A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which restoration and backup operations are performed for the mobile terminal. For example, the mobile terminal includes a controller performing a backup operation and a restoration operation on the mobile terminal, the controller including an application module for activating a backup restoration application and at least one or more applications; and a Linux kernel module for managing a basic hardware function of the mobile terminal, the Linux kernel module including a backup restoration service unit having an access authority for accessing a file system of each of the at least one or more applications, wherein the backup restoration application accesses the file system of each of the at least one or more applications and then performs the backup and restoration operations on data of each of the at least one or more applications.