Newly rooted xoom and have free Titanium backup installed and would like to backup to sd card but I cannot find an option to backup to the sd card. It is backing up to /mnt/sdcard/titaniumbackup now.
I cannot find an option to change it to the external sd card.
texasez said:
Newly rooted xoom and have free Titanium backup installed and would like to backup to sd card but I cannot find an option to backup to the sd card. It is backing up to /mnt/sdcard/titaniumbackup now.
I cannot find an option to change it to the external sd card.
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Create the folder on your sdcard first, then go to the options menu, backup folder...hit detect. It should detect the other folder then. If not you may have to backup a file and move it into the new folder first, then hit detect.
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Preferences, Backup Location, change to /sdcard/external/TitaniumBackup
Spaces are not supported.
I emailed TB support and found that I could hit the soft back key on the zoom and it would see all the files instread the few on the screen. I then found the file I would to backup in /mnt/sdcard/external and TB created the backup file there.
The key was finding that I could search for the file using the soft "back" button.
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I use MyBackup Pro and it can store its backups on an external SD card. I've searched but haven't been able to discover if Titanium has this same capability. If a phone needs to be replaced, what good is it to have the backup internally? I know I can perform a copy of the TitaniumBackup folder to my external SD card (or my PC) along with its files, but can it be done automagically as a program option during the backup?
Titanium allows you to change the name of the backup folder, so I went so far as to keep the TitaniumBackup folder name but point the folder location to the SD card (\sdcard\sd). No luck...unless my syntax is wrong.
So, in summary, I want to have the Titanium Backups deposited on my external SD card as part of the normal, one-step backup process. If it can't be done, I wonder why it hasn't been implemented as an option since it seems logical (at least to me ).
oh yes i would like this too, but can it be done?
Drop the sdcard and use a relative path. I have several directories on my external card. I have a main titanium directory with subdirectories for the roms I load..for example here's my current path:
sd/TitaniumBackup/JH7
Raleran said:
Drop the sdcard and use a relative path. I have several directories on my external card. I have a main titanium directory with subdirectories for the roms I load..for example here's my current path:
sd/TitaniumBackup/JH7
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Thank you! I just heard back from the developer and was about to post his reply (which equals yours). My backup is now at sd/TitaniumBackup.
For others, here's what you do - assuming you're using an external SD card. In Titanium's preferences change the backup folder name to sd/TitaniumBackup. If you need to exchange your device you can then put your SD card in your new phone and restore the backups contained therein.
Don't forget to delete the existing backups and TitaniumBackup folder that's, by default, internal to your phone. Then create your "portable" backups.
so after you make the change, when you open up and see stats page, backup directory should say: /sdcard/sd/titaniumbackup ?
clueless captivate said:
so after you make the change, when you open up and see stats page, backup directory should say: /sdcard/sd/titaniumbackup ?
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Yes, plus the first two directory items should read:
Data directory: /data
External storage: /sdcard (ok)
Okay so I just installed CM7 which worked fined and i was reading that i should partition my sd card. So I made a copy of my sd card on my computer and continued to partition my sd card 256/64. After the partition I just moved the file back to my sd card in recovery mode. I then rebooted which worked fine and syncd my google account. I installed simple2ext so i could move my cache to my sd card because i was unable to update rom manager and su or able to install any apps bigger than simple2ext. I installed titanium backup and noticed i had nothing to restore so I was going to go back to my original rom to back everything up again. I backed up cm7 then went to restore my original rom and all my previous roms I had backed up were gone.
Is there something I did worng? and am i able to get them back.
I did some searching and looked in my sd card from my computer and looked in clockwork folder and found my backup folder. I tired to move all of them back but said insufficient space and was only able to move one.
So now my question is did all my data from sd card not transfer over?
o noo that sucks man
if you made a rom backup, it would indeed be in the clockwork folder, as the progam that makes the backup is nandroid which is intergrated in the clockwork mod. Titanium backup is only for backing up loose apps and had nothing to do with rom backups.
If you still have the clockwork folder with the backups in them on your computer you should be fine. just transfer the one you want to use (they are named with dates and times) to the SD and go back into the recovery mode and use the restore option.
if you don't have enough space on your SD card, maybe you should make some available for the rom.
bl0m5t3r said:
if you made a rom backup, it would indeed be in the clockwork folder, as the progam that makes the backup is nandroid which is intergrated in the clockwork mod. Titanium backup is only for backing up loose apps and had nothing to do with rom backups.
If you still have the clockwork folder with the backups in them on your computer you should be fine. just transfer the one you want to use (they are named with dates and times) to the SD and go back into the recovery mode and use the restore option.
if you don't have enough space on your SD card, maybe you should make some available for the rom.
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Yup found them on the sd card on computer. But how come they did not transfer after I recopied the SD card?
Had the same thing happen to me when I was on my GNEX. I now enabled dropbox to keep backup copies as well.
Something similar happened to me when I tried a ROM with 4ex recovery in lieu of clockwork. when i tried to access my backup it told me something about invalid md5 sum and backup failed. like it didn't exist. If all is still on your PC perhaps you should reformat the card then re-partition using a different source, and re-try.
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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.
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!
mike1984jr said:
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.
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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+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.
Need to reset my wife's huwaie(sp?) G300 and format the sd card as it seems to have duplicated itself somehow!?! I've used mybackup to backup- can I simply copy the generated backup file to a laptop so that I can format the sdcard, then copy the backup (apk file?) back to the sdcard to restore the pics/apps etc?
Many thanks in advance!!
Use Titanium Backup application from Google play.
Install Titanium Backup and restore all installed apps including the data (like saved profiles of games) to sd card. The folder will be created on sd card as Titanium Backup. You can just copy and paste the images and videos manually from sd card to your pc along with the titanium backup folder.
Now you can format the sd card and reinstall apps from backup.
Hope this helped you.
NOTE: Titanium Backup requires root since it can backup and modify system apps too.
If your mobile doesn't have root use "App Backup and Restore" from Google play.