ROM Manager, CWM & Backing Up / Restoring

[woshiweili]

I have the latest ROM Manager (5.0.1.5) and the latest CWM (5.8.4.9) installed and am a little confused about backing and restoring. When I used RM/CWM on my old EVO 4G it was very straight forward but doesn't seem to be the case with my new GS3.

When I use RM to backup my current ROM, it seems to be successful but doesn't show up in the list of backups when I go to RM and click on "Manage and Restore Backups". However, if I go into Recovery I can find it by navigating to backup and restore. I'm assuming the problem is that RM automatically backs up to my external SDCard while RM only reads from the internal SDCard. I was able to manually backup to the internal SDCard from Recovery and it shows up in the list in RM but the date & time are all messed up (not to mention I can't rename it in Recovery).

I suppose it's not impossible to use but it seems "messy" to me. How is everyone dealing with this?

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Also how do you manage the backups via Recovery? I now have 6 backups that I made via RM which ended up in the external SDCard but I can't seem to delete them in Recovery. I'm also not sure where they are when I browse in FTP as there is nothing under the clockworkmod directory.

 

[evoer]

CWM is fastly becoming old school, do some searching for installing TWRP using goomanager. It is an awesome recovery tool with many, many new features not found in CWM.

 

[billard412]

CWM is fastly becoming old school, do some searching for installing TWRP using goomanager. It is an awesome recovery tool with many, many new features not found in CWM.

Twrp is good for backups and being able to run commands but is definatly missing some features.ROM manager has gone to hell but there is an option in settings for using external storage. Ur backups are in clockworkmod/backups. And you can rename ur backups qhile in cwm recovery w/ this. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1646108. And if ur gna use twrp, get it from their site and flash in mobile odin. Goo manager sucks and its interface is confusing. Takes an hour to find **** in there. An accident waiting to happen

 

[woshiweili]

Thanks for the recommendation. So far so good.

Ur backups are in clockworkmod/backups.

That's what I figured but the directory is empty even though CWM shows at least 3 backups

 

[billard412]

Thanks for the recommendation. So far so good.

That's what I figured but the directory is empty even though CWM shows at least 3 backups

That's odd did you check internal and external?

 

[woshiweili]

That's odd did you check internal and external?

I see what it is. I was accessing it through the app, FTP Server and that app can only read internal SDcard, where the backups are not located.

Thanks for your help.

I'm now all TWRP'ed up and so far it is nice.

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Under "Wipe" in TWRP I see Cache, Dalvik Cache, Factory Reset, System, External Storage, Internal Storage and Format Data.

Normally when I flash a new ROM with CWM I would wipe data, cache & dalvik cache. With TWP, when I click on Format Data, it says this wipes all media, including backups & removes encryption. Is that right? Or do I wipe System, which says "This will wipe your ROM"? Thanks.