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Root recovery backup

rhino889a

rhino889a

Android Expert
Just did a backup through recovery .
now backup is generating
2 files for cache data and system
ext4.tar and a ext4.tar.a
the ext4.tar is empty
the ext4.tar.a seems to contain the backup data.

i have never seen this before
 
yea, thats how it gets done now. basically the tar.a has your data in it and if you pull it rename it removing the .a you can extract it like normal.
 
wow, i did a few backups just the other day and there was no .a
seemed weird its doing it today.
so restore will work left as it is?
 
rhino889a said:
wow, i did a few backups just the other day and there was no .a
seemed weird its doing it today.
so restore will work left as it is?
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yea. Dunno what version of cwm you are use to, but it has being doing that for quite some time now. lol
 
using the one that came with your rom.
i must be looking at old backups from the 2nd init apk.
just freaked me out. i thought i borked permissions or something.
thanks for the info
 
rhino889a said:
using the one that came with your rom.
i must be looking at old backups from the 2nd init apk.
just freaked me out. i thought i borked permissions or something.
thanks for the info
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prudy sure the version of cwm in 2nd-init rec does it too, but I cant recall the original version that was in the apk. Only thing that actually got updated in it was the recovery binary. ;)
 
i must have been using the original 2nd init apk
i have the backups i made last week , they dont have the tar.a
but its all good
 
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