Just trying to save space cause I'm a crack flasher. Wasn't sure if this was an option vs doing it manually.
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I don't see that option but it would be nice to be able to do that.
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It's...already included in CWM. When you boot into recovery manually, there's two options to backup: internal and external. How are you booting into recovery?
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Just trying to save space cause I'm a crack flasher. Wasn't sure if this was an option vs doing it manually.
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Choose backup to external sd. I always do because if something goes wrong with my phone I want the backups accessible on my sd
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if your external sd kicks the bucket you're screwed (which happened already to me)/
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Just trying to save space cause I'm a crack flasher. Wasn't sure if this was an option vs doing it manually.
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Also make sure your sd is formatted to fat32
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if your external sd kicks the bucket you're screwed (which happened already to me)/
I use foldersync to mirror it on the external sd//
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You are correct. Im gonna have to look to into foldersync
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It's...already included in CWM. When you boot into recovery manually, there's two options to backup: internal and external. How are you booting into recovery?
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I've been booting into recovery by pressing the power button and then selecting reboot-recovery.
I'm using cwm touch and will look for the setting there to save to external. Right now its using like 4 GB on my internal.
I've already saved the file to my laptop in case some thing should happen.
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I've been booting into recovery by pressing the power button and then selecting reboot-recovery.
I'm using cwm touch and will look for the setting there to save to external. Right now its using like 4 GB on my internal.
I've already saved the file to my laptop in case some thing should happen.
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Hmm, well I'm using CWM 6 (non touch) and I can choose where to backup once I select "Backup." I don't know why that would be missing from the touch version if it is. That's an odd omission unless it's a paid feature with rom manager but you're not using that.
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Hmm, well I'm using CWM 6 (non touch) and I can choose where to backup once I select "Backup." I don't know why that would be missing from the touch version if it is. That's an odd omission unless it's a paid feature with rom manager but you're not using that.
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I'm not saying its not there, I just never t
knew it was an option.
Once I move the backup to my external can I just delete the cwm folder to free up space on my internal??
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I'm not saying its not there, I just never t
knew it was an option.
Once I move the backup to my external can I just delete the cwm folder to free up space on my internal??
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You have to make sure you copy the blobs folder too because you'll lose your backup if you don't
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I'm not saying its not there, I just never t
knew it was an option.
Once I move the backup to my external can I just delete the cwm folder to free up space on my internal??
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Yea, I only delete backups using CWM though if I'm still considering using the space for a backup in the future.
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I made a backup of my current setup on my external card just now. Can I copy other backups from my internal to my SD, along with my blobs folder??
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I made a backup of my current setup on my external card just now. Can I copy other backups from my internal to my SD, along with my blobs folder??
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I dont think it will let you becaue the blob folder has folder like 001 and 002 so I think it'll overwrite of you try to merge them together therefore making them not able to restore correctly. This is the reason I started using TWRP because you can just move backups with ease because their in their own folder.
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mpetruzz said:
I made a backup of my current setup on my external card just now. Can I copy other backups from my internal to my SD, along with my blobs folder??
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I'm going to say NO unless you:
1) delete the backup and blob folders you just created on your external sd card
2) copy your internal sd card backup/blob folder and move them to your external sd
3) make another backup to your external sd card
The blob folder contains data pertinent to the CWM backup you made and since you have backup/blob folders on both internal and external, you can't just copy it over your have to delete one pair (CWM backup and entire blob folder) or the other before moving both folders over. Don't mix and match folders.
I've haven't done this so if you have issues restoring a backup in the future, you know why they are messed up if you do this. If anyone thinks my logic above is flawed or correct please feel free to sound off. I'm not 100% sure in my answer.
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edit* slimsnoop is correct, the nandroid will come up system error when trying to restore with a different blobs folder!
Thanks for that info!! I made a backup to my external. I checked the folder and there is the backup along with a blobs folder.
I backed up the same ROM that's on the internal. I can just delete that now and use the backup on my external without any issues correct??
I'm gonna copy the cwm folder info to my laptop before deleting just in case.
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Thanks for that info!! I made a backup to my external. I checked the folder and there is the backup along with a blobs folder.
I backed up the same ROM that's on the internal. I can just delete that now and use the backup on my external without any issues correct??
I'm gonna copy the cwm folder info to my laptop before deleting just in case.
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Correct. As long as you made a new backup and CWM points to external just delete internal folder.
Cool. I think I'll do that. I didn't realize it took up so much memory. When I looked at the properties folder and saw that CWM was almost 4 GB o almost crapped my pants!!!
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Cool. I think I'll do that. I didn't realize it took up so much memory. When I looked at the properties folder and saw that CWM was almost 4 GB o almost crapped my pants!!!
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Yea each backup is about a gig
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Since I'm a crackflasher I had quite a few!! I deleted all my old ones so its not as bad anymore.
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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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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
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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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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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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.
So I'm wondering how to do this since cwm uses blobs now and RM doesn't read nandroids on external SD card, only internal storage.
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tu3218 said:
So I'm wondering how to do this since cwm uses blobs now and RM doesn't read nandroids on external SD card, only internal storage.
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Use a file browser, navigate to /mnt/extSdCard(or sdcard1)/clockworkmod and delete them...
Brian Gove said:
Use a file browser, navigate to /mnt/extSdCard(or sdcard1)/clockworkmod and delete them...
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to my knowledge you don't want to touch the blob files as they may be linked to multiple Nandroids. Rather if you delete the backups from the /backup folder (the ones with the dates) the next time CWM boots to make a recovery or such it'll automatically delete the blob files it no longer needs.
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to my knowledge you don't want to touch the blob files as they may be linked to multiple Nandroids. Rather if you delete the backups from the /backup folder (the ones with the dates) the next time CWM boots to make a recovery or such it'll automatically delete the blob files it no longer needs.
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Under /clockworkmod there's only ever been the /backup folder to my knowledge... I assumed he would be able to figure that part out once he browsed to that location and saw /backup
Edit:I take that back. I hadn't done a backup with the latest cwm. But still he should be able top figure out to delete the /backup folder contents and not the blob
Just delete the backups you don't want from CWM.
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Do it from recovery.
Only way to properly delete the corresponding blobs.
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Do it from recovery.
Only way to properly delete the corresponding blobs.
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what version are you using? Every time I try that, it doesn't delete it.
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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Hello! I need help!
I flashed a rom yesterday and I backed up my rom before flashing. Today I was trying to restore my backup and the system did not find it. I can see it using Astro file manager under clockworkmod and backups. But on recovery it won't show. And the recovery shows three backups that I don't remember doing but two out of the three are not accesible. Please, if you can tell me how to make clockworkmod see my backup. I'd really appreciate it! Thanks!
Did you backup to the internal drive or external sd card. Try going to your backup and restore then click the restore from external sd card to see if it is possibly there.
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Did you backup to the internal drive or external sd card. Try going to your backup and restore then click the restore from external sd card to see if it is possibly there.
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I don't have an SD card. It was saved on my internal drive. I tried to but it says I can't because there is no Sd card.
Did you format your internal drive before you tried restoring the backup. Usually my cwm just populates the ones I have done or if I want to pull one of the ones on my sd card I can. I will try moving my backup and see if I can replicate the problem.
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Did you format your internal drive before you tried restoring the backup. Usually my cwm just populates the ones I have done or if I want to pull one of the ones on my sd card I can. I will try moving my backup and see if I can replicate the problem.
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no I didn't I'll try to move it to an sd card and see what happens
I moved my backup to another folder and cwm did not find it. I'm not sure if you possibly moved it from the clockwork folder or not. I hope you figure it out.
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If you are still having problems try going into rom manager app. Should have a manage and restore option. From there it should have a list of your backups and will let you restore from one of those.
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sergioosvaldo1 said:
Hello! I need help!
I flashed a rom yesterday and I backed up my rom before flashing. Today I was trying to restore my backup and the system did not find it. I can see it using Astro file manager under clockworkmod and backups. But on recovery it won't show. And the recovery shows three backups that I don't remember doing but two out of the three are not accesible. Please, if you can tell me how to make clockworkmod see my backup. I'd really appreciate it! Thanks!
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Another thing to try is to make sure your recovery is current and up to date. That same thing happened to me (with TWRP) and it turned out it was due to me flashing a 4.2 rom (which changes the file structure of your sd) and having an older recovery that didn't support it.
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Hello, I know this question has been asked before but it has been for other phone models and some years ago so the advice given may no longer be the best. Pretty much I have flashed many roms in the past, but I always erase the downloads when I am going to no longer use it. My vzw s3 has 12.05GB of total space available. I have only 1.3GB left to use. I don't know what is causing the space to be used up because my apps only take up 1.2gb, pics 1.2gb, downloads only 1gm and the rest only takes up about another 2 gigs. I only have one backup as well. So I should have atleast 4-5 GB of space free. Is there anyway I can just wipe all the files that are taking up space? Or any suggestions? I don't mind wiping everything off my phone as long as it doesn't ruin my root and brick my phone. Thanks in advanced
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Hello, I know this question has been asked before but it has been for other phone models and some years ago so the advice given may no longer be the best. Pretty much I have flashed many roms in the past, but I always erase the downloads when I am going to no longer use it. My vzw s3 has 12.05GB of total space available. I have only 1.3GB left to use. I don't know what is causing the space to be used up because my apps only take up 1.2gb, pics 1.2gb, downloads only 1gm and the rest only takes up about another 2 gigs. I only have one backup as well. So I should have atleast 4-5 GB of space free. Is there anyway I can just wipe all the files that are taking up space? Or any suggestions? I don't mind wiping everything off my phone as long as it doesn't ruin my root and brick my phone. Thanks in advanced
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Since you don't mind wiping everything format /sdcard in recovery. Just make sure to have a rom on the external sdcard if you plan on just starting everything over.
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Oh, what exactly does format SD card do?
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Oh, what exactly does format SD card do?
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It deletes everything from /sdcard which is your internal storage. I'm unsure if it wipes the rom as I never use it so I suggest you put one on the external sdcard just in case. You could even pull your external sdcard format sdcard and boot up. If it removes the rom, pop the external sdcard back on and flash that.
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Hey so it worked just great. The ROM is untouched although I did an external backup. I got all my 11gb back. The only thing I wasn't expecting was my pictures being deleted. I thought those would be saved
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Hey so it worked just great. The ROM is untouched although I did an external backup. I got all my 11gb back. The only thing I wasn't expecting was my pictures being deleted. I thought those would be saved
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Glad you got the storage space back. Not fun hearing about the photos being gone but formatting /sdcard wipes everything on internal (without discrimination) like I posted.
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Yeah, tomorrow I'm going to try reverting back to the backup to see if my pics are back then save them elsewhere and rewipe again.
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Yeah, tomorrow I'm going to try reverting back to the backup to see if my pics are back then save them elsewhere and rewipe again.
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Don't think it will. But one can certainly hope.
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Pictures won't be in that backup. But you should be using Google's backup options to prevent this sort of thing. Google will backup ask your photos, videos, contacts, apps, etc if you let it. Also set your camera app to save to external sd.
I have the same issue as you with regards to space, I wonder if there's a space sniffer type app for phones that will show you where all your space is being eaten up.
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If you've switched between 4.1.2 and 4.2+ ROMs you may have caused some accidental shuffling in how /sdcard is organized.
In Android 4.2 they changed the internal structure to where /sdcard data is actually located. If you use a file browser you may have noticed a mysterious folder at /sdcard/0 which is where 4.2+ stores everything.
It's important to know this so that /sdcard data can be moved back and forth depending on the Android version of the ROM you're using.
I would use es file explorer. It is awesome for browsing the folders on your phone as well as moving files to and from your internal storage. I also always use my external SD for pictures, music and videos I always go into es file explorer before I wipe internal storage to make sure I won't lose something important. Or you can use Google to back up. Google plus will backup photos as well as Drive. Although I've found the auto backup on Google plus to be easier and more convenient.
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