I have used CWM 5.8.4.5 and 5.8.4.7 in both touch and regular variants, and I have not been able to once restore my nandroid backups successfully. It ALWAYS errors our with "Error while restoring /data!" I don't touch any of the backup files or folders. I have tried this on both ext and int sd cards.
latest touch CWM official is 5.8.1.8. use that one. i have never seen the ones you mention.
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I have used CWM 5.8.4.5 and 5.8.4.7 in both touch and regular variants, and I have not been able to once restore my nandroid backups successfully. It ALWAYS errors our with "Error while restoring /data!" I don't touch any of the backup files or folders. I have tried this on both ext and int sd cards.
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I used to have the exact same issue. I ended up buying Titanium Backup because of that. What did fix it for me was switching CWM for TWRP. TWRP backups work flawlessly every time. Although I don't think you can restore CWM backups through that. If you're going to try TWRP, try 2.1.1 before 2.2.1. The latter has some issues with mounting external and internal storages.
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Hello guys,
I have a question. Lately I have been running into problems with Making/Recovering Nandroid backup's.
Right now, I wanted to make an Nandroid backup of my current stuff so I can move to CM10 again. I enter recovery, start a backup, it fails while doing /data. So I try again, but this time to Internal Storage. It took a very long while, then it failed. I rebooted, it seemed I was "low on storage". I checked that failed Nandroid backup on my Internal SDcard, I saw it was over 6GB's
So yeah, weird stuff. I'm running the last 5.xxx version of normal Recovery (so not the touch one or the 6.xxx) one. If really needed I will enter recovery so I can give the exact version.
edit: v5.8.4.5
One known recovery problem can be if you are using a different recovery version to the one backed up with .
jje
Tried it again to external sd card, ended up with a failure /data. Off course the backup was 4.7GB's and my SDcard got full.
Why is my phone going rage mode and making gigantic nandroid backup's?
Flashed latest recovery from ROM Manager (6.0.1.0) and it seems fine now.
my s3 is unable to restore nandroid backup until restoring data proses.
it will give error restoring data thus stop the proses.
already tried backup in internal & external memory but still fails.
my cwm version is 5.5.0.4 cf-v1.5
need advice & help.
i dont have problem with my s2.
thanks.
What a coincidence. I was going to send similar post . Yesterday I experienced the same problem. I wanted to go back to ICS from JB but CWM failed to restore data. Fortunately I had titanium backup as well, so I could restore all my applications.
The error message was "Error while restoring /data!". I have recovery.log if someone wants to look at it.
Use the same CF Root version and CWM to restore that was used to backup sometimes helps .
jje
I used the same version for backup and restore.
Maybe you should try touch recover 6.0.1.2
It work fine for me
Can I restore my old backups with touch recover?
Try using advanced restore and reinstall the components separately
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Can I restore my old backups with touch recover?
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Yes backward compatibility.
Ok. Will try it in future. Already recovered all my data from titanium backup.
never had this problem myself, have you checked the size of the backups, if they are less than 700 meg the backup process may not have worked, was there enough space on your're SD card to do the backup in the first place?.
Try copying the backup to the other SD card, does it copy ok, if so try to restore from there. Seems to be there has to be a reason for this that you should try to get the bottom of.
My backup was around 3.5GB. There was over 9GB free space on sdcard and 5GB free on extsdcard. Don't think there was not enough space.
i have backup & restored in internal & external memory yet the restoration of data still failed.
in addition i have tried restoring nandroid by "advance restore from internal sdcard" step by step & still failed when restoring data.
noted that i have used the same version on cwm with my nandroid.
hope someone able to give me a solution for my problem.
i never have this problem with my S2.
Problem solved!
I have manage to successfully restored my nandroid backup by flashing cwm touch recovery 6.0.1.2 from this thread click here.
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Same problem as kakiboyer, except a bit funkier.
got the 64GB microSD card off amazon popped it in and it just just went. no formatting no nothing.
backed up my original stock image using cwm5.5 and saved it onto the external SD card.
then flashed supernexus build 5 which gave a problem with my external 64GB SD card when i turned it on,it said it was damaged and needed a reformat (not fat32 im guessing) either way the flash was fine, i just need to reclaim the stuff on my 64GB SD card.
I then tried restoring to my original image and then removing the data that way, but instead i got the /data error (hence why i'm here).
Same set up as kakiboyer by the way.
using cwm version 5.5.0.4 cf-v1.5
so when i updated to cmw touch 6.0 it now can't see the external sd card (only the internal one).
BUT when i flash back to 5.5 it can see the external SD as well as the original backups, all my music/movie files etc. on the external SD.
So since the OS can't see the card, touch 6.0 can't see it and i can't revert back to the original image; how can i get my stuff off this SD card?
Fixed it!
Slapped the sd card into my windows machine and ran "chkdsk F: /r" with F: been whatever the sd card is!
got everything back, it was extFAT so copied everything off, reformatted to fat32 and put everything back on.
Happy days!
Can TWRP recovery create a nandroid backup that's >2GB and restore it successfully ?
I created a nandroid backup with CWM on my gs3 and when I needed to restore it,it failed to restore /data.I searched around for the reason and found out that if one of the ''tars''(which in most cases is /data) is more than 2GB,CWM won't restore it properly.Luckily,I found out that titanium backup got an option to restore apps and data from a nandroid.So the question is:does TWRP recovery has the same problem ?
No. TWRP splits the /data backup into multiple parts and restores it perfectly. Right now it splits into parts of 1GB size each even though it can do 2GB parts (it's mentioned in the changelogs why), but the TWRP team is working on eliminating the 2GB limit entirely. So yeah, it is the better recovery.
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CWM 6.0.2.7 internal and when I try a backup it hangs creating the mds sum. Left it up to a half hour and it is repeatable. Still 7 GB on the SD card. Using ROM CM10 Pure AOSP 4.1.2 JB-Final.
I have an SD card recovery that is in the 5 series and was wondering if that would work. Will 6.0.2.7 restore a backup from a different recovery?
Thanks, for your help.
The CWM recovery backup just creates a backup folder on the SD card. In theory you can use any recovery program to restore your device if it be CWM, TWRP, or Titanium Backup.
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I have an SD card recovery that is in the 5 series and was wondering if that would work. Will 6.0.2.7 restore a backup from a different recovery?
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CWM switched its backup archiving format from tar to blob somewhere between its 5.x and 6.x versions, but I do not know if the 6.x versions supports the legacy tar format for backward compatibility purpose. TWRP uses yet a different archiving format.
To be prudent, you should keep a copy of the recovery program version together with its associated backup data sets.
One day i decided i had enough of cyanogenmod and decided stock samsung was the way to go. I did a full backup with the latest version of clockworkmod, the full backup weights 2.99gb. When i try to restore it using any version of clockwork it gets up to restoring data then says Error while restoring /data!
i can boot back to cyanogenmod however apps are "installed" but they all say that they are not
Please help because i really need this phone
Either the file is corrupt or your sd card card could be damaged. It would be easier to flash stock with Odin and start again.
and if you have to /will go further without old backups, switch to TWRP after having rooted
Strange because i copied it without any errors... oh well. :crying: