[Droid RAZR M Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] joofeloof:
I apologize if I've overlooked something simple here, but I am unable to restore my backups. I have swapped to PhilZ Advanced Touch CWM Recovery 6.0.3.7 newly posted in the Android Development Sub Forum.

I believe the error lies in that, for some reason, the external sd card is included in the data partition size calculation (I'm shooting in the dark here but when performing a backup it says needed free space is 21401 MB...I have a 16gb external sd card in the phone). The backups complete with CWM and only take up approx. 1500 MB.

When restoring any of the previously created backups, they all fail at the point of the /data partition. Is there some easy fix for this moving forward (maybe something simple I can change in one of the dumped backup files)? Something I need to reformat?

FWIW I had this problem of 21 GB backup size with TWRP 2.5 as well (yet TWRP fails because it does not continue without the necessary free space).

Any insight would be most appreciated!

Are the errors contained the log typical or do they point out something obvious that needs attention?

Thanks,

Joof

Here are the relevant pieces from the log of the backup being performed....not sure how to grab one from the failed restore and would prefer not to as I have to end up re-flashing the phone :)

------------------------

Starting recovery on Tue Oct 1 23:30:13 2013

(UTC)

can't open /dev/tty0: No such file or directory

framebuffer: fd 3 (540 x 960)

CWM Advanced Edition 5

CWM Base version: v6.0.3.7

I:Build version: 5.15.0 - cm_xt907

recovery filesystem table

=========================

0 /tmp ramdisk (null) (null) 0

1 /boot emmc /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/boot (null) 0

2 /system ext4 /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/system (null) 0

3 /cache ext4 /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/cache (null) 0

4 /data ext4 /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/userdata (null) -16384

5 /sdcard datamedia /dev/null (null) 0

6 /external_sd vfat /dev/block/mmcblk1p1 /dev/block/mmcblk1 0

7 /logo emmc /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/logo (null) 0

8 /modem ext4 /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name/modem (null) 0

W:Unable to get recovery.fstab info for /datadata during fstab generation!

W:Unable to get recovery.fstab info for /emmc during fstab generation!

W:Unable to get recovery.fstab info for /preload during fstab generation!

W:Unable to get recovery.fstab info for /sd-ext during fstab generation!

I:Completed outputting fstab.

I:using /data/media/0 for /sdcard

I:Processing arguments.

I:Checking arguments.

Warning: No file_contexts

I:Warning: No file_contexts

I:device_recovery_start()

I:Cannot open /data/philz-touch/philz-touch_5.ini

I:nandroid_compression set to default (fast)

I:Cannot open /data/philz-touch/philz-touch_5.ini

I:nandroid_md5sum set to default (1)

I:Cannot open /data/philz-touch/philz-touch_5.ini

I:show_nandroid_size_progress set to default (1)

Command: "/sbin/recovery"

ro.boot.hardware=qcom

....

....

(REMOVED FOR BREVITY)

I:Checking for extendedcommand & OpenRecoveryScript...

I:Skipping execution of extendedcommand, file not found...

I:Skipping execution of OpenRecoveryScript, file not found...

I:ro.modversion=pa_scorpionmini-3.99-RC2-30SEP2013-084601

I:setting up /data/media(/0) for /sdcard.

I:using /data/media/0 for /sdcard

I:Checking needed space for backup '/external_sd/clockworkmod/backup/2013-10-01.23.30.25_pa_scorpionmini-3.99-RC2-30SEP2'

E:Failed to find partition size '/boot'

I:/system backup size (stat)=430Mb

I:/cache backup size (stat)=105Mb

I:/data: tot size=4784Mb, free=3600Mb, backup size=21401Mb, used=21709Mb, media=308Mb

I:/external_sd/.android_secure backup size=0Mb

>> Free space: 6414Mb (42%)

>> Needed space: 21937Mb

>> Unknown partitions size (1): - /boot

>> Backing up /boot...

Backing up boot image...

Backup of boot image completed.

Volume not found! Skipping backup of /recovery...

I:setting up /data/media(/0) for /sdcard.

I:using /data/media/0 for /sdcard

>> Backing up /system...

(APPS LISTED...REMOVED FOR BREVITY)

Backup of system completed.

I:setting up /data/media(/0) for /sdcard.

I:using /data/media/0 for /sdcard

>> Backing up /data...

(REMOVED FOR BREVITY)

Backup of data completed.

I:setting up /data/media(/0) for /sdcard.

I:using /data/media/0 for /sdcard

>> Backing up /external_sd/.android_secure...

Backup of .android_secure completed.

I:setting up /data/media(/0) for /sdcard.

I:using /data/media/0 for /sdcard

>> Backing up /cache...

(REMOVED FOR BREVITY)

Backup of cache completed.

No sd-ext found. Skipping backup of sd-ext.

Generating md5 sum...