Root Velocity Backup Tool

[donkeyrattle]

Forgive me if I am an idiot. I successfully did a complete backup using Trident's tool before updating to v.4 velocity. Now that I am in v.4 what do I do? My browser does not have the backed up bookmarks, phone doesn't have backed up settings etc.

Do I have to manually move folders out of "Velocity_Backup" to correct directories to make this work? I was under the assumption that everything would be automatic including old themes that were backed up. I am probably way off haha. Any help would be appreciated, thank you in advance.

 

[dots]

Theres a restore command i believe. Look at the velocity v0.4 thread. Under the commands section.

 

[ludeawakening]

Theres a restore command i believe. Look at the velocity v0.4 thread. Under the commands section.

Yes I believe just using -restore in the terminal should work.

 

[donkeyrattle]

Awesome! thank you so much guys

 

[donkeyrattle]

Maybe there is another thread for issues with the restore but now my market and messaging force close over and over.

 

[PowerBomb]

Try clearing cache? Maybe now that you backed up you have old and new duplicates of things in the cache and it's confusing the phone.

 

[donkeyrattle]

I just restored to a backup that I created shortly after flashing to v.4

It may have caused issues that I had manually went through astro to the velocity_backup folder and installed apps from there

O well everything is great now

 

[Zoandroid]

I tried to use the Velocity Backup tool, putting the zip file in the root of my SD card as instructed. But when I then tried to run it using terminal / su / backup as the instructions say, all I got was a "backup not found" error. Am I supposed to extract files from the zip file and put them somewhere before I start?

 

[donkeyrattle]

to run it you must use "restore" not "backup".

 

[Zoandroid]

Please understand that I wanted to use this tool to make the backup which can be restored after I install the Velocity ROM. What I had not understood was how to get the tool up and running. I got some help on the Ally IRC channel just now and have come to understand I need to install the tool as one would 'flash' a zip file by booting into Recovery, ( I use ClockworkMod Recovery) then selecting Install Zip from SD, and selecting the tool's zip file. Once that was done I could then follow the steps to run 'backup -c' within the Terminal Emulator, which created a complete backup for Velocity to use and restore all my stuff once it is installed.

Thanks.