Root Question regarding backup

[willbill0587]

Thanks to John Bean for his help, I am now rooted for the first time.
I used the WUGs toolkit which made it all very easy.
When I used the toolkit, I backed everything up before unlocking the bootloader.
I rooted with a custom recovery image.
When the toolkit was going onto the bootloader screen on my phone it was doing stuff with TWRP and making backups I think?
After root had finished, I went into the bootloader screen onto recovery mode and got the teamwin twrp recovery? screen then made a 'full nandroid backup'.

Now I have around 700mb on my phone taken up with backups. Do I need to keep all of these? Can I store them in box or dropbox or do they have to stay on the phone?

I installed titanium backup but do I need it?

Sorry for all the questions but I don't really have a clue whats going on with all of this.

 

[new optimus]

Thanks to John Bean for his help, I am now rooted for the first time.
I used the WUGs toolkit which made it all very easy.
When I used the toolkit, I backed everything up before unlocking the bootloader.
I rooted with a custom recovery image.
When the toolkit was going onto the bootloader screen on my phone it was doing stuff with TWRP and making backups I think?
After root had finished, I went into the bootloader screen onto recovery mode and got the teamwin twrp recovery? screen then made a 'full nandroid backup'.

Now I have around 700mb on my phone taken up with backups. Do I need to keep all of these? Can I store them in box or dropbox or do they have to stay on the phone?

I installed titanium backup but do I need it?

Sorry for all the questions but I don't really have a clue whats going on with all of this.

You will want the most recent back up to stay on the phone, as if there is a problem and you can not boot the phone you can not transfer from your computer or drop box.
The rest can be moved.
titanium backup can be very helpful but its personal if you "need" it.
I have never used it, I do most things myself, the hard way lol.

 

[John Bean]

Glad to have helped

Titanium isn't really the same as doing a backup pf the whole device, it essentially allows you to keep incremental backups of apps and their data such that they can be restored in any permutation - like recovering from a bad updated app, for example. It's very flexible but also simple enough to use.

Oh BTW - I don't keep Nandroid backups on the device (they're easy enough to copy back and forth as needed) but I do let Titanium do its thing since it's quite economical with space. Titanium has saved my bacon on more than one occasion, I wouldn't be without it.