I think I asked before but never got a solid answer. I have a s23, I disable all google and Samsung services I can etc, but I am still stuck with stock android. I plan to move to a better phone in the next year.

However I need a solution for a full phone backup. Not even a sync right now, just plug in and backup all my apps notes and photos (photos are backed up already but I don’t care about doubling up for now.

The reason being I dont want to lose or have my phone stolen and have no backup. I do have FMD installed but still.

This is one big downside of not being fully self hosted yet but refusing to use google products… No instant sync to a new phone if mine is lost.

  • supersquirrel@lemmy.ca
    9·
    19 hours ago

    Use syncthing and just sync all your important folders!

    On F-Droid app store use Syncthing-forked

    https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingfork/

    There are probably other more wholistic and specific ways to do this with apps specifically designed for it, but Syncthing you can use for pretty much anything and any other internet connected device you have you can use Syncthing to share/backup files too.

    You don’t even need internet to use Syncthing, it will work entirely over your local network if both devices are on the same network.

      • supersquirrel@lemmy.ca
        2·
        19 hours ago

        Yeah but you can also set it to copy your DCIM photos folder or whatever (if you want to backup files, make it a one way folder sync in the folder options in Syncthing), if Syncthing is limited it is because of Android’s filesystem limitations not Syncthing.

        Also consider an option that uses termux if Syncthing doesn’t work such as this one that uses rsync and termux.

        https://howtos.davidsebek.com/android-rsync-termux.html

        ^the above tutorial may look intimidating at first, but each step is explained very clearly

        You can also use termux to install Syncthing and then take advantage of termux’s ability to work around Android file system limitations.

        https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/