Hey Users,
I recently reinstalled Windows 11, and before that, I did a full image backup using Macrium Reflect of my drives (C and D, and I want to copy only certain files to my C drive, I started with some random files, and then wanted to copy the User folder, but I want to explain, that I can't just restore the entire backup because:
1. The system that I installed is Windows 11 22H2 and the system in in the backup is a different version of Windows 11.
2. The system in the backup is partially corrupted (but just the system files which I don't want to copy)
I tried copying different folder in the folder, but some files were not copied for unknown reasons, and I can't get them to copy! Also there where some errors like "This file can not be accessed by the system"!
I even tried using RoboCopy and a lot of files were skipped!
Please tell me how do I copy them!!
Please help!
Edit: I mounted the image as a drive in order to try to copy.
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Hi guys,
I'm at my wit's end with this one.
I have a 1.2GB data.img file created with Clockworkmod Recovery backup. I believe it was one of the older versions, in the 3.x.x.x range. When this was created I had plenty of space available on the SD and the MD5 was created successfully.
I have had no luck restoring this with any version of CWM. Restoring simply results in a system that won't boot; I am presented with either a black screen or a boot-loop. I have since learned that this is because my backup has too many files. Apparently CWM is hard-coded to restore a maximum of 10,000 files and will not restore anything past that point. I found a thread where someone had edited the source code to increase this limit to 50,000, compiled and flashed it, then successfully restored their backup. Aside from the initial editing, I would not know where to start to do this for my phone (SGS2)
Furthermore, I cannot extract the contents with unyaffs.exe for Windows. When I try to do this, it extracts a small portion of files (around 170MB), then exits with the following report :
Code:
read image file
: Bad file descriptor
read image file
: Bad file descriptor
I have since learnt that this is due to NTFS limitations with the length of pathnames. 'No problem' I think, and decide to install Ubuntu 11.10 so that I can use the linux version of unyaffs to extract the full thing without these limitations.
After a bit of messing around, I successfully compile the unyaffs source (I'm no expert in these matters). I then attempt to extract data.img and after a short while processing I get another error! :
Code:
Segmentation fault
Out of interest, I checked how much data had been extracted and got 9,544 items, totalling 204.2 MB. So I'm roughly 1 GB down.
Please help, you might not believe the hours I've spent to get to this stage and I still can't get all of my data back. I need my contacts (Google didn't back them up apparently), messages, app data and anything else I can get my hands on. If there's a better utility I can use for extracting, or perhaps a modified version of CWM I can flash onto my SGS2 so that I can restore the backup properly, I'm all ears.
Look forward to any responses and thanks in advance.
Just to update, I have now tried ext2explore on Windows 7, as well as yaffs2 explorer on Android. Both will open the .img file but display a blank window.
I downloaded the Android 4.4.2 source code that turned out to be about 14GB with more than 4,00,000 files.
I want to back up the folder in some .tar or zip or similar archive so that I can start fresh if something goes wrong in the working copy. I tried making a .tar.gz archive but it gave file permission errors during extracting and won't extract anymore.
So, how do I go about this ??
pauldmps said:
I downloaded the Android 4.4.2 source code that turned out to be about 14GB with more than 4,00,000 files.
I want to back up the folder in some .tar or zip or similar archive so that I can start fresh if something goes wrong in the working copy. I tried making a .tar.gz archive but it gave file permission errors during extracting and won't extract anymore.
So, how do I go about this ??
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This is what I did in my starting days
I copied all the folders from the source directory to another HDD which was just 80gb... I kept it permanently as my backup HDD...
But while copying don't copy everything at once... Copy in pieces... The 'external, framework n repo' folders are huge... So copy one by one... Or It'll take forever to copy....
But actually backups aren't required... You can always reset any changes you make to any file..!
But what's wrong with archiving ? I get multiple errors of "Cannot create symbolic link".
And how can reset the changes of the entire source code ??
hey guys,
I have made a nandroid backup of my nexus 7 (2012) and I need to get access to contents of the data partition without actually applying the nandroid backup to the device. I found this "unyaffs" tool, but it requires .img files if I understood it correctly. However, in my nandroid backup directory, I have a couple of files that end in ".win" or ".win000" etc (along with corresponding md5-files)...these must be image files of some sort I guess, but Windows describes them as "Adobe CMS Extensions" for some reason.
So...anyone knows how I can access this data? Any help appreciated!
cheers
brokaaa
I'm looking for a way to clone a Rooted android box to other android boxes. I want to clone my Tv launcher and apps plus settings.. I have tried a few programs Titanium backup but it seemed to back it up and restore fine but fails to recovery the settings for each app. If there is a faster way of doing this please let me know. The boxes are all different, but have the same processors s905x amlogic. Is there a way to make a IMG then use the usb burning tool to write to each box?
I Used Filezilla to grab files but it also fails to load all the files from the entire box?
Use twrp to create a image then flash that image to the other
I'd agree with Bcoates84, I've been testing out the process of cloning some Samsung tablets by simply restoring TWRP backups and so far everything's worked out pretty well.
It would be a good idea to backup the target ones just in case before trying it since you mentioned they are different boxes.
If you look up TWRP for your specific model(s) there should be some good information to get you heading in the right direction.
So i have done my backup on the box i want to clone, ill call it A-box. I got a Folder called TWRP/Backups With a few files
Boot.emmc.win
data.ext4.win000
data.ext4.win001
data.info
recovery.log
system.ext4.win
system.info
I plugged the stick into the box i want to clone, ill call it b-box went to restore this time and it fails to see the backup?
So I copied the TWRP folder with it's contents this time to my desktop and deleted the TWRP folder from the USB stick. Decided to do a Backup on b-box even know i didn't need the backup just wanted the folder structure to compare the two which i then got.
Boot.emmc.win
data.ext4.win
data.info
recovery.log
system.ext4.win
system.info
So I removed all the FILES from the usb only leaving the folder structure TWRP/BACKUP/SERIALNUMBERS I'm guessing? Also the p212-userdebug_6.0.1 folder. Then copied my files from A-box into the file structure and went to do a restore and it sees the image! Restore went smooth, went to reboot and it's stuck on android splash screen for 30mins now so guessing it's bricked. I can flash stock img back thats not a issue. Just trying to figure out how to clone this damn thing lol.
Is there anyway to simply make a Img so i can flash it via the amlogic usb burning tool. I saw this guide https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2746044 which i can extract the system.ext4 seeing all the system files, fast_preinstall, addon.d, app, bin, fonts, usr ect... But i don't see boot.emmc.win anywhere? I'm assuming this methods for phones only?
Very simply, how do I browse and extract the contents of a TWRP Nandroid backup on my Windows PC?
I am trying to browse a TWRP backup but I have a feeling I need to do a bit more fussing around. The backup is split into data.ext4.win000 through data.ext4.win007 and each of the parts has an accompanying .md5 with the same naming structure (ie. data.ext4.win000 and data.ext4.win000.md5.) There's also a data.info file as well.
The system backup is the exact same as described above for the data, except it's only 2 parts (system.ext4.win000 and system.ext4.win001, with the accompanying md5 files and the info file.)
Can someone provide a bit of guidance? I'm using a Windows 7 Home Premium machine.
kwest12 said:
Very simply, how do I browse and extract the contents of a TWRP Nandroid backup on my Windows PC?
I am trying to browse a TWRP backup but I have a feeling I need to do a bit more fussing around. The backup is split into data.ext4.win000 through data.ext4.win007 and each of the parts has an accompanying .md5 with the same naming structure (ie. data.ext4.win000 and data.ext4.win000.md5.) There's also a data.info file as well.
The system backup is the exact same as described above for the data, except it's only 2 parts (system.ext4.win000 and system.ext4.win001, with the accompanying md5 files and the info file.)
Can someone provide a bit of guidance? I'm using a Windows 7 Home Premium machine.
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Simply rename the file to data.ext4.tar and use winrar to extract it.
I'm revamping this thread because I'm...desperate!
I have a nandroid backup (TWRP 2.8.7.0) and I would like to browse it on my PC. I'm focusing on files with structure data.ext4.win000x (where x goes from 0 to 2).
I'm able to open with 7-zip (should be equivalent to winrar) every individual file but size is faulty: every file is nearly 1.5 Gb while the content of the zipped file that I see it's around 50 kb. If I concatenate the files with the command copy /b data.ext4.win000? outputfile regardless the extension I give to "outputfile" I'm no longer able to open it with 7-zip.
Any suggestion/hint please ????
Not finding entire folders/files while browsing backup
I find the same thing regardless of the mechanism I am using to browse the backup. I am looking in /data/data for my own apps' data. Here is what I have tried so far:
1. Nandroid Manager app
2. TWRP Explorer app
3. ZArchive app
4. In a terminal, cat data.ext4.win??? | tar -tv > less (and then searching for my apps' package names
I was looking inside my nightly full backup to extract and recover some files I accidentally deleted. Cannot even find folders for the package names (except for 1 app). However, when I do a full restore from the same backup inside of TWRP Recovery, the missing files are indeed restored. So I know they are in the backup.
Why can I not find them and get at them any way else? I must be missing something simple.
Thanks
BTW - in the recovery.log file in the backup folder, I see the folders/files in question being "added". Very odd.
BTW2 - at least with regards Nandroid Manager app, I noticed that I was seeing some files I know I had removed from my apps some time ago. How could that be? I decided to clear data/cache for Nandroid manager and try again. It took much longer to process the backup for exploring. But now at least that app seems to be doing the right thing and I can see all folders/files.