I have CWM 6.0.1.0 as my recovery and I have a good number of backups saved on my sdcard spanning a number of different roms (mostly cm10 official nightlies). I understand that the newer CWM backs up roms using a different method than before. When I look in my Clockworkmod directory on the sdcard, I see a BLOBS folder and a BACKUP folder. The latter contains the backups, but they are very small in size. So do I understand correctly that the bulk of the backup information is in the BLOBS folder?
Assuming that's true, how do we safely:
1) Delete individual backup? If I delete a backup from the BACKUP folder, how will it know what to delete from the BLOBS folder? Do we have to actually delete the backup from within recovery in order for it to delete the proper BLOBS info? Or can I delete an individual backup from the BACKUP folder from Root Explorer? If I do that, won't the BLOBS folder continue to grow in size with outdated information?
2) Back up the CWM backups to my PC? I assume I have to back up the entire BLOBS folder to my PC, right? And then I can just back up individual backups from the BACKUP folder, right? But I would need BOTH the individual backup and the entire BLOBS folder back on my phone to restore a backup, right? If so, then I revert back to question 1 and ask how to I pare down the BLOBS folder without messing up individual backups?
Thanks!
You can delete backups from Rom Manager or if using the newest version of cwm you can delete it from recovery. As far as backing it up. I just deleted all but the one(s) wanted and copy the cwm folder to my computer. Hope that helps.
ren274u said:
You can delete backups from Rom Manager or if using the newest version of cwm you can delete it from recovery. As far as backing it up. I just deleted all but the one(s) wanted and copy the cwm folder to my computer. Hope that helps.
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So we have to delete old backups using Rom Manger or from within Recovery? I delete some of them from Root Explorer, so does that mean the Blogs info will still retain old data. Or will it know to clear that space simply because the old backup files are missing?
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So we have to delete old backups using Rom Manger or from within Recovery? I delete some of them from Root Explorer, so does that mean the Blogs info will still retain old data. Or will it know to clear that space simply because the old backup files are missing?
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I'm not sure how the blog info works. I just assumed if you delete from cwm it knows whats the data incorporated with the specific backup and it deletes it with it.
Wow, I tried copying the Clockworkmod folder to my PC via USB and it took over an hour just to index and then it just stopped and failed. I imagine because there are so many individual files in the Blobs folder that it causes Windows indexing to crash. I deleted all the old backups I didn't need, did the free up space thing in CWM and it's still impossible to copy to my PC. I have 3 backups left (from different roms), so I supposed the Blobs folder is going to be pretty large.
So I can see how this backup method works out good on the phone itself because it makes backups easier and faster. But trying to back them up to PC is ridiculous. The old way where I could just copy over an individual backup was much easier.
Isn't there a better way? Someone suggested zipping the Blobs folder up on the device first and then copying to PC, but zipping the Blobs folder is taking forever as well...
I created a Nandroid backup in CWM 6.0.4.0. I can see the file while in CWM, but it is nowhere to be found in either Root Explorer or Windows. CWM says the files are in /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup, but the clockworkmod folder is empty when I browse it. Where are these nandroids actually saving?
I was using Galaxy Tab 2 (p3100) and now moving to my first Galaxy Note 3.
All my files that were encrypted via GalleryVault is locked because I don't copy the "Backup" files (from internal storade) that should be copied.
Can I restore the files? decrypted? How can?
I don't copy the backup foder because I was mistakenly assuming in FAQ that I should copy the backup folder .thinkyeah. In FAQ, it doesn't mentioning that the backup folder is placed in Internal Storage. Since I have find that there is already folder .thinkyeah, I don't do more exploration.
FAQ: http://www.thinkyeah.com/myfaq/index.php?action=artikel&cat=2&id=14&artlang=en
same problem here, anybody ?
[Q] (PLEASE HELP) Can't find "Backups" folder in "Clockworkmod" folder?
I can't find the folder named "Backups" inside of the larger folder named "Clockworkmod"...I recently went to Liquidsmooth 4.4.4 and the ROM is fine but I wanted to restore and can't backup.....
When I try to restore from recovery mode I get the "MD5 Mismatch" error, which apparently can be quickly fixed with access to the MD5sums file.. The problem is that my computer is not finding the "Backups" folder, and neither is my phone's file browser. I know it's there because when I go into recovery mode with Clockwork and look at the restorable backups there's a backup sitting there under Clockworkmod/Backups..... Help would be appreciated. Thanks!
Flashed a ROM and the ROM moved the all files in the root of my storage to a folder within a series of subfolders.
This is bad because my TWRP folder containing my backups was in the root of my storage.
But of course things can't just work how you'd expect, so my computer and phone refuse to copy the TWRP folder back to where it belongs.
My computer refuses to copy the files "data.ext4.win000"
There seems to be nothing I can do about this. My phone wont copy it and my computer won't either.
However, I am wondering if there is a way to make TWRP restore from a backup that is not where it belongs.
Whenever I go to restore, it doesn't give me an option to search elsewhere for my backups. Yet for some reason I am allowed to install a .zip from wherever I want.
Is there some sort of terminal command I can do within TWRP to make this work? Thank you.