup folder. Tell me what that says and we'll go from there.
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A pop-up window which simply says:
Backup folder name:
TitaniumBackup
OK Cancel
toonvox said:
A pop-up window which simply says:
Backup folder name:
TitaniumBackup
OK Cancel
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Ok, so what ROM version are you on? Are you on 2.2 or 2.2.1? If you are, you need to change that path to read external_sd/TitaniumBackup. Put the backup in there, and TB should pick it up from there. If you're on 2.1 someone else is going to have to give you the proper path, I've fogotten what it is.
It's 2.2.1. I'll make that change to prevent future problems. Thanks for the info! Really appreciated!
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It's 2.2.1. I'll make that change to prevent future problems. Thanks for the info! Really appreciated!
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There's a button for that
Seriously, I hope your restore goes well.
Hoping to get some help... My Sd card fried on me today. Erased everything. Good thing I backed up everything on my Laptop... Re-downloaded titanium backup on my phone and am trying to get the TB files from my laptop back on to the app on my phone. I put the TB file i have saved into the TB folder on my SD card but when I open the app it still shows nothing saved... Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?
Samsung Fascinate MIUI 1.8.19
Android OS 2.3.5 GB
EDit: Nevermind, got it!
So as far as I can see, first I pay for the Dropbox restore ability (which indeed saved me though) and then I can't even automatically restore from Dropbox, but only manually copy the files to SD and then restore? Disappointing.
I tried this now (after copying the files into the "TitaniumBackup" folder), but it doesn't work, it simply doesn't draw the files. I rebooted, to no result.
What do I do wrong?
PS: This is on CM9 RC0.
knowledgeworker said:
So as far as I can see, first I pay for the Dropbox restore ability (which indeed saved me though) and then I can't even automatically restore from Dropbox, but only manually copy the files to SD and then restore? Disappointing.
I tried this now (after copying the files into the "TitaniumBackup" folder), but it doesn't work, it simply doesn't draw the files. I rebooted, to no result.
What do I do wrong?
PS: This is on CM9 RC0.
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Not true. I have restored via Dropbox multiple times on multiple devices. Follow the below steps:
1.) On a recently wiped device, Setup Dropbox via Titanium Backup. *Make sure you are pointing to the correct folder on your Dropbox account.*
2.) Click on "Schedules"
3.) Click "Run" on the Sync to Dropbox option.
4.) If all the above was done correctly you should see files from Dropbox being downloaded to your device. This may take a while depending on how many applications you have.
5.) Once the download completes, Figure out where the files were restored. By default they should be in the TitaniumBackup folder on the root of your SD card.
6.) Go into Preferences in Titanium once the download from Dropbox is complete.
7.) Scroll down to "Backup folder location"
8.) Click on "DETECT"
9.) Select "SD Card". It should show you all directories with Titanium backup files.
10.) Select the folder that has the files you downloaded from Dropbox.
11.) Select "Use the current folder"
12.) Exit Titanium and go back in. You should now see all your applications from Dropbox when you select "Restore missing apps with data"
13.) Restore and enjoy.
Thank you Mike02z it help me
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Not true. I have restored via Dropbox multiple times on multiple devices. Follow the below steps:
1.) On a recently wiped device, Setup Dropbox via Titanium Backup. *Make sure you are pointing to the correct folder on your Dropbox account.*
2.) Click on "Schedules"
3.) Click "Run" on the Sync to Dropbox option.
4.) If all the above was done correctly you should see files from Dropbox being downloaded to your device. This may take a while depending on how many applications you have.
5.) Once the download completes, Figure out where the files were restored. By default they should be in the TitaniumBackup folder on the root of your SD card.
6.) Go into Preferences in Titanium once the download from Dropbox is complete.
7.) Scroll down to "Backup folder location"
8.) Click on "DETECT"
9.) Select "SD Card". It should show you all directories with Titanium backup files.
10.) Select the folder that has the files you downloaded from Dropbox.
11.) Select "Use the current folder"
12.) Exit Titanium and go back in. You should now see all your applications from Dropbox when you select "Restore missing apps with data"
13.) Restore and enjoy.
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I just had trouble with this and figured out the key is to delete your titaniumbackup folder on your sd card and then go and restore and wala it downloads from your dropbox folder.
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I used Titanium Pro to back up all the apps and bloatware on my G2X. When I try to restore any of the ones I have un-installed the restore option is not there. I think it may have something to do with the external - internal sd card. I also keep loosing the icons to some of my apps (the ones on sd) inside the folder on my home screen. How do I restore these apps that I have backed up??
Ps I have used titanium many times on my rooted cliq with no problems.
my backups are on the internal sd.i've restored a few times with no problem i haven't updated mine though. using an older apk. i've read people are having issues here and there with titanium. so i'm sticking with my old version.
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I used Titanium Pro to back up all the apps and bloatware on my G2X. When I try to restore any of the ones I have un-installed the restore option is not there. I think it may have something to do with the external - internal sd card. I also keep loosing the icons to some of my apps (the ones on sd) inside the folder on my home screen. How do I restore these apps that I have backed up??
Ps I have used titanium many times on my rooted cliq with no problems.
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IMHO Titanium Backup has always been great with user apks, but very lacking with system apks. I'm not sure if it's trying to actually "install" system apks or what, but I've never had any luck with it.
Anyway, you should be able to just push the apks back to your /system/app/ from one of the roms or backups you can find here.
Have you checked the path to the folder that your backups are in with TB?
There is an option to change it in settings. You may have to reboot after changing it.
gonna give that a shot. Thanks.
Having trouble with my Titanium Backup. I backed up all my user apps + data, wiped and installed a new ROM. After getting it back up w/ new ROM, market, install titanium (w/ pro key) and go to restore apps. None of my backups show up. Batch > "Restore missing apps with data", shows 0 apps. When I go Preferences > Backup folder location it shows the folder (mnt/sdcard/TitaniumBackup) with all my backups it in, even says "This folder contains 62 backups".
Any help on how to restore these would be greatly appreciated.
lilaliend said:
Having trouble with my Titanium Backup. I backed up all my user apps + data, wiped and installed a new ROM. After getting it back up w/ new ROM, market, install titanium (w/ pro key) and go to restore apps. None of my backups show up. Batch > "Restore missing apps with data", shows 0 apps. When I go Preferences > Backup folder location it shows the folder (mnt/sdcard/TitaniumBackup) with all my backups it in, even says "This folder contains 62 backups".
Any help on how to restore these would be greatly appreciated.
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On the folder location screen choose detect and choose whole phone. It will search for the directory your backups are in. If that doesn't work then i'm guessing you may have formatted the location where your backups existed.
Try this..
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What happens when you install CM7 is that the sdcard directory now points to your external sd card rather then the internal that comes with the phone.
the internal is now at /mnt/emmc
Get root explorer and you will see what I'm talking about.
Once you have root explorer just copy the titanium backup folder from /mnt/emmc to /sdcard and you should be able to restore all user apps with data... however DO NOT restore system data from stock to CM7... big headaches.
Hope this helps!
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Hey guys, ive got little space left on my sd card in my nexus.
Can i format it? What do i do with the clockwork folder?
Thank you
If you do not intend to flash a new ROM then no you can't. I'm pretty sure you can if you flash a ROM, but remember to backup your photos and music first.
Is there a reason why you can't just delete some of your media or photos? If you've done a few nandroid backups in CWM you can delete any old ones in the app.
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Actually, after a few more seconds thought, if you've copied your music and photos onto your computer, I'm pretty sure you could do this:
1) do a complete nandroid backup
2) locate it, copy the entire directory to your computer
3) make a note of where it came from (the directory tree)
4) format your sdcard
5) copy your nandroid backup back to your sdcard making sure the directory structure is the same as before
6) restore your nandroid backup
There may be important catalogue files in the CWM directory, so it may be better to copy the entire CWM backup directory tree from its root.
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Ive tought the same thing. I deleted my old backups, then i backup music and photos (7gb~) theni copy the whole clockwork folder back to the telephone?
elinho said:
Ive tought the same thing. I deleted my old backups, then i backup music and photos (7gb~) theni copy the whole clockwork folder back to the telephone?
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To restore from a nandroid from complete stock just create a folder called clockworkmod. Inside that folder create another called backup. In that folder paste your old backup file. If you format the whole sd card some files and settings will be missing when you restore.
IMO its easier to copy all the files you want to your pc, then just go through your phone and delete all the files you don't use on a regular basis
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elinho said:
Ive tought the same thing. I deleted my old backups, then i backup music and photos (7gb~) theni copy the whole clockwork folder back to the telephone?
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I just did that, and it worked fine. Everything was te same as before the format. I only had 2gb of photos though. Maybe you should go through yours before copying back to your phone and weed out any you don't need.
I use the instant upload with G+ (WiFi Only) and as I take photos, they get uploaded to a private album. Once they're uploaded I delete them from the phone. Saves space .
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I use the instant upload with G+ (WiFi Only) and as I take photos, they get uploaded to a private album. Once they're uploaded I delete them from the phone. Saves space .
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Does it keep them at full Q? Been thinking about it but was waiting for G+ to allow Google Apps accounts
I understand the steps about using the "batch" and "restore apps with data" option.
But I'm new to Titanium backup. On my old ROM, I did a full backup of all the apps I wanted to keep.
Then I copied the backup folder to my computer.
Then formatted my SD card.
Now I have a new ROM.
So I reinstalled Titanium Backup.
Then copied the back-up folder to /sdcard/TitaniumBackup/.
But when I go to the batch restore option in TB, it says "no backup yet".
How do I get it to recognize the backup from before?
Open titanium press menu then prefrences then backup folder location then press detect then whole device it will search for your backups for you. When it finds them press use the current folder
pls help
me too with the same problem, didn't detect my bkp
silver03wrx said:
Open titanium press menu then prefrences then backup folder location then press detect then whole device it will search for your backups for you. When it finds them press use the current folder
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So, I rooted my new S3 today and was seemingly successful.
Now, I want to restore all of the applications that were on my Droid 2 (SD card is transferred into my S3).
When I connect the phone to my PC and look at the SD contents, I see all of my old apps and data.
However, when it's disconnected and I open Root Explorer or attempt to restore with Titanium Backup, all of the folders appear blank. I mean ALL of them. Music, DCIM, Tit Back ... seems to think there's nothing in anything.
Can someone clue me in?
RobinDean said:
So, I rooted my new S3 today and was seemingly successful.
Now, I want to restore all of the applications that were on my Droid 2 (SD card is transferred into my S3).
When I connect the phone to my PC and look at the SD contents, I see all of my old apps and data.
However, when it's disconnected and I open Root Explorer or attempt to restore with Titanium Backup, all of the folders appear blank. I mean ALL of them. Music, DCIM, Tit Back ... seems to think there's nothing in anything.
Can someone clue me in?
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In TiBU hit menu, select preferences, and there will be an option to select backup folder location. Then hit detect, and choose "whole device". It will find your backup folder. when it does, select the folder, and then hit use current folder.
... and there we go.
Thank you!
Same but bigger problem
I thought the same issue here, when I clicked on the scenario calculations tick, all the figures were 0.. then i did as per what u said, still same problem.. i even installed superuser again.. pls help..
*SORRY PROBLEM SOLVED! FILTER ISSUE* my bad...
Has anyone been able to get Titanium backup to backup to the removable storage? It wont let me navigate to my ext sd and will only backup to the on device storage! Can copy and paste to ext whenever I want to clean install a rom but kind of a pain!
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Has anyone been able to get Titanium backup to backup to the removable storage? It wont let me navigate to my ext sd and will only backup to the on device storage! Can copy and paste to ext whenever I want to clean install a rom but kind of a pain!
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First create a new folder on your sd card then copy all the backups to your new folder on the sd card.
1. Open Tibu, tab on the 3 stacked little boxes(most top right of the screen),
2. Select "preferences" from the drop down, scroll down to "backup folder location", tab to open,
3. Then tab on "detect" button, then tab on "whole device" button and it will find your new folder location,
4. Then hit the back button to bring you back to previous screen, your new path displayed and you tab on "use the current folder". you done.
If you've never made a backup, then you need to do the following:
In TiBu, Settings --> Preferences --> Backup folder location. Use the back key to navigate to /, then go to /Removable/MicroSD and then you can create a folder in there and use it as your backup location.
Took me a bit of a while to find the location.
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If you've never made a backup, then you need to do the following:
In TiBu, Settings --> Preferences --> Backup folder location. Use the back key to navigate to /, then go to /Removable/MicroSD and then you can create a folder in there and use it as your backup location.
Took me a bit of a while to find the location.
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+1
This is how I got mine working.
johnlgalt said:
If you've never made a backup, then you need to do the following:
In TiBu, Settings --> Preferences --> Backup folder location. Use the back key to navigate to /, then go to /Removable/MicroSD and then you can create a folder in there and use it as your backup location.
Took me a bit of a while to find the location.
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this solved my Tibu to ext sd card problem .. also off topic appreciate all your work for Bionic.... John Galt.. . rooted ics .232
You're welcome, and thanks in return for the props. I do what I can
Sorry to hijack this thread but I have a weird issue with Titanium Backup - have the paid version...
I want to set my preferred backup location to be on the micro SD but when I navigate to it Titanium backup says it is not writable and that the folder is empty.
I can write files toitin other apps and it is most definitely not empty, I have the install files for the ROM I'm using stored on it.
The ROM is CROMi-Xenogenesis 4.7.0- 10.16.1.14.8/WW DEODEX
Kernel is 3.1.10-hundsbuah-v3.4.5-oc-gaa752e8-dirty
Any ideas?
dang
berndblb said:
dang
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I guess that means you're stumped on that one then
fatboyinlycra said:
I guess that means you're stumped on that one then
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No, I posted in the wrong thread
How's the card formatted?
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berndblb said:
No, I posted in the wrong thread
How's the card formatted?
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FAT32.
It's a 64Gig SANDisk but it also happens on a 4gig and a 1 gig card, both of which are made by Kingston. Oddly enough every other app that writes data can write to these cards. It's only Titanium (paid version too) that seems to think the card is not writeable
Just upgraded to Cromi 5.4, still using Hunds F2FS kernel, but the issue still remains - cannot configure Titanium Backup to write to any Micro SD.
Anyone got any ideas?
ES File Explorer, the simple file explorer and other apps can all write to this card but not Titanium
fatboyinlycra said:
Just upgraded to Cromi 5.4, still using Hunds F2FS kernel, but the issue still remains - cannot configure Titanium Backup to write to any Micro SD.
Anyone got any ideas?
ES File Explorer, the simple file explorer and other apps can all write to this card but not Titanium
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I have exact setup as your and tibu is working fine for me.