Just curious if anybody knows how or could direct me to instructions on how to backup my entire gtab (the whole disk, not just one partition or another, all of them) to PC just so in the event I explode my gtabs partition table or mkfs the wrong partition in it due to inexcusable and wreckless tinkering, I would always have images of the various partitions in their correct form.
Something like a dd would be fine, my pc has plenty of disk space to store however many 16gb images I want.
I have clockwork mod and recognize that it can do this for me, but saving a disk image onto the same disk just makes my spidey sense tingle..
Preferably windows instructions if possible.
rswindle,
Here is what I do:
1. Go into the clockwork mod and select Backup and Restore --> Choose Backup and this should backup the entire tab (done it many times now).
2. Reboot, connect to USB as you do regularly, allow necessary access to copy files from and to GTab (depending on the ROM you use, either Tnt or VeGan).
3. Go into windows (xp is what i used), you gtab should be seen as an usb device and assigned a drive letter (typically F:\).
4. Go into clockworkmod within F drive, copy the entire backup folder to another location within your windows machine.
5. Now unmount the usb drive from Gtab and from windows icon.
6. unplug the usb cable.
7. Go into g-tab into cwm and do whatever you want and again you can copy the backup folder into Gtab back.
Hope this explains.
same with TB
satishraman said:
rswindle,
Here is what I do:
1. Go into the clockwork mod and select Backup and Restore --> Choose Backup and this should backup the entire tab (done it many times now).
2. Reboot, connect to USB as you do regularly, allow necessary access to copy files from and to GTab (depending on the ROM you use, either Tnt or VeGan).
3. Go into windows (xp is what i used), you gtab should be seen as an usb device and assigned a drive letter (typically F:\).
4. Go into clockworkmod within F drive, copy the entire backup folder to another location within your windows machine.
5. Now unmount the usb drive from Gtab and from windows icon.
6. unplug the usb cable.
7. Go into g-tab into cwm and do whatever you want and again you can copy the backup folder into Gtab back.
Hope this explains.
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Do you do this with Titanium Backup also?
satishraman said:
rswindle,
Here is what I do:
1. Go into the clockwork mod and select Backup and Restore --> Choose Backup and this should backup the entire tab (done it many times now).
2. Reboot, connect to USB as you do regularly, allow necessary access to copy files from and to GTab (depending on the ROM you use, either Tnt or VeGan).
3. Go into windows (xp is what i used), you gtab should be seen as an usb device and assigned a drive letter (typically F:\).
4. Go into clockworkmod within F drive, copy the entire backup folder to another location within your windows machine.
5. Now unmount the usb drive from Gtab and from windows icon.
6. unplug the usb cable.
7. Go into g-tab into cwm and do whatever you want and again you can copy the backup folder into Gtab back.
Hope this explains.
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Very simple and concise, thanks!
Nope, I do use TB (mainly I use for market reset), but not for backups. This way I found easier.
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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.
Hi, I'm a bit confused about the various backup tools in Android. (I've got a rooted Galaxy S3 with a old custom rom, which I'm planning to wipe everything and switch to CyanogenMod.)
Is there a way to take an complete "image" (like Clonezilla, etc) of my phone, so that if I mess things up, I can restore my phone to the exact state of the backup?
Here is what I've researched on the net, which I'm confused about:
- If I go to CWM recovery and do a backup there (is it a "nandroid" backup?) then I think it gets the "Operating System" part of the phone, but doesnt include the internal SD Card storage? (which is a problem because most apps store their data there, and won't recover properly if it's been wiped?)
- Titanium backup can backup my apps, SMS, contacts etc, but it won't do the "Operating System", so it won't backup my ROM?
- There's also the ADB backup command, is it more complete that the other two methods? I tried it on my Ubuntu 14 machine and I'm not sure it's working properly, though. It ran for a while and just stopped with no progress indicators or any other feedback on its success. Do I need to be in "Fastboot mode" or "recovery mode" to do it? Or just the regular phone mode?
So anyway, is there any sort of all-in-one backup I can do, so that if I mess up my factory reset + upgrade to CyanogenMod, I can restore my phone perfectly to its original condition?
Unlike a PC, where I can test restore to a Virtual Machine or spare computer, I don't have any spare phones to experiment with, so I'm a bit afraid of messing up. Is there any way of verifying that my backup is valid?
Thanks!
Any program that does partition/disk loning can do that, provided the phone/device can be put into appropriate mode and has device drivers installed on connected computer. I, actually, just put a prerooted firmware on my second phone, because nothing else works.
To answer your question, before I put new firmware on, I backed up total original state of the phone using a program called HDD Raw Copy Tool. See it here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=59608776&postcount=3
Thanks, that's very interesting.
I'm not sure about the "drivers" for my Galaxy S3 that would enable me to see it's storage like a harddrive, though. Is it just the regular MTP / Mass Storage Device drivers? Or something special?
Is there a linux solution? I guess I would use DD, but not sure how to access the phone's complete storage...
Windows 7 installed (rather swiftly) drivers upon first connecting. My guesses are either those were generic USB drivers or the previously installed phone drivers were utilized. I simply mention drivers in advance, in case they become an issue. Either way, the phone shows as a standard USB storage drive in Windows, albeit unreadable by the system (because of EXT filesystem).
DD will probably work, as the phone would simply be a hard/flash drive at that point.
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
So, my brother backed up my Samsung Galaxy S4 on his laptop about 3 years ago. Can't remember the program used. He gave me the backup file yesterday.
(I screenshotted the file name and attached it here titled " FILE BACKUP TITLE.PNG")
I edited the file, to a .exe. (eg “Samsung SM-G350E_20191001_103009.bak” delete the bak and write exe after the dot and press enter.) That way I can access everything through winrar. However all of the files are encrypted! We have no idea what the password is, what shall I do! (Attached the password screen in winrar titled " RAR.PNG")
It has 1000's of photos from 2014-2017, I have no idea on what to do. I've checked out brute forcing, but I wasn't sure how to do it.
Thanks.
AkiraPerera04 said:
So, my brother backed up my Samsung Galaxy S4 on his laptop about 3 years ago. Can't remember the program used. He gave me the backup file yesterday.
(I screenshotted the file name and attached it here titled " FILE BACKUP TITLE.PNG")
I edited the file, to a .exe. (eg “Samsung SM-G350E_20191001_103009.bak” delete the bak and write exe after the dot and press enter.) That way I can access everything through winrar. However all of the files are encrypted! We have no idea what the password is, what shall I do! (Attached the password screen in winrar titled " RAR.PNG")
It has 1000's of photos from 2014-2017, I have no idea on what to do. I've checked out brute forcing, but I wasn't sure how to do it.
Thanks.
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What method was used to create the backup? It may require using the same tool that created it to decrypt it, but, without the password, you're pretty much screwed.
Whatever he used, it isn't the best way of backing up android devices. Methods typically used to backup/manage PC's are not suggested for android. ADB and custom recovery are the recommended methods of backing up android, you take your chances with any other method, as you have discovered.
For future reference, backing up your internal storage such as photos, videos and personal files doesn't require any special tools or methods, all you have to do is connect to PC, open your phones internal storage on PC and then copy all the folders there and save them on your PC in whatever folder you choose, no encryption is necessary. Then, all you have to do to retrieve data from that backup is open the folder containing the backup and everything will be there for you to copy/paste/move/open/delete the same as you can with any other file on PC.
Transferring data from that backup folder to a new device is as simple as connecting the new device to PC, opening the backup folder then copying everything in the folder then opening the internal storage of the new device on PC and then pasting the contents of the backup into the internal storage of the new device. It is virtually no different than copying files from one USB drive to another USB drive, you are just going it with phones instead of USB drives.
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Droidriven said:
What method was used to create the backup? It may require using the same tool that created it to decrypt it, but, without the password, you're pretty much screwed.
Whatever he used, it isn't the best way of backing up android devices. Methods typically used to backup/manage PC's are not suggested for android. ADB and custom recovery are the recommended methods of backing up android, you take your chances with any other method, as you have discovered.
For future reference, backing up your internal storage such as photos, videos and personal files doesn't require any special tools or methods, all you have to do is connect to PC, open your phones internal storage on PC and then copy all the folders there and save them on your PC in whatever folder you choose, no encryption is necessary. Then, all you have to do to retrieve data from that backup is open the folder containing the backup and everything will be there for you to copy/paste/move/open/delete the same as you can with any other file on PC.
Transferring data from that backup folder to a new device is as simple as connecting the new device to PC, opening the backup folder then copying everything in the folder then opening the internal storage of the new device on PC and then pasting the contents of the backup into the internal storage of the new device. It is virtually no different than copying files from one USB drive to another USB drive, you are just going it with phones instead of USB drives.
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Thanks for your response, I thought nobody was going to reply.
We can't remember. All I remember is that my custom rom s4 (android 4) was hooked up to our mac laptop. Then we backed it up using some kind of backup program. Then it was updated to android 8.
Yeah I understand now, but at the time we were fairly new to the whole android scene. I have an s7 edge now, I just back everything up on google photos and the regular cloud service. What should I do? I really want those files back.
Thanks.
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I have several old Android phones that will mount a USB Flash connected with an OTG cable; however, the backup app built-in to their versions of Android does not offer the option of doing a backup and directing the files to the external USB Flash drive.
I have tried several Backup apps from Google Play Store, but none of them seem to offer backup to the external USB Flash.
File manager apps like Ghost Commander and Total Commander can access the USB Flash drive without a problem.
Can anyone recommend a Backup app that will allow backup to the OTG connected USB Flash for Android versions 6 - 9 ???
If not, can anyone tell me what directories I should include in a manual file copy using one of the file managers above to manually do backups by copying files and directories ???
TIA
I managed to find one program that claims this capability.
My Backup by Rerware LLC.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rerware.android.MyBackup
Does anyone here have any experience with this app ???
Have a similar issue - only I want to backup/sync photos (DCIM folder) to an OTG USB drive. Your suggested app did not work for me. Similary I also have found only 1 app that does work (was mentioned in one 2012 forum thread that I cannot find at the moment..):
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.lite
The main downside - it is seriously packed with disturbing adds (so I'm looking for something better)! (Nope - it worked fine on the SD card, but does not work on USB OTG!)