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Root delete nand backups?

scotty85

scotty85

Extreme Android User
since i change roms like a change my socks,im starting to starting to stockpile nand backups :eek:

i write down what they are in case i need/want to reflash a particular one,but i was thinkin maybe i should delete a few i know im not going to use.

anyone else do this? or do you just let the list keep getting longer? :)
 
At this point, the only ROMs that I run are CELB and xtrSENSE. I keep about the last five Nands that I have run of each, and as I upgrade to a new version, I will keep one of each version that I have run, going back maybe two months. It's not as formal as that sounds, but I clean them up every once in a while.

I do always label them, adding a code for which ROM it is at the end, like this: BDS-20110118-2305-CELB41
 
FYI, be careful to only use "regular" characters when (re-)naming your Nandroid backups (i.e., letters, numbers, dash, and underscore) or you might encountered unwanted Nandroid restore failures.

There's probably other "safe" characters, but since the custom recovery is basically building a shell command to invoke the nandroid-mobile.sh script, using characters that the shell might interpret in an unwanted way might yield "scary" results. :eek: :D

We already know that spaces and ampersands are "bad"... ;)

Just a word of caution. Cheers!
 
scary alien said:
FYI, be careful to only use "regular" characters when (re-)naming your Nandroid backups (i.e., letters, numbers, dash, and underscore) or you might encountered unwanted Nandroid restore failures.

There's probably other "safe" characters, but since the custom recovery is basically building a shell command to invoke the nandroid-mobile.sh script, using characters that the shell might interpret in an unwanted way might yield "scary" results. :eek: :D

We already know that spaces and ampersands are "bad"... ;)

Just a word of caution. Cheers!
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Asterisks and, I think, slashes would be bad as well. Periods are fine, though. I used to use them all of the time (i.e., BDS-20110112-2210-CELB.4.1), but I got lazy. And tired of the fact that my keyboard of choice automatically spaces after periods.
 
doogald said:
Asterisks and, I think, slashes would be bad as well. Periods are fine, though. I used to use them all of the time (i.e., BDS-20110112-2210-CELB.4.1), but I got lazy. And tired of the fact that my keyboard of choice automatically spaces after periods.
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lol....yeah, I put some checks in my AFV app to look and warn for space, asterisk, question mark, less than, greater than, pipe (vertical bar), semi-colon, and ampersand characters when you are checking a Nandroid backup.

By the way, I haven't forgotten about the other sort order / feature that I promised you in AFV... My focus got taken away from that app onto another, but I've learned a ton of new stuff that I plan to go back and put some niceties in AFV (including the better sort order).

Cheers!
 
Renaming them is an excellent idea. Also good advice on what not to use! That possibility wouldn't have occurred to me.
 
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