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I have synched my Titanium Backup to my Dropbox account, and have the files on my desktop. There were older files in there, however, from previous backups. My question is should I only zip up the files dated from the most recent backup (1/1/11), or should I zip all the files and move them to the card? My instincts say use just yesterday's, as it was a full backup, but there's a niggle in the back of my mind - any insight would be appreciated!
I have a real headache going on here...
I have a backup in Dropbox made with Ti Backup dated Feb 13, which I'm trying desperately to restore after my Samsung Epic had to be reflashed. But no matter what I do, a backup from Jan 17 keeps showing on the restore list in Ti.
I deleted the Ti folder on my SD card and replaced it with the downloaded folder from Dropbox, but Jan 17 still comes up in the program. I then tried deleting the folder in the SD card, then ran a "Sync with Dropbox." Same result. I even uninstalled and reinstalled Ti but that Jan 17 backup keeps coming up.
I won't be doing any backups until I get this restoration done. Can anyone suggest what to do here?
Thanks!
toonvox said:
I have a real headache going on here...
I have a backup in Dropbox made with Ti Backup dated Feb 13, which I'm trying desperately to restore after my Samsung Epic had to be reflashed. But no matter what I do, a backup from Jan 17 keeps showing on the restore list in Ti.
I deleted the Ti folder on my SD card and replaced it with the downloaded folder from Dropbox, but Jan 17 still comes up in the program. I then tried deleting the folder in the SD card, then ran a "Sync with Dropbox." Same result. I even uninstalled and reinstalled Ti but that Jan 17 backup keeps coming up.
I won't be doing any backups until I get this restoration done. Can anyone suggest what to do here?
Thanks!
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There's another place on the main memory that TB can store a backup, have you gone all through your file structure and killed all other possibilities? I had to do that myself once, it wasn't fun - also, make sure in TB preferences you're pointing to the correct directory in Preferences/Backup Folder Name.
reinbeau said:
There's another place on the main memory that TB can store a backup, have you gone all through your file structure and killed all other possibilities? I had to do that myself once, it wasn't fun - also, make sure in TB preferences you're pointing to the correct directory in Preferences/Backup Folder Name.
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Thanks for the response!
a) How do I find out what the directory is in Preferences/Backup Folder Name? It just shows a folder name...not a place to put it.
b) If there's something in the phone memory, it's gone since I wiped the phone clean when I re-flashed it.
toonvox said:
Thanks for the response!
a) How do I find out what the directory is in Preferences/Backup Folder Name? It just shows a folder name...not a place to put it.
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You have to go and look st it. Start up TB, hit the menu button, then preferences, and then choose backup folder. Tell me what that says and we'll go from there.
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A pop-up window which simply says:
Backup folder name:
TitaniumBackup
OK Cancel
toonvox said:
A pop-up window which simply says:
Backup folder name:
TitaniumBackup
OK Cancel
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Ok, so what ROM version are you on? Are you on 2.2 or 2.2.1? If you are, you need to change that path to read external_sd/TitaniumBackup. Put the backup in there, and TB should pick it up from there. If you're on 2.1 someone else is going to have to give you the proper path, I've fogotten what it is.
It's 2.2.1. I'll make that change to prevent future problems. Thanks for the info! Really appreciated!
toonvox said:
It's 2.2.1. I'll make that change to prevent future problems. Thanks for the info! Really appreciated!
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There's a button for that
Seriously, I hope your restore goes well.
Hoping to get some help... My Sd card fried on me today. Erased everything. Good thing I backed up everything on my Laptop... Re-downloaded titanium backup on my phone and am trying to get the TB files from my laptop back on to the app on my phone. I put the TB file i have saved into the TB folder on my SD card but when I open the app it still shows nothing saved... Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?
Samsung Fascinate MIUI 1.8.19
Android OS 2.3.5 GB
EDit: Nevermind, got it!
So as far as I can see, first I pay for the Dropbox restore ability (which indeed saved me though) and then I can't even automatically restore from Dropbox, but only manually copy the files to SD and then restore? Disappointing.
I tried this now (after copying the files into the "TitaniumBackup" folder), but it doesn't work, it simply doesn't draw the files. I rebooted, to no result.
What do I do wrong?
PS: This is on CM9 RC0.
knowledgeworker said:
So as far as I can see, first I pay for the Dropbox restore ability (which indeed saved me though) and then I can't even automatically restore from Dropbox, but only manually copy the files to SD and then restore? Disappointing.
I tried this now (after copying the files into the "TitaniumBackup" folder), but it doesn't work, it simply doesn't draw the files. I rebooted, to no result.
What do I do wrong?
PS: This is on CM9 RC0.
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Not true. I have restored via Dropbox multiple times on multiple devices. Follow the below steps:
1.) On a recently wiped device, Setup Dropbox via Titanium Backup. *Make sure you are pointing to the correct folder on your Dropbox account.*
2.) Click on "Schedules"
3.) Click "Run" on the Sync to Dropbox option.
4.) If all the above was done correctly you should see files from Dropbox being downloaded to your device. This may take a while depending on how many applications you have.
5.) Once the download completes, Figure out where the files were restored. By default they should be in the TitaniumBackup folder on the root of your SD card.
6.) Go into Preferences in Titanium once the download from Dropbox is complete.
7.) Scroll down to "Backup folder location"
8.) Click on "DETECT"
9.) Select "SD Card". It should show you all directories with Titanium backup files.
10.) Select the folder that has the files you downloaded from Dropbox.
11.) Select "Use the current folder"
12.) Exit Titanium and go back in. You should now see all your applications from Dropbox when you select "Restore missing apps with data"
13.) Restore and enjoy.
Thank you Mike02z it help me
Mike02z said:
Not true. I have restored via Dropbox multiple times on multiple devices. Follow the below steps:
1.) On a recently wiped device, Setup Dropbox via Titanium Backup. *Make sure you are pointing to the correct folder on your Dropbox account.*
2.) Click on "Schedules"
3.) Click "Run" on the Sync to Dropbox option.
4.) If all the above was done correctly you should see files from Dropbox being downloaded to your device. This may take a while depending on how many applications you have.
5.) Once the download completes, Figure out where the files were restored. By default they should be in the TitaniumBackup folder on the root of your SD card.
6.) Go into Preferences in Titanium once the download from Dropbox is complete.
7.) Scroll down to "Backup folder location"
8.) Click on "DETECT"
9.) Select "SD Card". It should show you all directories with Titanium backup files.
10.) Select the folder that has the files you downloaded from Dropbox.
11.) Select "Use the current folder"
12.) Exit Titanium and go back in. You should now see all your applications from Dropbox when you select "Restore missing apps with data"
13.) Restore and enjoy.
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I just had trouble with this and figured out the key is to delete your titaniumbackup folder on your sd card and then go and restore and wala it downloads from your dropbox folder.
Has anyone been able to get Titanium backup to backup to the removable storage? It wont let me navigate to my ext sd and will only backup to the on device storage! Can copy and paste to ext whenever I want to clean install a rom but kind of a pain!
mike1984jr said:
Has anyone been able to get Titanium backup to backup to the removable storage? It wont let me navigate to my ext sd and will only backup to the on device storage! Can copy and paste to ext whenever I want to clean install a rom but kind of a pain!
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First create a new folder on your sd card then copy all the backups to your new folder on the sd card.
1. Open Tibu, tab on the 3 stacked little boxes(most top right of the screen),
2. Select "preferences" from the drop down, scroll down to "backup folder location", tab to open,
3. Then tab on "detect" button, then tab on "whole device" button and it will find your new folder location,
4. Then hit the back button to bring you back to previous screen, your new path displayed and you tab on "use the current folder". you done.
If you've never made a backup, then you need to do the following:
In TiBu, Settings --> Preferences --> Backup folder location. Use the back key to navigate to /, then go to /Removable/MicroSD and then you can create a folder in there and use it as your backup location.
Took me a bit of a while to find the location.
johnlgalt said:
If you've never made a backup, then you need to do the following:
In TiBu, Settings --> Preferences --> Backup folder location. Use the back key to navigate to /, then go to /Removable/MicroSD and then you can create a folder in there and use it as your backup location.
Took me a bit of a while to find the location.
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+1
This is how I got mine working.
johnlgalt said:
If you've never made a backup, then you need to do the following:
In TiBu, Settings --> Preferences --> Backup folder location. Use the back key to navigate to /, then go to /Removable/MicroSD and then you can create a folder in there and use it as your backup location.
Took me a bit of a while to find the location.
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this solved my Tibu to ext sd card problem .. also off topic appreciate all your work for Bionic.... John Galt.. . rooted ics .232
You're welcome, and thanks in return for the props. I do what I can
Sorry to hijack this thread but I have a weird issue with Titanium Backup - have the paid version...
I want to set my preferred backup location to be on the micro SD but when I navigate to it Titanium backup says it is not writable and that the folder is empty.
I can write files toitin other apps and it is most definitely not empty, I have the install files for the ROM I'm using stored on it.
The ROM is CROMi-Xenogenesis 4.7.0- 10.16.1.14.8/WW DEODEX
Kernel is 3.1.10-hundsbuah-v3.4.5-oc-gaa752e8-dirty
Any ideas?
dang
berndblb said:
dang
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I guess that means you're stumped on that one then
fatboyinlycra said:
I guess that means you're stumped on that one then
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No, I posted in the wrong thread
How's the card formatted?
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berndblb said:
No, I posted in the wrong thread
How's the card formatted?
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FAT32.
It's a 64Gig SANDisk but it also happens on a 4gig and a 1 gig card, both of which are made by Kingston. Oddly enough every other app that writes data can write to these cards. It's only Titanium (paid version too) that seems to think the card is not writeable
Just upgraded to Cromi 5.4, still using Hunds F2FS kernel, but the issue still remains - cannot configure Titanium Backup to write to any Micro SD.
Anyone got any ideas?
ES File Explorer, the simple file explorer and other apps can all write to this card but not Titanium
fatboyinlycra said:
Just upgraded to Cromi 5.4, still using Hunds F2FS kernel, but the issue still remains - cannot configure Titanium Backup to write to any Micro SD.
Anyone got any ideas?
ES File Explorer, the simple file explorer and other apps can all write to this card but not Titanium
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I have exact setup as your and tibu is working fine for me.
Everytime I make a backup in CWM it disappears. I back up and then try new rom and when I got Quickboot loaded again, I go look and restore says no files found. Not even when I look with root explorer they are gone...please help!! TIA!!
moonsbabe said:
Everytime I make a backup in CWM it disappears. I back up and then try new rom and when I got Quickboot loaded again, I go look and restore says no files found. Not even when I look with root explorer they are gone...please help!! TIA!!
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Check in /mnt/sdcard/0 for your CWM folder.
mentose457 said:
Check in /mnt/sdcard/0 for your CWM folder.
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And how do I find them in CWM? When I go into recovery it says no files found. Would I be better off flashing TWRP? And by the way they are there!!!
moonsbabe said:
And how do I find them in CWM? When I go into recovery it says no files found. Would I be better off flashing TWRP? And by the way they are there!!!
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In Root Explorer (or whatever root explorer you use) you can simply copy the CWM folder from /mnt/sdcard/0 to mnt/sdcard. After moving all the data you wish to keep from the 0 folder to the sdcard folder you could delete the 0 folder.
what is /0? I found the files but don't know what this means? I am still such a noob after all these years!
moonsbabe said:
what is /0? I found the files but don't know what this means? I am still such a noob after all these years!
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That is the 0 folder in your sdcard folder. It is created when you flash a 4.2 ROM.
mentose457 said:
That is the 0 folder in your sdcard folder. It is created when you flash a 4.2 ROM.
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Sorry I go to bed early and go to work early. I still don't find a folder with /0. I can go into mnt/sdcard and clockwork is in there. But doesn't show at all in recovery. Am about to give up! Driving me crazy~~
Still not showing restore files in recovery. I can do a backup and can see it as a restore but after a while (less than a day) it is gone. So tired of this. Still wondering if TWRP would be better?????????
moonsbabe said:
Still not showing restore files in recovery. I can do a backup and can see it as a restore but after a while (less than a day) it is gone. So tired of this. Still wondering if TWRP would be better?????????
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Have you tried the "restore from SD card option in CWM to see if your backups are there?
Harley_Rider said:
Have you tried the "restore from SD card option in CWM to see if your backups are there?
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Nothing there. Tells me 'no files found'. I would love to restore to the last one cuz my battery sucks right now. What about CWM from the market? Could downloading that help???? Thinking out loud here!!!
Ok I did a backup to the external sd card and found it. Then went into root manager and copied one of the backups that I couldn't access and moved it into the new backup folder on the external sd card. Renamed it to just the date like the new one....in other words took the word 'copy' out of the name. And I got to restore to my previous back up!!!!!! Yes Yes Yes!!!! Thanks for ya'll's help!! I guess I had to get mad to figure it out with help!!! Thanks again!!!!
Now flash twrp and see if you have the same problems.
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I think I will leave it the way it is for right now. And I found the /0 when I had phone connected to puter. I was getting rid of roms on the sd that I didn't like and was searching around on the internal sd and found it. Thank you so very much for your help! I will probably flash twrp next weekend. I really need my phone for work! So I only try to brick it on the weekends!
A couple of days ago, I installed android 4.2.2 liquidsmooth on my galaxy s3 i9300. Before installing this custom ROM, I took a backup into external SD card. I see the folder to which I had taken a backup and files like boot.img, recovery.img are there in this folder. Now I want to restore to my old state but when I go to recovery mode and select backup and restore > restore, it says no such files directory found. It is unable to recognize the backed up files. How do I go about restoring?
regex_vid said:
A couple of days ago, I installed android 4.2.2 liquidsmooth on my galaxy s3 i9300. Before installing this custom ROM, I took a backup into external SD card. I see the folder to which I had taken a backup and files like boot.img, recovery.img are there in this folder. Now I want to restore to my old state but when I go to recovery mode and select backup and restore > restore, it says no such files directory found. It is unable to recognize the backed up files. How do I go about restoring?
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verify that its in the same folder where the backup was kept and u didn't changed anything.if u did undo it!
prantoroy said:
verify that its in the same folder where the backup was kept and u didn't changed anything.if u did undo it!
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When I took a backup, it was stored in internal storage under /clockworkmod directory. I copied that folder to external SD. I'm unable to restore from external SD card and also from internal storage. If I select backup and restore > restore, it says no such files found. Am I missing something?
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When I took a backup, it was stored in internal storage under /clockworkmod directory. I copied that folder to external SD. I'm unable to restore from external SD card and also from internal storage. If I select backup and restore > restore, it says no such files found. Am I missing something?
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puted it in under /clockworkmod/backup
???
prantoroy said:
puted it in under /clockworkmod/backup
???
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Yes. By default it was copied to that location.
regex_vid said:
Yes. By default it was copied to that location.
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last question
are u using cwm?
anythinh hentypd
prantoroy said:
last question
are u using cwm?
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Yes
regex_vid said:
Yes
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hopeless!
prantoroy said:
hopeless!
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Why? what happened?
regex_vid said:
Why? what happened?
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it mostly happens if the file is missing or renamed or even hidden.
but here all is ok.
so I can't assist you further!
SORRY.
i'm not able to find my cwm backup file to transfer it to my pc.please some one tell me where is the location for cwm backup.tnx
ali.sbi said:
i'm not able to find my cwm backup file to transfer it to my pc.please some one tell me where is the location for cwm backup.tnx
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/data/media/clockworkmod
Learn to use the search.
There is a folder straight away in your SD card Named clockworkmod
ali.sbi said:
i'm not able to find my cwm backup file to transfer it to my pc.please some one tell me where is the location for cwm backup.tnx
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There is a folder straight away in your SD card Named clockworkmod
deej_roamer said:
There is a folder straight away in your SD card Named clockworkmod
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yeah i know but there is not any back up file in that.only 28 byts.
Then you are screwed
ali.sbi said:
yeah i know but there is not any back up file in that.only 28 byts.
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Try installing disk analyzer and try to locate a folder which can be in scales of a rom size, if you can find it great, otherwise something went wrong during backup
If you can take another backup then great otherwise its something you can't do anything about.
deej_roamer said:
Try installing disk analyzer and try to locate a folder which can be in scales of a rom size, if you can find it great, otherwise something went wrong during backup
If you can take another backup then great otherwise its something you can't do anything about.
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i can access my backup in cmw i can even delete it or take a new back up and restore it. the thing is when i connect the phone i can't find the back up in internal memory. and surf it with ES file manager too but nothing really found.
Does Access mean restore as well?
ali.sbi said:
i can access my backup in cmw i can even delete it or take a new back up and restore it. the thing is when i connect the phone i can't find the back up in internal memory. and surf it with ES file manager too but nothing really found.
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Can you restore the backup as well?
And what you are saying is that there is content in clockworkmod folder but of negligible size? Can you post a screenshots of clockworkmod folder?
Trust me use disk analyzer it can find some unknown things
check #2
there i found my backup
(be careful: i tried to flash a custom (so also formatted system+data) and when i wanted to return to my backup i discovered it was erased )
dreezz said:
check #2
there i found my backup
(be careful: i tried to flash a custom (so also formatted system+data) and when i wanted to return to my backup i discovered it was erased )
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yeah that right i have same issue too. that's why now i want to find my back up to transfer it into my pc.
deej_roamer said:
Can you restore the backup as well?
And what you are saying is that there is content in clockworkmod folder but of negligible size? Can you post a screenshots of clockworkmod folder?
Trust me use disk analyzer it can find some unknown things
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yeah sure i can restore it and it's fine.ok i will try this dist analyzer thing ASAP and get u back.
Device/data/media/clockworkmod
Edit: you can also make nandroid backups directly to your pen drive via a otg cable and avoid this confusion in future...
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ali.sbi said:
yeah sure i can restore it and it's fine.ok i will try this dist analyzer thing ASAP and get u back.
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Use adb to pull it to PC.
adb pull /data/media/clockworkmod