04-22-2011, 01:05 PM | #1 |
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Backup Restore Application
Is there a good and preferably free application to backup an image of my SD that has the CM7 installation. It took a LONG time to create and download applications and books. I prefer not to do it again.
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04-22-2011, 02:31 PM | #2 | |
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Backup of CM7 SD card and all of its partitions
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Therefore, have I lost all of my data? Have I lost my CM7 install Can the now single boot partition that uses the whole card be used to do a new install and will it be used for user data storage after that? |
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A single boot partition is useless. Only the boot information is there. See above for what other partitions are necessary. To repair a failed install it would be best to restore the SD card back to factory fresh with the SDformatter application from SDcard.org. That way any old mistakes will not be carried forward to the new installation. |
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I was able to use the EASEUS Todo Backup Home Edition (Free) to backup my entire 16GB SD card (with all 4 partitions).
http://www.todo-backup.com/products/...p-software.htm The Home Edition of EASEUS products are free. |
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Does the backup allow you to grab specific files or something? If it does I could see having both a backup and an image. |
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Secondary reason is the size of the backup. A sector by sector disk imager will always create a backup file that is same as the size of the original disk (16GB in my case) ... even if majority of the card may be unused. EASEUS will compress the first and fourth partitions a great deal (since these are FAT32) and will only make sector by sector copy of partitions 2 and 3 which are small anyway. So the overall backup file size is much smaller. EASEUS will also allow you to do file by file backup, or backing up just one partition and not others etc ... which I have not used, but some people may find useful. |
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I had problems using win32 at first but I wasn't doing it right. I assume you are but do you first browse to the directory the img is in then mouse over the buttons and it tells you which to press to make an image on the device. I wonder if what you thought was an image was possibly a blank file. |
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