hello! I've been using titanium backup all this while, whenever I flash a new ROM, but I recently did a batch backup of all the apps+system apps with their data (total size around 1.5gb) and then after flashing the ROM I open titanium backup to restore it, and It recognizes none of them!
please note that,
I have all my backups in the backup location, there are no permission issues as I can create new folders while making backup, I tried clearing data, uninstalling, installing a different one...
PS: I tried making another backup of an app in the new ROM and when I try to restore the backups it shows only 1 backup found where as the folder has 1.5gb of older backups which are not being recognized?
Open the Preferences and search for the backup folder location. Also, don't restore system apps / data. Typically a bad idea.
doesn't work... it just shows 0 backups found...
I've had this happen once or twice before, I believe this is what I did:
Go to preferences, then backup folder location.
Click the line of text that talks about file system.
Select document provider.
Click the menu button and click show internal storage.
Navigate to the PARENT folder of your Titanium folder, not the Titanium folder itself. Select it...it will then say you have permission to view it and go back to the familair TiBU folder selection screen.
Then select your Titanium folder. Press back to reload then proceed as usual.
don't you try to root it again?? or did you try to check it again in your storage, if the file is missing?
The root access works just fine... And I have 3 files for each backup ( 2 compressed files and 1 text)
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Here is the problem. I kept a backup from my stock firmware on Titanium Backup (stored it on my pc and deleted it from my phone so i would have more space)and switched to CM7. I then had to get a new phone because the current one at the time had a defective battery and fried the system completely. So, i put my backup from my pc onto my new device and ran TB but restoring my apps was not an option there. any way to solve this??
What I have done in the past is copied all the files INSIDE the TITANIUM BACKUP folder on my PC, put them onto my externalsdcard into a folder/the same folder name "TitaniumBackup", put external sdcard back into phone and boot it up. Once it is up open Titanium Backup, hit menu button, preferences, Backup Folder Location, it should NORMALLY point to mint/sdcard/titaniumbackup, HIT the back button twice until your at mnt/ , then scroll down/pick your external sdcard (emmc if your on cm7), scroll down/choose TitaniumBackup folder, then HIT use the current folder, now hit the back button (it may ask if you want to move the backups to a new location, I don't think it really matters though). the titanium backup app will act like it is starting the app over again. next hit the menu button, choose BATCH, scroll down to RESTORE MISSING APPS WITH DATA, you can unchecked restore app data so it JUST RESTORES the app if you want to be safe, choose/unclick ANY apps you do not want to restore or only check the apps you want to restore. Then hit OK. If you have the paid version all the apps will restore without any further assistance, if you have the free version you will have to OKAY each and every single app just like you were restoring it from the market one by one. Hope this helps ya.
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Just go into titanium backup setting and change the Preferences -> Backup Location to wherever you put your folder from the PC onto phone
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thanx guys. i got it figured out i think.
when i click restore->app and media-> local->my backup file-> selected restore apps and photos (cant see the list of which apps and photos) and pressed ok,
got'' could not open the android market DB for links'' and then the restart message. Nothing restored =/
i could restore ''data'' but not app and media ?
what to do ?
Yep me too.. no idea whats wrong....
Just rename the backup file.... Try it...
found this on another forum
/sdcard/rerware/MyBackup/AllAppsBackups (apps)
/sdcard/rerware/MyBackup/AllBackups (data)
Under the AllAppsBackups folder, I see:
/AllAppsBackups/AppsMedia (new location)
/AllAppsBackups/LastBackupApps (old location)
As far as I can tell, the data backup is still under AllBackups. Apps backup got moved from LastBackupApps to AppsMedia.
So my guess is that before you formatted and factory wiped, you didn't have the latest MyBackup App, so it saved stuff to its old locations. You copied that file structure off your SDcard onto your PC. Then, when you installed a new ROM and copied back your SD data, you went to the market and grabbed the latest MyBackup, which is now reading from a different folder structure... It now can't find your backups because it's looking elsewhere. You can try to recreate the new folder structure by making the above folders and using those instead.
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problem for me is i can restore apps but not data!
after looking at the directories my data was with the app files, so i moved to where it shows in there and it finds it but it says "i can only restore what i have backed up from this device "
You guys can laugh at my misfortune, but I need your help. A customer needed some work done that required downgrading his OS. So before doing so I used titanium backup to back everything up...to the INTERNAL SD!
Yeah one star TiBu, two thumbs way down. Why the heck would you default to the internal storage rather than the EXTERNAL? I guess it is my fault for not checking the location of the backup but I also did not expect the internal storage to be erased when flashing via Clockworkmod and Odin. I also did some OTA updates during my troubleshooting, this particular issue was very stubborn. Somewhere in there the backups were entirely erased.
Anyway, I used Hexmob Recovery Pro to backup the deleted files, hoping to salvage the apps and other user data. Well I got over five thousand files and they're all named like this:
f6826096.xml
f6826112.sqlite
f3946400.png
f6841912.txt
etc
This would be very handy if they were just pictures and other documents, but they're supposed to be a backup compatible with Titanium Backup. I tried to go to settings > preferences > backup folder location > detect > whole device. It didn't find anything. I tried manually adding all the files into the backup location that is listed by default, and they did not show up. I tried to force close titanium backup to force it to check the folder again. Without Titanium Backup able to recognize the files, none of them are going to do me any good. So:
How is a titanium backup structured? Can I make these files conform to that format so some of the user data can go back on?
Would anyone (via PM/e-mail) like to look at some of these files to help me identify if they belong to a backup? Most are XML or TXT files, which look like property lists?
How long is this process going to take? I think the customer's data may not be important but I promised I would not erase anything.
I've been testing some custom ROMs for my Sero 7 Pro but have to go back to stock for various reasons. That's not a problem but I want to avoid having to manually install all the apps for the umpteenth time.
I tried a custom restore from Recovery of just the data partition but then the tablet couldn't boot, so that backup must have been made with the custom ROM installed and something is therefore incompatible with stock.
Nandroid Manager doesn't work for me, as it force closes whichever option I select under Restore Apps+Data, whichever backup I choose from the largest 1.46GB down to the 252MB one.
Yaffs Explorer won't work for me either, as it says my CWM tars are in the wrong format.
I've got a Titanium Backup of the apps but using the Batch Action "Restore missing apps with data" requires me to answer the install prompts for each app as if I was installing it normally and that's obviously a pain when there's a lot of apps to reinstall, as it can't be left unattended to get on with it.
So I was wondering if I could just open the data.ext4.tar in 7zip on my PC, extract the app, app-lib and data folders and then copy them to the tablet via USB and then move them into / with ES File Explorer (/ isn't visible from my PC so I can't copy them directly there)? I'm not sure if any of the other numerous folders might need to be copied also but app-asec and app-private are both empty in the tar and everything else doesn't seem to be app related, more like system files. I'm also confused as I thought a lot of app data went in /sdcard/Android but that folder is nowhere to be seen in the tar.
i dont find the option to only backup apks without including data? i only want my apks to be backed up without including any data
cheera
When you choose to restore with the batch option, then you can choose to restore app only. You also have an option to clear user data under the batch Manipulate option.
I need to backup apk only in batch actions...
Tried using the option "backup app external data"
Then chosed "enabled for apps within a chosen label"
Then I chosed a label
And it keeps backing up data for ALL apps
If you try to backup an application and then remove the .tar.gz file, it will not be detected again.
So, only way is gunzipping first, deleting files using tar, and then gzipping again.
Remember to keep the folder "data/data/./app.package.name", because it is created on application install.
If you delete it and then restore using titaniumbackup, your application will not work.
Good luck