I'm trying to restore a nandroid backup from my external SD card and have run into some problems. I'm using Philz Touch recovery; went to restore my backup and it said "No files found"" when I tapped it. So I created a new nandroid backup to see where the files might be located, and the new nandroid backup is located in the exact same place that the old one was (on the External SD card under ClockworkRecovery/backup). There's a Clockwork backup directory on my Galaxy s4's internal storage, but there are no backup files there.
Any ideas on how to restore?
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Okay so I just installed CM7 which worked fined and i was reading that i should partition my sd card. So I made a copy of my sd card on my computer and continued to partition my sd card 256/64. After the partition I just moved the file back to my sd card in recovery mode. I then rebooted which worked fine and syncd my google account. I installed simple2ext so i could move my cache to my sd card because i was unable to update rom manager and su or able to install any apps bigger than simple2ext. I installed titanium backup and noticed i had nothing to restore so I was going to go back to my original rom to back everything up again. I backed up cm7 then went to restore my original rom and all my previous roms I had backed up were gone.
Is there something I did worng? and am i able to get them back.
I did some searching and looked in my sd card from my computer and looked in clockwork folder and found my backup folder. I tired to move all of them back but said insufficient space and was only able to move one.
So now my question is did all my data from sd card not transfer over?
o noo that sucks man
if you made a rom backup, it would indeed be in the clockwork folder, as the progam that makes the backup is nandroid which is intergrated in the clockwork mod. Titanium backup is only for backing up loose apps and had nothing to do with rom backups.
If you still have the clockwork folder with the backups in them on your computer you should be fine. just transfer the one you want to use (they are named with dates and times) to the SD and go back into the recovery mode and use the restore option.
if you don't have enough space on your SD card, maybe you should make some available for the rom.
bl0m5t3r said:
if you made a rom backup, it would indeed be in the clockwork folder, as the progam that makes the backup is nandroid which is intergrated in the clockwork mod. Titanium backup is only for backing up loose apps and had nothing to do with rom backups.
If you still have the clockwork folder with the backups in them on your computer you should be fine. just transfer the one you want to use (they are named with dates and times) to the SD and go back into the recovery mode and use the restore option.
if you don't have enough space on your SD card, maybe you should make some available for the rom.
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Yup found them on the sd card on computer. But how come they did not transfer after I recopied the SD card?
Had the same thing happen to me when I was on my GNEX. I now enabled dropbox to keep backup copies as well.
Something similar happened to me when I tried a ROM with 4ex recovery in lieu of clockwork. when i tried to access my backup it told me something about invalid md5 sum and backup failed. like it didn't exist. If all is still on your PC perhaps you should reformat the card then re-partition using a different source, and re-try.
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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
Joe MANUEL
Thanks 2 both u guys , my questions is answered!
I recently unlocked, rooted, and installed CWM on my GS3. I then created a nandroid backup of my system, and flashed Cyanogenmod. I tried to flash the nandroid backup, but after clicking on "backup/restore > restore" (which should be the internal sd where I saved the nandroid) I get this:
"Couldn't open Directory. No files found."
I can see the nandroid backup in the clockworkmod / backups folder on my internal sd card from file manager as well as android file transfer. Yet CWM will not recognize it. Anyone have experience with a similar issue?
Thanks.
I made a titanium backup, copied the folder manually to the SD card, then flashed a ROM with wiped all of my internal memory. After starting the new ROM, I tried to make Titanium backup detect my copied folder, but to no luck. I tried overwriting it back to the internal memory folder, but still no luck.
Any way for me to solve this? Thank you
I had my Galaxy S7 crash on my recently (rebooted the phone and was told SystemUI wasn't responding, so the phone stayed at a black screen).
Shortly before the crash I did a Nandroid backup of the phone as I was thinking of doing an OS update. That Nandroid backup is stored on my SD card.
Anyways, I did a factory reset, and am now trying to restore all my data. I've installed Titanium Backup, and trying to use the 'Restore from Nandroid backup' feature. I've given TiB SD card access, but it still can't seem to see the TWRP folder on the SD Card. I'd move the backup to my internal memory, but there isn't enough free space. I can barely fit the Nandroid backup on the internal SD, but there will be no room for the restored data.
Does anyone have an idea of how I can get TiB to see this folder on the SD card, or otherwise restore the Nandroid data?
SuaveCanadian said:
I had my Galaxy S7 crash on my recently (rebooted the phone and was told SystemUI wasn't responding, so the phone stayed at a black screen).
Shortly before the crash I did a Nandroid backup of the phone as I was thinking of doing an OS update. That Nandroid backup is stored on my SD card.
Anyways, I did a factory reset, and am now trying to restore all my data. I've installed Titanium Backup, and trying to use the 'Restore from Nandroid backup' feature. I've given TiB SD card access, but it still can't seem to see the TWRP folder on the SD Card. I'd move the backup to my internal memory, but there isn't enough free space. I can barely fit the Nandroid backup on the internal SD, but there will be no room for the restored data.
Does anyone have an idea of how I can get TiB to see this folder on the SD card, or otherwise restore the Nandroid data?
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What exactly do you want to restore from the nandroid backup? All of it? Or just certain parts?
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