Root How do YOU back things up?

TiBu is probably the best option out there. What don't you like about it??

try mybackup root.

Ok.. this is getting fraustrating. My droid intercept is 2.1 and ive been trying to update. Ive done all the things i needed to do, downloaded all the needs.. but when i try to reboot into bootloader or recovery.. its not happening. People keep saying there are different ways to do it and i promise ive tried every one of them... no luck. I think i might have lost my recovery... any way i can just start all the way over? HELP!!!

This is the one major chink in Androids armor if you ask me. They are definately behind Apple as far as making a simple, non-root app or built in system that saves everything for you so you can try things out in confidence.

Sure there is a slew of methods you can do if you're rooted, but honestly you shouldn't have to void the warrantee of your phone just so that you can back it up reliably. The Google cloud, while good... isn't great. And I would certainly never rely on it alone to keep all of my precious information on my phone safe. So this is what I do everytime I'm about to flash a new ROM and want to make sure I have all my bases covered....

1. First of all I open AppBrain and sync my phone to the database. Once I see all of my apps on my computer screen, I know I'm good to go after that.

2. Next I open Titanium Back Up and do a fresh back-up of everything, apps + data.

3. After those are done I bootstrap into recovery and create a nandroid using Droid X Bootstrapper by Koush. I used to then go into ROM Manager and hit 'Back-Up Current ROM'. But then I wised up to the fact that it was the exact same thing as creating the nandroid. No need to do that step twice, although it wouldn't hurt anything (except storage space).

I've had some luck with all of these methods, but I've also seen each fail. When I flashed my very first ROM (UDX) for instance, once I opened TiBU I tried to do a batch restore of all my apps and data.... and it just spun for like 15 minutes and never restored a single app. I did a battery pull, booted back up and tried again, with the same result. So I did another battery pull, booted up and tried going in and restoring just a few apps, one at a time. I still just got the spinning circle but no restored apps. So that disappointed me. Had to log onto my computer, pull up AppBrain and reinstall most of my apps all over again from the market. I had like 156 apps at the time, and only 22 of them had shown up after flashing the ROM. Still don't know what to make of that?

I've also (with that same ROM) had problems with AppBrain syncing apps to my phone. Now that I'm more experienced (that was my cherry popper, so I wasn't sure if that was the way flashing ROMs always went down or what?) I can sort of see that perhaps it had something to do with that ROM? But the problem was, I could pull up the list of 156 apps on my computer, but when I tried to make it the list that my phone would sync with, and hopefully install the other 134 apps that didn't install when I first booted it up... it didn't help out my phone at all. My phone would just keep making a new list on my computer of the 22 apps that were in my app drawer at that time. Frusterating.

Then there's bootstrapper, like I said before I used to always make a nandroid with bootstrapper, and then go into ROM Manager and back up my current ROM. Well the very first time I ever tried doing a 'factory reset' I had done that. So after the wipe I tried to restore using the back-up I'd made with ROM Mangager... it failed! Oh my God I remember being SOOO pissed at that very moment, I thought I'd bricked my phone. So I immediately went in and tried restoring with my nandroid I'd made in bootstrapper, and it worked flawlessly.

I'm pretty sure at that point I jumped on here and was singing the praises for Bootstrapper! But, I was unaware back then that both of those back-ups were nandroids... so I don't know what went wrong with the ROM manager version. All I know is that using all 3 of these safeguards I've been able to keep things running smooth. But I still say Google needs to step up their game and get us an air tight back up system that runs in the background, that we don't have to think about, and that saves us from ourselves when we inevitably screw our devices up from time to time.

Heck, even Steve Jobs can do that!

You can never have enough backups.

Just on the side of safety I copy my clockwork backup and titanium directories to my PC (just about every 2 weeks). If there is ever a SD card failure have that extra layer of protection. It also a good idea every once in a while to copy your entire SD content to your PC or any other source. I would hate to have to recreate my entire mp3 library if there was a crash (never had my SD card crash) or if my phone is lost or stolen.

My SD card has become corrupted and I lost everything. Backing up an entire copy is wise.

I've lost so much on my computer that honestly, I can deal with losing things. I just do a backup under clockwork.

I'm another one who creates multiple backups using multiple methods. Nandroid, Titanium Backup (apps+data), Astro (apps), because as was mentioned previously, "you can never have too many backups ".