What You’ll Need
For this tutorial you’ll only need two things
Why a rooted phone? Rooting an Android phone simply means modifying
your phone so that applications can have root (administrator) access to
the Android operating system. Titanium Backup requires root access to
Android in order to effectively backup every aspect of the system. If
Titanium Backup did not have root access it would not be able to access
systems files to backup system data and it would not be able to access
restricted applications in order to copy the application itself and
(sometimes) the data for backup.
Installing Titanium Backup
If your phone is rooted and Superuser
is installed, installing Titanium Backup is a breeze
Performing Your First Backup
Once Titanium Backup in installed and you’ve repeated “I will not
click on buttons that perform unfamiliar tasks!” three times, you’re
ready for your first backup. Click on the Backup/Restore tab. Click the Menu button on your phone. From the menu that pops up at the bottom of the screen select Batch. From the large Batch menu select [RUN] Backup all user apps + system data.
You can opt to only backup user apps or system data by themselves, but
we installed Titanium Backup so we could do fast and total backups of
our entire system and we suggest you do the same—it’s no fun to find out
one data catastrophe too late that the thing you really wanted backed
up wasn’t.
Once you select your backup roster, you’ll be prompted one more time.
Titanium Backup wants to know if you want to kill the active apps or
exclude them. You can also choose not to include certain applications in
the backup. Since we have nothing pressing going on in any of our
active applications we opted to Kill active apps and left all applications checked. Comprehensive backup is where it’s at. When you’re done with the batch selection menu click Run the batch operation.
Depending on the processing power of your phone and the number of
applications you have installed the initial backup process can take
anywhere between a minute or two to a quarter hour or more. Plug your
phone in to charge and leave it be until it’s done. When’s complete
you’ll see the Backup/Restore menu again. Now instead
of a bunch of caution triangles beside each application (the not-backed
up indicator) you’ll see a variety of smiley faces and check marks. If
you’re curious what each smiley face and other marks means, click the Menu button and then click Legend
to get a run down. If you see all red/M, yellow/M smileys, and check
marks, everything was backed up as intended. If you see caution
triangles mixed in there it’s time to run the batch again—unless the
missing backups are the apps you didn’t want to kill and/or excluded
from the batch list.
If everything looks good, what now? Navigate to /TitaniumBackup/
on your SD card; there you’ll find all your backups. Copy the entire
directory to your computer for safekeeping, sync it to your cloud
storage, or otherwise back it up. Titanium Backup is only worth as much
as the backups you keep. No backups after a catastrophic data lose (that
may or may not have taken your SD card with it), no restoration points
to work with.
That’s it! Your first backup is complete! From here you can Schedules
tab and schedule a weekly backup (upgrade to Pro to enjoy a more
flexible and unlimited scheduling system). You can also tap on an
individual app in the Backup/Restore list at any time to perform an immediate and one-off backup.
Restoring a Backup
When it comes time to restore there are several options. Just like
you can batch backup everything on your phone you can also batch restore
everything. Navigate to the batch menu you as you did above by going to
Menu-> Batch while on the Backup/Restore screen.
Scroll down until you see the Restore subheading. There you can select
the option that suits your batch restoration needs just as you did for
your batch backup needs—see the first two panels of the above image.
A less drastic approach, let’s say you just want to restore your
Angry Birds unlocked levels that have gone missing in action, is to tap
on an individual application in the Backup/Restore list and click Restore—see the last panel above the above image.
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