Hey there
Would like to create a backup of my rom. but i don't have a sdcard. In CWM is an option to backup to my internal storage and that's what i also did. Sadly it backed up totally everything. It also backed up my music and even the stock nandroid. after a couple minutes CWM gave me an error because i run out of free storage.
Does anybody has a solution for my problem? Is there a way to backup only certain stuff? Obviously i don't want to backup my old backup. And i also don't care about my music.
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My nandroid backup is only 18 mb, no particular option selected, and it's stored in the internal sd.
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Only 18 MB? that seems very small to me. Only the room got around 150 MB :/
The backup of my stock rom is around 2.2 Gb
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Well, I was wrong
In the clockwork folder there are two folders: one is named backup, and every backup is about 18 mb. The other folder is named blobs and it's 3,36 gb
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Hmm how many times have you done a backup? If I'm right and CWM always backups your data (like music, old bakups,...) Your next backup gets huge.
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I don't know exactly, I always thought that Cwm backups only the system and not the data stored in the internal sd.
I think I'm going to delete the whole folder and backup the system from scratch.
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Until now i thought the same. I also had a galaxy nexus without an SD card but i never had any problems. But i think it had two partitions.
On my DHD i don't have any music or backups on my internal storage. That might be the reason why it works properly.
Could you let me know when you did another backup? I'm wondering if you got the same problems. Or if anyone else got the problem.
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Has anyone successfully tried backing up their device and restoring with CWM on the tab 2 7?
When I backup I get an error in the data partition. I haven't tried restoring because I can't get an error free backup.
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Yes
I've used CWM to backup/restore my P3113.
Make sure you've got an external SD card in the slot, and that the SD card is large enough (anything over 1Gb is fine).
Yes it worked fine for me. Also worked fine using twrp recovery.
I used cwm to restore after a bad flash, no problem, an external .sd card is a must because when you b/u it is stored on the external sd card.
Pp.
Transmitted from another galaxy with an Infected P-5113.
I have successfully backed up and restored stock rom and custom rom with CWM and TWRP
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Maybe it's my sdcard....I only had 2 gb left. I'll try again with an empty card.
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That could very well be it. My backups clocked in around 2gb (and I was doing this on a stock tablet without anything installed).
Did you resolve this one? I have the exact same issue, data partition error when backing up, and I have tried on as large as a 16 gb card. I don't know what to do.
Have you gone to the advanced item and read the error log? On mine it was that I had so many videos on the internal storage and the tar file was to big. What does the log day?
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How do you delete nandroid backups you no longer want?
Thanks
Its saved onto the sd card. Find the folder of the backup and delete it.
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Thanks.... Even though I currently run 4Ext I previously had Clockworks Mod, and found the nandroid backups there.
There's really no other place for a file that large to be, unless you're using a SGS2 with an internal SD card. But its got to be some file, hunt around and I'm sure you'll find it
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Hey everyone. I have maybe five or six back ups on my external sd and I tried deleting them through cwm, it doesn't delete the unnecessary blobs I have. My backups take over 15-20gigs.
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After you deleted the backups, did you select the option in recovery to "Free up space" on the internal or external sd card?
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No I didn't see that. Will that delete just the blobs?
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No I didn't see that. Will that delete just the blobs?
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It'll delete the blobs that are not needed
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It deletes the excess blob files associated with the backups that you deleted. That's why they are separate options: delete backups and free up space. If you deleted backups saved on the internal, free up space on the internal via CWM. Same goes for the external sd card. It won't be a night and day difference unless you deleted say 4 backups of the 6 you previously had.
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If I'm running out of space on the internal SD card, can I just cut/paste the backup folder to my external SD card or does that mess up the backup/blobs?
Weird. It didn't free up space on my external sd
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If I'm running out of space on the internal SD card, can I just cut/paste the backup folder to my external SD card or does that mess up the backup/blobs?
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You would need to take the entire clock work mod folder.
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If I'm running out of space on the internal SD card, can I just cut/paste the backup folder to my external SD card or does that mess up the backup/blobs?
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You need to cut/paste the entire CWM folder which contains both the actual backup folder AND blobs folder. CWM backups are a two part deal. You're fine if you do this, I copy/paste one entire backup to my computer.maybe once a month. I only keep one backup on my phone and an older one on a computer.
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Weird. It didn't free up space on my external sd
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How many backups do you have on your external sd card?
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Five but in total I had ten and deleted just the back ups on my external sd
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Five but in total I had ten and deleted just the back ups on my external sd
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Hmm, 5 backups at 2 GB apiece should take up about 12-14 gb now. How large is the backup folder and how large is the blobs folder? You may have to delete more to delete more backups and free up space.
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The thing about the blobs are they are the shared data between your backups so if you deleted 5 backups but they were the same ROM just different days. It will only delete the blobs that were that ROM. So if your 5 now a're all different you really still have 5 full backups that still take around 10 gb or so.
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Sounds about right then. I have 6 backups and blobs take up about 12gigs.thanks guys!
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hey all
so i updated to cleanrom 6 and i thought i backed my apps up correctly with titanium backup. I had the files back up to my ext SD card they are there but when i go to restore, nothing is there and nothing restores.
did i screw up?
Does tb recognize the correct folder for the backup? Maybe you need to change where it is looking.
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nvm, just copied everything to another location and its works
I always have to tell it to change the location in preferences. That way I don't have to worry about moving stuff.
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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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