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Root Can't make a nandroid backup - Just hangs at Data.img

So it manages to create img files for boot system, and data, and there's nothing in the log? Interesting. I've had clockwork get stuck before while making a nandroid backup. It was backing up cache, though. Not data. I was able to fix it by just wiping cache. Unfortunately, my only suggestion at the very moment is to wipe data, and try again. Of course, that completely defeats the purpose, but there might be corruption somewhere that only wiping data will fix.
 
I think you're right. I'm assuming it's something that is perhaps corrupt my ROM I'm backing up. I have other backups that I can use so I think I'm going to bite the bullet and wipe. I'll hop on to Unrevoked IRC first though. Thank you guys for your help
 
Yeah, see what they have to say about it first, but I'm thinking the end result will be the same. At least you have other backups :).
 
So I wiped and could not flash a backup. I was able to flash a new ROM, Cyanogenmod. Since then I have made two successful backups and restored one! Celebrating with a beverage.

Thanks for your help. I love this forum.
 
Yep, sounds like that was your problem. Weird that you couldn't restore a backup, though. What happened when you tried?
 
It hung again for a long time, like 15 minutes. Just made line after line of dots like it did when it was backing up. It seems like I may be the first for this issue. I think it must have something to do with my Vaelpak rom and that it got corrupted it somehow. I'm not experienced enough to know.

I'd like to try Vaelpak again though. I was seeking a really stripped down, AOSP-like ROM that still retained 4G. Vaelpak seemed really good until this issue which is probably not anything to do with the rom. You guys know of any good options?
 
In my case a corrupt huge file was locking the backup.

This command will report files bigger than 10M in /data:
Code: 
find /data -size +10000000c -exec ls -ld {} ";"

So you can decide whether to delete them.

In my case it was /data/data/com.rechild.advancedtaskkiller/cache/webviewCache/60aba3ee size was more than 18000 PetaBytes :eek:
 
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