Warning!! Warning!! Dont lose your backups!!

[ATRIXXIRTA]

VERY IMPORTANT!!

I recently FTF'd up to 4.2.2, rooted, and installed CWM.

The first thing I ALWAYS do when I first root and install CWM is make a backup of stock, to have incase I need it.

Now I always name the backup according to the date I created it, and usually use my favorite file explorer (es file explorer) to find the backup and rename it.

When I attempted to do this, I could not find my backup ANYWHERE!!! I thought maybe It didn't get created properly or something, yet, I saw and big ding on my storage capacity, presumably due to the backup I made, but couldn't find.

I just happened to stumble across a message in ROM Manager that gave me the answer I was looking for.

In ROM Manager it states:
"In Android 4.2, backups are placed in a secure directory, INACCESSIBLE to other apps.
Backups can be pulled with ADB or by using the ROM Manager Backup Download Server."


Basically you HAVE to use ROM Manager to find and rename your backups if your using CWM on Android 4.2


Figured I would post this and save people the headache I went through trying to locate the backup I made.

Check the attached picture of the message that's in ROM Manager.


Thanks and happy flashing!

 

[havanahjoe]

VERY IMPORTANT!!

I recently FTF'd up to 4.2.2, rooted, and installed CWM.

The first thing I ALWAYS do when I first root and install CWM is make a backup of stock, to have incase I need it.

Now I always name the backup according to the date I created it, and usually use my favorite file explorer (es file explorer) to find the backup and rename it.

When I attempted to do this, I could not find my backup ANYWHERE!!! I thought maybe It didn't get created properly or something, yet, I saw and big ding on my storage capacity, presumably due to the backup I made, but couldn't find.

I just happened to stumble across a message in ROM Manager that gave me the answer I was looking for.

In ROM Manager it states:
"In Android 4.2, backups are placed in a secure directory, INACCESSIBLE to other apps.
Backups can be pulled with ADB or by using the ROM Manager Backup Download Server."


Basically you HAVE to use ROM Manager to find and rename your backups if your using CWM on Android 4.2


Figured I would post this and save people the headache I went through trying to locate the backup I made.

Check the attached picture of the message that's in ROM Manager.


Thanks and happy flashing!

Ah yes! I had forgotten about that from the Nexus 4! That explains why I was missing some space, and of course this means I lost the backup I had. Luckily I have a Titanium Backup of my apps and settings, and the pictures were not that important.

 

[ATRIXXIRTA]

Ah yes! I had forgotten about that from the Nexus 4! That explains why I was missing some space, and of course this means I lost the backup I had. Luckily I have a Titanium Backup of my apps and settings, and the pictures were not that important.

You may have your backups still. Just look for them in Rom manager.

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[havanahjoe]

You may have your backups still. Just look for them in Rom manager.

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No, I wiped the /data partition when installing a clean version of the .423 FTF. I was missing about 7 GB of space when on RomAur, and I bet some of that space was used by at least one backup. I don't think I had more than one though.

 

[ATRIXXIRTA]

Wiping data doesn't erase your backups. Our anything on your sd cards. Formatting your storage or manually deleting them is the only way to erase them.

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[JRBT24]

I save my CWM backups on the external SD card so it doesn't disappear even when I upgraded to 4.2

Press thanks if I helped

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[ATRIXXIRTA]

Ya that's for sure the way to do it.

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