CWM Recovery restore not working

[l14m3]

Hi there, I just installed a rom which I wasn't really a fan of and wanted to go back to my original settings, I did a backup using CwM Recovery but now when I try to restore it it has an error.

Checking MD5 suns...
Erasing boot before restore...
Restoring boot image...
system.img not fund. skipping restore of /system.
data.img not found. skipping restore of /sdcard/.android_secure.
cache.img not found. skipping restore of cache.

any help?

thanks

 

[steslatt]

Sounds like its not backed up properly. Always check in your backup folder after a backup that has been done, you shouls either see these 6 files (CWM V5):
recovery.img
boot.img
nandroid.md5
cache.ext4.tar
data.ext4.tar
system.ext4.tar

OR these 5 files (CWM V4):
cache.img
data.img
system.img
boot.img
nandroid.md5

 

[Hawker]

Sounds like you have a cwm version miss match. I've had cwm v5 backup that I could not restore as I had cwm 4 operational.
Install a kernel with the version of cwm that you used to perform the backup and the restore should work fine unless of course as steslatt mentioned there is actually a file missing

 

[l14m3]

I think you may have hit the nail on the head there hawker, the version of cwm I have installed now is 4 something or other but the version I did the backup on is 5, which kernel has this off the top of your head?

 

[steslatt]

I think you may have hit the nail on the head there hawker, the version of cwm I have installed now is 4 something or other but the version I did the backup on is 5, which kernel has this off the top of your head?

Siyah kernel will install cwm v5

 

[l14m3]

siyah kernel indeed did install the correct version, just finished my restore, back to how it was this morning, fantastic!

 

[Deleted User]

Sounds like its not backed up properly. Always check in your backup folder after a backup that has been done, you shouls either see these 6 files (CWM V5):
recovery.img
boot.img
nandroid.md5
cache.ext4.tar
data.ext4.tar
system.ext4.tar

OR these 5 files (CWM V4):
cache.img
data.img
system.img
boot.img
nandroid.md5

Since in CWM V5, there are tars, rather then img files, how do I use fastboot to restore these?