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Backing up my Galaxy Nexus

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paroots

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We're transitioning from an iPhone using iTunes to a Galaxy Nexus using Titanium Backup Pro for backup/recovery. iTunes does an 'all in one' backup with a single click from iTunes. Titanium Backup allows you to backup all apps and their associated data, but does nothing with your pics, videos, music, etc. I'm wondering how best to handle the backup (and possibly restore) of stuff Titanium doesn't backup.I've experimented with Windows Explorer and WiFi File transfer to move this stuff back and forth between phone and my Windows PC. Both seem to have their use. This is mostly an organization and efficiency question since I don't have problems doing the physical transfer. For example, it might be a good idea to create a single folder on my phone's internal SDcard and put everything there. This would make backup and restore easy. The question, though is whether all apps running on the phone could find it or rather choose to create their own folders. Ideas, please! BTW, we have made some Nandroid backups using NRT v1.5.3 and will use those in the event of a catastrophic issue.
Pete
 
Hey, I moved this to the Galaxy Nexus forum, mainly because the MTP file transfer is not common to all Android, so its better in the device forum. Thanks for understanding. :)

When I back-up, I make a mirror image copy of my internal storage, and just keep it as the same structure in a folder on my PC.
 
AntimonyER said:
When I back-up, I make a mirror image copy of my internal storage, and just keep it as the same structure in a folder on my PC.
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+1

That's exactly what I do. Dropbox with DropSync also works beautifully for backing up camera pics and screenshots to my PC hard drive. SO essentially I have two backups of my photos.
 
The folders my pics and videos are in, are set to sync to Sugarsync, so as soon as I take them, they start uploading (except for videos, I set that to upload only when I'm plugged), and my PC starts downloading them as soon as they are uploaded to the servers so they are backed up.
 
AntimonyER said:
Hey, I moved this to the Galaxy Nexus forum, mainly because the MTP file transfer is not common to all Android, so its better in the device forum. Thanks for understanding. :)

When I back-up, I make a mirror image copy of my internal storage, and just keep it as the same structure in a folder on my PC.
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Thanks. What software do you use to make the mirror image?
Pete
 
basically highlight everything in the internal storage folder copy and paste it to a folder on your desktop (saves all pictures and videos)
 
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