Best Way to Backup

[fshnrob]

Just looking for the best solution to backup my phone. I have an N1 and I've backed up my Contacts but nothing else. I saw an app that looked pretty good. I was wondering what others are doing and what would be the best way to back up my phone. I appreciate any feedback.

 

[Duvi]

Titanium Backup is the first that comes to mind.

 

[kid108]

Google voice does an excellent job...

 

[rugmankc]

fshnrob,

Titanium BackUp is for rooted phones. Are you rooted?

MyBackup is one of the best for stock phones, I am trialing it now. Get it on the Market. They recommend not restoring Gmail and GCal even though you can back it up. Best left to Goolge Servers.

Nandroid Backup is for rooted phones which can be installed thru ROM's like ClockworkMod ROM Manager. It does full image backups and is one of the bests. I can't do links yet, but you can search.

I am still stock. But will root and install Nandroid BackUp thru the way I mentioned above after 2.2 comes out.



Ken

 

[superflush]

I've been using Lookout, but I don't know if its the best.

 

[fshnrob]

Thanks for the responses I really appreciate it. Rugmankc, my phone is actually not rooted. I've been thinking about trying MyBackup. How do you like it so far? Thanks for the advice on not backing up and restoring my Mail and Calendar.

 

[rugmankc]

It is extremely easy to use, I will probably buy it. However, on the most important part, restoring, I haven't done that yet. But, reviews are good, so I won't worry. Nice thing about using GMail, Google Contacts, and Google Cal, all important things to me are already backed up on the sever. At least for me.


Ken

 

[KrispyKrink]

For the most part I just backup the SD Card to my Mac every week. This takes care of photos which auto imports to iPhoto and apps that are allowed to be backed up via ASTRO File Manager on the N1. For contacts, settings and email, I just let Google do that.

I don't really see a need for anything else.

 

[RayStinkle]

i'm trying to figure out the best backup method as well. i'm on the original froyo ROM, but all these new ROMs keep coming out with new features. but everytime i flash a new ROM i will lose my call logs, texts, etc. i just dont want to start over AGAIN.

of course i do nand backups, which is a total 100% image backup. but its not possible to, say, nand backup on cyanogen mod, then install froyo and restore the cyanogen nand to the froyo, right? that wont work? i assume it would either crash and not work, or it DOES work but just put cyanogen right back on the phone exactly the way it was, thus losing the froyo ROM update in the first place. any advice?

 

[rugmankc]

i'm trying to figure out the best backup method as well. i'm on the original froyo ROM, but all these new ROMs keep coming out with new features. but everytime i flash a new ROM i will lose my call logs, texts, etc. i just dont want to start over AGAIN.

of course i do nand backups, which is a total 100% image backup. but its not possible to, say, nand backup on cyanogen mod, then install froyo and restore the cyanogen nand to the froyo, right? that wont work? i assume it would either crash and not work, or it DOES work but just put cyanogen right back on the phone exactly the way it was, thus losing the froyo ROM update in the first place. any advice?

Don't know if anything on this forum would help, or if you can post on it.

24/May - FRF50 (Froyo) pre-rooted update zip + no radio option + more - xda-developers



I would like a 32gb thumb drive, so my entire SD Card can go on it. I do backup SD to PC and do Acronis Full Image.

Ken