Hi.
I want to flash anew.
I want to backup my apps.
I do not have an external SD card (i mean - i do, i just don't use it, it's in my drawer collecting dust).
I see that I can backup apps with Titanium.
But - once I will flash, these backups will all be wiped, will they not?
THANK YOU !
Why not just copy the titanium backup folder to your computer first? Flash your rom then once you get your phone running copy the folder back to your phone. Reinstall titanium backup and restore as needed. Titanium also comes with dropbox built in which can be pretty useful.
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e4e5nf3nc6 said:
Why not just copy the titanium backup folder to your computer first? Flash your rom then once you get your phone running copy the folder back to your phone. Reinstall titanium backup and restore as needed. Titanium also comes with dropbox built in which can be pretty useful.
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Great! Will do that! Thanks!
benyben123 said:
Hi.
I want to flash anew.
I want to backup my apps.
I do not have an external SD card (i mean - i do, i just don't use it, it's in my drawer collecting dust).
I see that I can backup apps with Titanium.
But - once I will flash, these backups will all be wiped, will they not?
THANK YOU !
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Only if you format your internal sd card I mean that's common sense get a clue
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ZeroT| Demented said:
Only if you format your internal sd card I mean that's common sense get a clue
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Yea I guess you are right....
Just didn't think of it since I thought I am suppose to format the SD card every time I flash. I also didn't know that TB saves its files to the SD card.
Thanks
ZeroT| Demented said:
Only if you format your internal sd card I mean that's common sense get a clue
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Dude what is your problem. Sometimes people don't know as much as you. This is why they come here and ask questions. They don't need to be ridiculed for not knowing how to do something. I wouldn't ridicule you for losing for instance some chess games against me. I would instead assume you haven't spent thousands of hours studying it and be fine with that instead of throwing it in your face. You have a problem. I've been coming to these forums for maybe 2 weeks and I've seen some negative or condescending thing from you over and over. Read the rules and adhere to them or kindly leave. That is all.
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Dude what is your problem. Sometimes people don't know as much as you. This is why they come here and ask questions. They don't need to be ridiculed for not knowing how to do something. I wouldn't ridicule you for losing for instance some chess games against me. I would instead assume you haven't spent thousands of hours studying it and be fine with that instead of throwing it in your face. You have a problem. I've been coming to these forums for maybe 2 weeks and I've seen some negative or condescending thing from you over and over. Read the rules and adhere to them or kindly leave. That is all.
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I'll school you in a game of chess!
If you got chesspresso installed lets play a game sometime.
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Not going to waste my time bud.
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Not to be rude but if you could beat me I would know who you are. I sort of make part of my living giving private lessons.
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Only if you format your internal sd card I mean that's common sense get a clue
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Why are you always a ****? Get a clue and lose the damn attitude.
I swear you sound just like a guy that was banned with a very similar name.
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Not going to waste my time bud.
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The Ruy Lopez hah!
I keeeeeel you!
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Only if you format your internal sd card I mean that's common sense get a clue
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Firstly, Your Rude, Secondly you don't have a clue because you are completely wrong and clearly cannot read.
The OP had clearly stated he did not have an SD Card (but COULD), so if you did a full backup to internal memory (because of no SD Card).
Then yes, if you flash (as most require format/wipe, cache, and dalvik) you would also wipe your backup. Those with devices with no SD Card support should take care to copy the backup files manually to another device for later use.
I was searching for the question of "How to use Titanium Backup before flashing to a new ROM?"
However my question remains unanswered...
I have a custom ROM already installed, with all my apps and configuration etc, I want to try a new ROM to test something, then revert back to the ROM I am using now,
Does Titanium Backup create a restore point image, that I can restore later, and as such carry on using my device where I had it at the point of backup?
If not an image, then is the functionality I am looking for available?
Many Thanks,
Robert Readman
I don't believe titanium offers the feature you are looking for. It does have a feature that creates a flashable zip to to flash all your apps backcto the phone...however this feature has never worked for me lol. I always have to restore my apps the old fashioned way with the batch options restore. Like you,I did not have a SD card when I first flashed my phone. To get around this issue I created a backup with cwm and moved it to my PC for safe keeping. DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID and transfer the backup to PC via USB cable....if you do this the md5 sum will become corrupt. I don't know why but nandroids are sensitive in the way they handled/moved across platforms. Download the free app from the market called Airdroid. It connects your phone to your PC through a wireless LAN connection. It takes a little longer to transfer the boot image since its a large file but its MUCH safer. When you do transfer the nandroid to your PC its very important to not change ANYTHING in the file, especially the name. Change nothing! Otherwise you will mess up the md5. If you do get aa corrupt md5 like I did there is a tutorial on this site somewhere that walks you through the process of fixing it but it was a pain in the a** so use airdroid lol. Hope this helped.
Ps- having a SD card makes like much easier in the world of flashing/android Modding. Even a small one is worth it. Best of luck
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Pain-N-Panic said:
DO NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE I DID and transfer the backup to PC via USB cable....if you do this the md5 sum will become corrupt. I don't know why but nandroids are sensitive in the way they handled/moved across platforms.
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Thanks for this Pain-N-Panic, I am not sure, but it maybe something to do with transferring in binary / ASCII modes, similar to an issue you come across with FTP, so it is very plausible as an issue but someone with more knowledge of this would need to comment.
My solution which should help, is to go into Terminal Emulator, and use tar to create an archive.
Example...
type 'pwd' (for present working directory), it should be root by default '/'
in my case, i have /sdcard/ as a symlink to /storage/primary/legacy/
so then type 'cd' (for change directory) to the location of your sd card storage.
then typing 'tar -cvf file.tar ./folder/' c for create, v for verbose, f for file, then the file to create, and the folder.
Search for use of tar online, if you require more information.
Code:
cd /sdcard/
tar -cvf TitaniumBackup.tar /sdcard/TitaniumBackup/
You can then transfer your TitaniumBackup.tar with all file ownership, permissions and even file / folder timestamps are stored, for restoring the folder later.
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I decided to install Clean Rom 4.0 Dev edition so I did a quick tibu, then booted into twrp and made a nandroid of my current setup
I then went to install DE clearing caches and /data
I went to install the rom and it wasn't there
the only thing on my SD card was my backup and it was corrupted.
I plugged my phone in and mounted the sd card and my computer said it was unreadable so I had to format it
I love starting over
I had cwm originally and randomly lost files off my sd card or were corrupted after mounting as usb so switched to twrp and have had the same problems with losing random files and corruption of files. So I don't think it's specific to the recovery its something else that's causing it. Wish I new what it was because it's quite annoying. I've resorted to only transfering files via dropbox or lan with es file explorer but it's definitely a pain when transferring a Rom.
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enabling titanium backup sync to dropbox saved my ass.
Titanium backup is the best andriod app I have ever bought, period.
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enabling titanium backup sync to dropbox saved my ass.
Titanium backup is the best andriod app I have ever bought, period.
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QFT. while I've never had to pull a backup from the cloud I'm glad to have it as an option more than ever seeing as I no longer have an ext SD.
I also started syncing my photos to dropbox every day or so i can't lose those either.
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enabling titanium backup sync to dropbox saved my ass.
Titanium backup is the best andrios app I have ever bought, period.
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I have it set up as well luckily that's one set files that I have never lost. It's weird there's no rhyme or reason to what gets wiped I've lost pictures data apps that I had saved copies of on my card data from apps. I just don't get it. I wonder if it's actually the internal sd card that's wonky or some way the usb is being handled when mounting.
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regP said:
QFT. while I've never had to pull a backup from the cloud I'm glad to have it as an option more than ever seeing as I no longer have an ext SD.
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Well I don't have to pull it from the cloud since it syncs to my desktop automatically but man it saves you from having to remember to do it.
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I have it set up as well luckily that's one set files that I have never lost. It's weird there's no rhyme or reason to what gets wiped I've lost pictures data apps that I had saved copies of on my card data from apps. I just don't get it. I wonder if it's actually the internal sd card that's wonky or some way the usb is being handled when mounting.
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I've wondered the same thing... It might not be recovery related since it happens with both.
That's odd, because I just flashed TWRP 2.1.7 yesterday and I was unable to wipe my SD card. I had to boot into the system and 'Delete Phone Storage' through the settings menu. Nothing would happen when I would try to wipe through TWRP.
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That's odd, because I just flashed TWRP 2.1.7 yesterday and I was unable to wipe my SD card. I had to boot into the system and 'Delete Phone Storage' through the settings menu. Nothing would happen when I would try to wipe through TWRP.
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Lol your trying to wipe your sd card can't and ours are being wiped inadvertently
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gunnyman said:
I decided to install Clean Rom 4.0 Dev edition so I did a quick tibu, then booted into twrp and made a nandroid of my current setup
I then went to install DE clearing caches and /data
I went to install the rom and it wasn't there
the only thing on my SD card was my backup and it was corrupted.
I plugged my phone in and mounted the sd card and my computer said it was unreadable so I had to format it
I love starting over
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Go to cnet.com and download Recuva. Then do a deep scan and it will recover the stuff you lost... worked for me
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I had the same problems with my internal storage on HTC Touch Diamond. I lost a lot of files with that phone. With the HTC One X I have only lost a few Pictures that got corrupted, I think it all has to do with continuous flashing ROMs
Ahh, I hate this bug!! I've lost several things and have had tons of pics become corrupted.
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I just lost a few photo's today. First time I've encountered this bug. Guess its time to get dropbox and have it sync my photo's and tibu stuff.
I'm pretty damn paranoid, so I've started doing an SD Card dump right before flashing a ROM using ADB.
$ adb pull /sdcard/
Probably overkill, since I have almost everything important backed up somewhere, but I'd rather take the extra thirty minutes and make sure I don't lose anything permanently.
Only thing I was out was time. I back up my photos to drop box and Google plus.
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Only thing I was out was time. I back up my photos to drop box and Google plus.
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Makes sense. Drop Box backup is the ****. :good:
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Makes sense. Drop Box backup is the ****. :good:
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indeed it is. I'm going to start putting my nandroids there too
Pumpiron579 said:
I had the same problems with my internal storage on HTC Touch Diamond. I lost a lot of files with that phone. With the HTC One X I have only lost a few Pictures that got corrupted, I think it all has to do with continuous flashing ROMs
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This is also my theory.
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gunnyman said:
indeed it is. I'm going to start putting my nandroids there too
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Is there a way to backup a whole folder with the dropbox phone app? Like... For instance I'd like to upload the entire TWRP folder. I couldn't find a way easily.
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Is there a way to backup a whole folder with the dropbox phone app? Like... For instance I'd like to upload the entire TWRP folder. I couldn't find a way easily.
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I just drag them from my phone to my dropbox folder on the computer and it syncs
the downer is there's no way to move a whole folder from dropbox to the phone, from the phone
I'm thinking of changing my rom and I've read that when I do that I'll lose the pictures I took with the camera. Is there an app that you can use to save those and change roms? Thanks for any replies..
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When flashing a new ROM the contence of your SD card should not be affected. If you want to be really anal about it, just plug your phone to a pc, mount and transfer the pictures your self. They will be located in the folder named " DCIM".
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MrMiami81 said:
I'm thinking of changing my rom and I've read that when I do that I'll lose the pictures I took with the camera. Is there an app that you can use to save those and change roms? Thanks for any replies..
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You could sync it with a dropbox... 5 gigs should be a good amount for photos
oksimoron said:
When flashing a new ROM the contence of your SD card should not be affected. If you want to be really anal about it, just plug your phone to a pc, mount and transfer the pictures your self. They will be located in the folder named " DCIM".
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"Should not be affected" with "should" being the key word here. The SD contents are not supposed to be touched when flashing a ROM. But in reality, they can be. Many folks, including myself have had random instances of various files, or the entire internal SD being wiped or corrupted when flashing things from recovery. Nobody has been able to figure out why, or fix it. Might be recovery, but it happens with both CWM and TWRP (with TWRP being the recommended recovery, of course), so might be a bug with the phone itself.
In any case, I would urge you to backup anything you consider irreplaceable prior to flashing anything from recovery. This includes photos and videos you've taken, and your Titanium Backup folder, and anything else not easily replaced.
I've had the file corruption problem happen at least 3 times. I flash ROMs occasionally, but not a flash addict. So for me, I'd say the issue with files being corrupted has happened as much 20% (maybe more) of the times I flash something. So I'd say at least for my phone, backing up before flashing is far from being "anal". Yeah, its a bit of a pain to have to backup things every time you want to flash something. But better than crying about losing pics or other files if/when they are lost.
automatic uploading to my dropbox via dropbox app ftw
Yup, I can vouch for dropbox as well.
i am on cm9 and im about to flash liquid smoothn. so after i flash can i just delete cm9 on my sd card so i can have more room on my sd card
yes you can delete the rom you are not using dude no different then any other file
But you might think about making a nandroid backup and maybe keeping that either on the SD card or on your computer.
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But you might think about making a nandroid backup and maybe keeping that either on the SD card or on your computer.
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I agree. Having something to flash can save you -should something major go wrong while you're out. Keep the backup on SD.
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I agree. Having something to flash can save you -should something major go wrong while you're out. Keep the backup on SD.
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+1 on keeping a nandroid. It can save you more than you'll ever dream at some point.
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Hi everyone,
I'm looking to remove some of my old excess folders off my SD Card and I was wondering if anyone knew what the stock folders are I should be keeping or if it's ok to wipe the SD card? Wasn't really sure if it was ok or not to do so and thought I should ask..
Thanks!
You can wipe the SD-card within android. Its safe and wont make the card unusable or anything like that.
Just remember to save the stuff you want to keep before formatting it
Thanks for the info. I wasn't so sure as I came from a HTC Desire and ended up using ROM's that dumped half the system onto the SD card so was a bit wary with that.. :S
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Thanks for the info. I wasn't so sure as I came from a HTC Desire and ended up using ROM's that dumped half the system onto the SD card so was a bit wary with that.. :S
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I think any apps that is installed to sd will be deleted so make sure none are.
How?
How can I wipe the card?
I often tried some apps, and now I installed CM so it would be great to have an "empty" SD.
Is there any tool which logs all folders/files that have been created when an app has been installed?
Piccolo1986 said:
How can I wipe the card?
I often tried some apps, and now I installed CM so it would be great to have an "empty" SD.
Is there any tool which logs all folders/files that have been created when an app has been installed?
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Setting/storage and you should see it there.
Thanks
that was a good hint.
And what about a tool?
Piccolo1986 said:
that was a good hint.
And what about a tool?
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Em tool to do what?
I forgot to say
Like I said in my last post:
Is there any tool which logs all folders/files that have been created when an app has been installed?
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Like I said in my last post:
Is there any tool which logs all folders/files that have been created when an app has been installed?
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Think adb can do that but why would you need to know that?
i would make a back up of your sdcard to your pc before doing anything
Backup not the best solution...
especially when you "on the road". Sometimes when I'm outside (waiting for the bus or so) I've time to look around in the play store. Screenshots are nice, but it's always better when you try an app on your own.
But once installed you see "oh that one is crap" you want to uninstall it, but the folders that has been created are still there. So it would be nice if there would be a app that watches for the changings during installation and you are able to delete all the folders and files of the crappy app.
If you delete data before uninstalling the app everything should disappear.
Actually, I think its only if you uninstall through play store the data is kept.
TitaniumBackup will remove all of it when using it to uninstall stuff.
I may be posting in the wrong thread so if that is the case plz let me know.
So, I want to install another rom in my phone and as we all know I guess, that means that I will lose my apps. Although I can use titanium backup to restore them afterwards, this time, the problem is that I dont have enough space to do the backup as usual... And I already own an 8gb sd card so dont tell me to buy a bigger one(if I do I will download even more games to play xD)... So, could I somehow make a backup of my apps into my pc, since it is the only place where I have enough space? Oh and I want also to have the data of each app( I am on a limited data plan for a couple of months)
Any solution will be greatly appreciated
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Mokiwipeout said:
I may be posting in the wrong thread so if that is the case plz let me know.
So, I want to install another rom in my phone and as we all know I guess, that means that I will lose my apps. Although I can use titanium backup to restore them afterwards, this time, the problem is that I dont have enough space to do the backup as usual... And I already own an 8gb sd card so dont tell me to buy a bigger one(if I do I will download even more games to play xD)... So, could I somehow make a backup of my apps into my pc, since it is the only place where I have enough space? Oh and I want also to have the data of each app( I am on a limited data plan for a couple of months)
Any solution will be greatly appreciated
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Remove some items from your sd card n make dwm backup then later u can place the cwm backup on ur pc
n can restore later
I've got two easy solutions to your problem:
- try out Carbon and find if it's able to back everything (app+data) durectly on your PC (personally I prefer TitaniumBackPRO and I've never used Carbon, but a friend of mine told me that he uses it to backup+restore stuff)
- try to create not just one single big and heavy backup with Titanium BackUp but...just more than one!
I mean, you can select to backup half of the apps+data you've got in your phone in one backup, upload it to Dropbox/Drive/Box...and then do the other half-backup of apps+data of your phone.
Maybe it's not that fast but it's easy...and you don't have to use any other apps than the one you've already on your smartphone.
Cheers!
Mokiwipeout said:
I may be posting in the wrong thread so if that is the case plz let me know.
So, I want to install another rom in my phone and as we all know I guess, that means that I will lose my apps. Although I can use titanium backup to restore them afterwards, this time, the problem is that I dont have enough space to do the backup as usual... And I already own an 8gb sd card so dont tell me to buy a bigger one(if I do I will download even more games to play xD)... So, could I somehow make a backup of my apps into my pc, since it is the only place where I have enough space? Oh and I want also to have the data of each app( I am on a limited data plan for a couple of months)
Any solution will be greatly appreciated
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Have you looked into the cloud solutions TitaniumBackupPRO has? I've used it with Google Drive and it worked very well.
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JaronRH said:
Have you looked into the cloud solutions TitaniumBackupPRO has? I've used it with Google Drive and it worked very well.
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This is what I would suggest... if you don't mind spending a little money.
Mokiwipeout said:
I may be posting in the wrong thread so if that is the case plz let me know.
So, I want to install another rom in my phone and as we all know I guess, that means that I will lose my apps. Although I can use titanium backup to restore them afterwards, this time, the problem is that I dont have enough space to do the backup as usual... And I already own an 8gb sd card so dont tell me to buy a bigger one(if I do I will download even more games to play xD)... So, could I somehow make a backup of my apps into my pc, since it is the only place where I have enough space? Oh and I want also to have the data of each app( I am on a limited data plan for a couple of months)
Any solution will be greatly appreciated
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Helium app should dao it for you. Afaik you will be able to back up your app apk as well as the app data. Search for it on google play. You will have to download Helium app for your PC as well. That will enable you to backup stuff to PC.
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Why not just get another SD card lol. I would delete my old backups if you don't need them and transfer the files I have on the SD card now to the PC. Then I'd use titanium backup and save then transfer that contents to my PC.
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You could try Titanium Backup its gr8 but you need a pro version.