Post #134977
2026-01-15 10:50 UTC
Replies (5)
-
@falkheiland@fosstodon.org 2026-01-15 11:39
@Bene@fosstodon.org what data are we talking here? Media / contacts / events all go to / come from selfhosted services in my case.
-
@jakob_thoboell@kirche.social 2026-01-15 12:10
@Bene@fosstodon.org Backup is only partly: - SIgnal file and Kamera are synchronized via syncthing to My PC - Contact information saved on Sim card and ocasdionally backuped.
-
@dasgrueneblatt@wien.rocks 2026-01-15 13:37
@Bene@fosstodon.org 1) "Everything" is copied to local storage at home whenever the phone is in the home wifi and a certain machine is running: A shell script mounts the phone storage made available by primitiveFTP app on phone and copies photos, downloads, recordings, some settings, some exports. Some files are renamed in the process. What exactly gets copied, where it is found and where it goes is manually defined and redefined for every new app/phone. Local home storage later gets automatically backuped to second location. The primitive FTPd app is not really primitive :masto_lol: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.primftpd It has lots of options depending on whether you've got root access etc. 2) new photos and videos are automatically uploaded to own nextcloud whenever on wifi (additional level when traveling)
-
@rantanlan@social.tchncs.de 2026-01-15 14:41
@Bene@fosstodon.org i don't have much to backup, all is synced with the respective apps... photos, contacts, mails, chats... from time to time i export some app settings if it'is available but thats it.
-
@murteza@edmontonian.social 2026-01-15 19:55
@Bene@fosstodon.org What you are asking can only be achieved by something integrated into the OS. Thankfully we have Seedvault. Seedvault is a backup system that doesn't have a standalone app, but integrated into many ROMs, and accessed via Android system settings. It does daily encrypted "low level" backups, primarily to a USB storage, or some other medium of your choosing. Seedvault comes with many ROMs, including Graphene, e/OS/, and Calyx. It also works with Nextcloud 😀 https://medium.com/@glenn.sorrentino/host-your-own-mobile-backups-with-seedvault-and-nextcloud-dd3bb1632487 Heads up: Seedvault uses Android's system wide backup API. This API allows apps to opt-out of system wide backups if they choose, which is often used by messaging and banking apps for user data to not end up in Google servers. In my case, I set Signal messenger to backup into a specific folder where it keeps backups of last 2 days. Then I use Nextcloud app to sync that folder.