best backup mechanism

[Guest igotnexusone]

Hi,

Finally trying to get a solid understanding of how others are backing up their apps and settings when switching roms.

There is nandroid and bart and nandroid + ext.

My goal is simply to backup everything so after playing with an experimental rom I can go back to where I was previous with the least amount of pain.

Titanium backup seems to work pretty well overall but doesn't keep my home screen setup and there are a few other things it seems to miss, minor things.

I've yet to really understand what nandroid and bart are doing and the best way to use them.

Can someone please share their experience with these tools.

Specifically how you use them

A step by step is what I'm looking for.

Thanks

[Guest xkonni]

Hi,

Finally trying to get a solid understanding of how others are backing up their apps and settings when switching roms.

There is nandroid and bart and nandroid + ext.

My goal is simply to backup everything so after playing with an experimental rom I can go back to where I was previous with the least amount of pain.

Titanium backup seems to work pretty well overall but doesn't keep my home screen setup and there are a few other things it seems to miss, minor things.

I've yet to really understand what nandroid and bart are doing and the best way to use them.

Can someone please share their experience with these tools.

Specifically how you use them

A step by step is what I'm looking for.

Thanks

Nandroid backup backs up the data (user settings, market apps), system (system apps, framework) and boot (ramdisk, kernel) partitions. They get wrapped up as .img files and end up in /sdcard/nandroid/HT.../date .

Upon nandroid restore, you select one of your previous backups. The img files are unwrapped and written back to their partitions.

All is just like it was before the backup and you can continue where you left of before trying that experimental mod :(

With recovery 1.6 there's now nandroid + ext. Which is the same, but included the sdcard's ext partition (Thats where apps get saved when using apps2sd).

Never used bart before, i assume its similar to nandroid, but can't say for sure.

In general nandroid works flawless, except theres one minor bug, upon restore you might loose root access. But that can easily be repaired.

( abd remount && adb shell chmod 6755 /system/xbin/su )

Edited February 23, 2010 by xkonni