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[snear]

trying to nandroid+ext backup & I'm get error message

"run nandroid-mobile.sh via ADB"

How can I fix this?

Thanks

[Bol2riz]

snear, on May 5 2010, 22:24, said:

trying to nandroid+ext backup & I'm get error message

"run nandroid-mobile.sh via ADB"

How can I fix this?

Thanks

My personal expoerience...
When I where in front of that message I used to backup without ext and it used to work...
You'll also have that issue if you try to backup ext partition while no ext is present on sdcard.

[Snarkasm]

Even though you see that message, it still works. There's a system dump in the nandroid folder of your SD card.

I still don't think you can restore from that image yet, though.

[snear]

Thanks for the help

[nekromantik]

I got the same error and my image folder is around 325mb. Does that sound right?
and what do you mean you cant restore from it? People are using it and restoring it fine.

[Snarkasm]

How are they restoring, nekro? I haven't seen anybody with a Desire able to restore a nandroid to their device using the recovery menu. If you've got links that show otherwise, please let me know! I certainly want the ability.

[nekromantik]

Snarkasm, on May 15 2010, 11:06, said:

How are they restoring, nekro? I haven't seen anybody with a Desire able to restore a nandroid to their device using the recovery menu. If you've got links that show otherwise, please let me know! I certainly want the ability.

I cant remember where I see people talking about backing up before they install custom ROM and then said they went back to backed up image. I cant find anywhere where anyone has confirmed you cant restore. So if you got that info please point me in that direction.

Edited by nekromantik, 15 May 2010 - 11:21 AM.

[irishandrew]

To clarify my experience:

I can Nandroid backup AND restore from the Desire's recovery menu, however *only* if I choose the basic nandroid backup. If I try the option that includes my ext partition then I get the aforementioned error, and a subsequent restore from this fails.

Solution I am using is to backup everything using Titanium. Then I can return to a regular Nandroid image and simply restore my data with Titanium.

Cheers,
Andrew.

[nekromantik]

I dont think Titanium will backup the app data on the SD card.
Wont it be possible to backup using standard nandroid and then create a image of your ext2/3 partition using a linux PC and then if you need to restore, you can restore the image of your ext partition and then restore using standard nandroid for rest of the stuff.

Edited by nekromantik, 15 May 2010 - 01:05 PM.

[irishandrew]

nekromantik, on May 15 2010, 14:04, said:

I dont think Titanium will backup the app data on the SD card.
Wont it be possible to backup using standard nandroid and then create a image of your ext2/3 partition using a linux PC and then if you need to restore, you can restore the image of your ext partition and then restore using standard nandroid for rest of the stuff.

Well, I have all of my apps installed on the SD card and a Titanium restore works fine, keeping my app data and system data (settings etc.). Whilst also maintaining the market status of the apps.

Let me go through what I just did 5 mins ago:

-I was running R3 with A2SD+ (everything on SD's ext3 including cache). Baked a new R3 rom to try a few changes.
-Ran a batch backup with Titanium.
-Plugged sd card into linux and formatted ext3 partition.
-Copied the new ROM zip to the FAT32 partition of the SD
-Put sd back into phone
-Launched recovery
-Nandroid backup
-Wipe (factory reset and cache wipe)
-Flashed zip
-Played with new rom, decided to go back to how it was
-Entered Recovery
-Wiped (for good measure) and restored Nandroid
-Booted into phone
-Installed Titanium from the market
-Ran a batch restore of my apps and data
-Everything back as it was half an hour ago before installing the new rom

I can verify this as my SMS backup app has login data that has been maintained. Market downloads still lists everything as it should. Quick System Info shows my A2SD storage has suitably reduced for the apps I have installed, whilst my phone storage has not.

Hopefully this will put some fears to rest?

Cheers,
Andrew.

[nekromantik]

irishandrew, on May 15 2010, 14:17, said:

Well, I have all of my apps installed on the SD card and a Titanium restore works fine, keeping my app data and system data (settings etc.). Whilst also maintaining the market status of the apps.

Let me go through what I just did 5 mins ago:

-I was running R3 with A2SD+ (everything on SD's ext3 including cache). Baked a new R3 rom to try a few changes.
-Ran a batch backup with Titanium.
-Plugged sd card into linux and formatted ext3 partition.
-Copied the new ROM zip to the FAT32 partition of the SD
-Put sd back into phone
-Launched recovery
-Nandroid backup
-Wipe (factory reset and cache wipe)
-Flashed zip
-Played with new rom, decided to go back to how it was
-Entered Recovery
-Wiped (for good measure) and restored Nandroid
-Booted into phone
-Installed Titanium from the market
-Ran a batch restore of my apps and data
-Everything back as it was half an hour ago before installing the new rom

I can verify this as my SMS backup app has login data that has been maintained. Market downloads still lists everything as it should. Quick System Info shows my A2SD storage has suitably reduced for the apps I have installed, whilst my phone storage has not.

Hopefully this will put some fears to rest?

Cheers,
Andrew.

thanks
that sounds good
did you just do a titanium backup with apps + data?

[irishandrew]

nekromantik, on May 15 2010, 15:54, said:

thanks
that sounds good
did you just do a titanium backup with apps + data?

Yep, exactly.

[ksria]

irishandrew, on May 15 2010, 16:55, said:

Yep, exactly.

Just wanted to echo the thanks for letting us know this is a way to go restoring apps...