I have done full nandroid backup using CWM recovery. The backup folder was placed on external sd card. If my device gets bricked after installing Custom ROMS, Can i restore CWM backups using external sdcard or i have to always copy the backups to internal sdcard before restore?
TWRP can, so I would be surprised if CWM couldn't.
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Bhaskar1109 said:
I have done full nandroid backup using CWM recovery. The backup folder was placed on external sd card. If my device gets bricked after installing Custom ROMS, Can i restore CWM backups using external sdcard or i have to always copy the backups to internal sdcard before restore?
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Yeah u can restore ur rom with sd card... No need to move it in internal memory!
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Hi
I usually using different Roms and should do full wipe and lose my data !
Is there any app to make back up to external storage ???
Thanks
Backup with nandroid, copy it to your sd card? Works fine 4 me..
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There is default backup app that backups data to SD card.
alfa7d said:
Hi
I usually using different Roms and should do full wipe and lose my data !
Is there any app to make back up to external storage ???
Thanks
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Set the Titanium backup directory to /Removable/MicroSD/TitaniumBackup (selecting a directory is not user friendly, use back key to up one directory).
ARHD offers Super_Wide_Lite that does not delete /sdcard partition, it is not fun to backup 10GB of data.
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Hi guys,
If am doing backup from CWM recovery then which are the files that i need while doing a restore?
Where is default location of these files ?
Also if i full format my sd card and internal card after that i same these files to sd card from my computer then will i be able to restore and have everything that i had when i had done backup ?
ravee1010 said:
Hi guys,
If am doing backup from CWM recovery then which are the files that i need while doing a restore?
Where is default location of these files ?
Also if i full format my sd card and internal card after that i same these files to sd card from my computer then will i be able to restore and have everything that i had when i had done backup ?
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backup will be saved in SDcard/Clockworkmod/
you can copy this folder to your computer
then format SD and internal
then again copy this folder to SDcard and you can restore from CWM
Cwm backup and restore
This URL will give you a clear instruction on taking backup and restoring it through cwm recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2259065
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Thanks 2 both u guys , my questions is answered!
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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bbqsfire said:
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, when I select backup to external SD and I then select advance restore from external sd after the backup, it gives me some option such as restore, system, data, and even external SD. However, it doesn't provide the option of restoring internal SD. Why? When I made a Nandroid backup, isn't it backup everything?
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No, when you make a Nandroid backup, it backups two folders, /data and /system. /sdcard0 is not backed up when creating a Nandroid Backup. You would need to use another utility such as Titanium Backup.
Hello,
My old phone had a SD Card, Nexus 5 not. So my backup process doesn't work any more. I used to make a backup with CWM. I then mounted the SD Card in CWM so I could copy all my data and the CWM backup. If I wanted to install a new ROM I just deleted complete SD card and copy new ROM for installation on it...
Now I have installed TWR. In TWR I can't mount the internal storage to USB. So I have to boot to Android and then copy data from internal storage to my computer. But I can't copy all the data to my computer because it stops the copy process in order of a copy failure. I think I can't copy some data because they are used/opened by system or something like that.
How do you backup your whole phone?
You can use the Nexus Root Toolkit. You can do a Nandroid backup and much more. NRT will boot into recovery, make the backup and copy the backup to your PC, after booting normally.
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wim69 said:
You can use the Nexus Root Toolkit. You can do a Nandroid backup and much more. NRT will boot into recovery, make the backup and copy the backup to your PC, after booting normally.
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Great! I'll try that. Thanks a lot!
Myphoneexplorer can be usefully too, even when you are not rooted
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