Is there a way to recover files from a backup I made before upgrading to Mango?
I tried restoring the backup to the phone but it does not work, my backup was from 7003 version. I only need to recover 3-4 office files (excel & notes).
Any way to decompress the contents of the backup to a folder instead of a phone device?
Opening the first DAT file on notepad shows: SHA1, AES, DSK1:IMGFS so contents are probably encrypted and in IMGFS file system format?
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Ive saved a backup of my contacts using PIM Backup because i have to change into a non-wm phone. is there a way to view the Backup file using my pc or symbian phone?
anyone knows how?
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I do believe you can export the contacts to csv format and many of the Contacts managing tools will allow importing of csv separated data.
Hope this helps
copy the pim backup file to your pc rename the file to a zip file eg. if its called pimbackup15072008.pib rename it to pimbackup15072008.zip. Once you have done this you can simply extract the files inside the zip then you can import them into any device that will accept csv files
Im wondering if someone can help me with my backup file which has an .nbf file extension. I use NTI backup to backup my files and save the *.nbf file to my external harddrive. I then re-format my computer. I can no longer access my .nbf file using the NTI backup recovery. Sorry, this is my first time to join a forum since I'm really disperate to recover all my files. Thank you.
i hope somsone can help ^^ i need it too
.nbf are file extensions from BACKUP NOW software.
You probably need to use their software to restore them.
.nbf file extension
Thank you Dark3n for your reply. Yes I did use NTI BACKUP NOW to backup all my files that is why I got this *.nbf file extension. The problem is I save all my .nbf files in my external harddrive and format my computer. I installed the NTI BACKUP NOW software again once I've done formatting my pc and then when I tried to retrieved my file through BACKUP NOW software it can't read my .nbf files. Is there any way I can extract the .nbf files? Thank you.
I have used Titanium backup pro version on my Atrix 2 to backup everything before flashing to ICS. The option of system+apps was chosen. It generated tons of files under the directory /sdcard/Titanium backup, total of ~900M zip files. Do the backup files contain everything? Is it safe to delete everything on my sdcard except the Titanium folder? If I do restore with just that folder, would it get me back everything?
No, you shouldn't delete EVERYTHING. I am not sure exactly what TB keeps and what it disregards, but don't expect to contain data from apps that save to various folders on the SD card. For example, if you backup Polaris Office, it will not backup the document files that are saved in the Documents folder. Backing up the gallery does not backup pics, Music.apk doesn't back up mp3 files, etc. Text messages and call logs are not backed up automatically either.
Be careful what you decide to delete. My advice, move everything to a pc except the Titanium Backup folder, and restore from there. You will know what is backed up and what is not.
Hi guys,
I just wish to know what if I try to restore my backup after deleting "Clockworkmod/blobs" folder from internal memory of my device? Would I be able to restore the ROM? Or "Blobs" folder is also important to restore the backup?
The size of Backup folder is just 12.4 MB and size of "Blobs" folder is 1.2 GB, so I am assuming that "Blobs" folder is also important to restore the backup?
Hi nice_guy75,
since Version 6 of CWM they use a new backup format.
Koushik Dutta (Koush) said:
New ClockworkMod Backup Format
ClockworkMod Recovery now deduplicates files between builds. This results in way smaller backups.
Don't delete /sdcard/clockworkmod/blobs
Overview
I've gotten a few questions about how this works, so I figured I'd make a post on it. Basically, here's what happens:
The files being backed up are hashed (sha256, not that it matters). Then it checks for a file with the name of the hash in
/sdcard/clockworkmod/blobs
So, if the hash of the file was c5273884b90d490134e7737b29a65405cea0f7bb786ca82c6337ceb24de6f5ed, it looks for /sdcard/clockworkmod/blobs/c5273884b90d490134e7737b29a65405cea0f7bb786ca82c6337ceb24de6f5ed
If the hash file is found, it continues on to the next file. Otherwise, it copies the file to the blobs directory with the file name being the hash.
ROMs and user data, for the most part, do not change too much between builds and backups. So, your APKs, system files, etc, are generally only stored once. This saves a ton of space. Especially between incremental backups.
Some of you may be thinking "well, how do I delete a backup?".
First, never delete the blobs directory. This would actually delete all your backups by rendering them unusable.
Simply delete the usual backup directory, and the next time you run a backup, all the unused hash files will be automatically delete (a process known as garbage collection). The recovery will show "Freeing space..." while this is happening.
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I am trying to extract the file mmssms.db from several nandroid (TWRP) backups of Nougat. I know that in Nougat this file was moved to "/data/user_de/0/com.android.providers.telephony/databases". I can browse to this file on my phone but if I browse through the contents of the data partition backup from the nandroid backup files (data.ext4.win00X) the path "/data/user_de/" does not exist. Can anyone tell me where this file can be found in a TWRP backup archive? Otherwise I will have to completely restore these backups one by one to pull each iteration of the file off the phone.
I think that TWRP doesn't backup this folder for the simple raison that Nougat is quite new.
Maybe it backups only a list of folders in /data (but I can't confirm it)
I got just ****ed right now, me too.