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and the idea of Titanium Backup is it
copies all of the data on your phone, including any cache data, personal data
related to each application and stores it for you, and it will store it on the SD card
or within the device itself on its own memory
and then you can send all of that data that Titanium Backup has saved for you
and you can put it on a cloud storage service like Dropbox, like Box.com or Boxnet should I say
and on Google Drive.
So this is my Titanium Backup
and you can see the various settings that I currently have in use.
If I go into backup and restore
here are all of the apps currently Titanium Backup stored
on my device but you can see here I've just finished
refreshing this device
So I don't have a huge amount on here of actual running apps as it were installed.
But if I keep coming down this list in a moment we'll start seeing things with
lines through them and these are the items that are stored on my
SD card, there we go, and these have been backed up by Titanium Backup.
So as you can see here
lots and lots of games and other various applications.
If I want to restore one of these, all I have to do
is select it, let's just pick one that's not too big because
obviously, the larger the file that you're trying to restore or back up
the longer it will take on the device.
But let's just pick something quick and easy. Let's take Google Earth.
And all I do is hit on restore
I have the app only on this one.
And it will start restoring, and that's it. Done.
Now I can come into my app tray
find Google Earth
and there's the application.
And you can see because that was stored actually on my SD card
the installation time etcetera, it didn't have to wait to do any downloading
or anything like that first it just worked.
Within Titanium Backup, let's go back in,
you can set up schedules
so I have a few schedules here
and my most important ones are my sync to Dropbox and my sync to Google Drive.
And what will happen is those will activate whenever the phone is on power
and the timer is hit
twelve thirteen fourteen twenty six
and it will then run, well, that's the last run times but it will basically run
any time it's on power and a timer is met, so if I go into edit here.
So elements to sync, history recover from a remote location
and basically it would just run this any time it's on power
for this particular one.
If it's on power it starts downloading to Dropbox and Google Drive and all of my stuff is stored
there automatically
which means that if I need to I can hop on to Dropbox, say I have lost
something off my Titanium Backup SD card,
I don't keep nearly 7gig of data
backed up actually on my device only the ones that I'm probably going to want to restore
effectively anything over the last six weeks or so.
But if I do need something that's older I can go and grab it off Dropbox
pop it straight on to the phone and then restore it quite happily.
There is a wealth of options in here. You can do all sorts of clever things so if you go in and create a new
backup routine or routine
in here you have all sorts of different things that you can do, a schedule
so verifying all of the backup routines backing everything up redoing the
backups
keeping a history so you can create staged backups
so effectively you can have back-up one of an app, back up two of an app, back up three of an app
and as many as you want
or it will start overwriting until it reaches a certain point
so that allows you to keep different versions so for instance
save games is one of the easiest ones to look at that there so you know
save the game
save one, save two, save three. And because it's saving from Titanium Backup rather than the game you
get a better kind of snapshot as you are going along in my opinion.
No chance of you overwriting your saved games. It works quite nicely from that perspective. You have all sorts of
stuff in here.
It's well worth looking at as an app.
If you come into the actual settings and preferences even more options in here.
Absolutely loads of stuff. This is an app
that does take a little bit of getting used to,
you'll have to play around with it a little bit, every device is different,
and every set up will be slightly different from what you're trying to do with it.
Have a play around. If you find that an app gets jammed so it won't actually
restore or anything like that or seems to be taking a long time, go and check within
your settings
and just make sure that in developer options
you got USB debugging turned on. That's
the primary problem
that you get with Titanium Backup.
If you haven't got USB debugging turned on it can start failing and causing all sorts of
weird problems.
That's Titanium Backup.