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Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?

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Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?

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Post by XorNot »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #17

You don't. Google backup is partial and very limited compared to what apple does, plus privacy issues and you don't get access to app folder without root. (I know about adb but then you can't push the files back there). So it's a shitshow as usual with Android, it all depends on the app. My weight lifting app it can backup on Google cloud. Great. My 2Fa on the other hand it only backup to the 'external' storage, need…

Yeah Google's implementation here objectively sucks.

I should be able to toss my phone in a river, buy a new one and get it back exactly the way it is.

Syncthing handles the stuff which matters to me, but it can't get apps back exactly the way they were.

Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?

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Post by [deleted] »

m463 wrote: post #28

wow, hacker news and all these people just "phoning it in" We really need more folks to hack on their phones and set/spread a good example. Otherwise "general computing" will be replaced by landlords. The concept of a landlord may be traced back to the feudal system of manoralism (seignorialism), where a landed estate is owned by a Lord of the Manor... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landlord#History

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Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?

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Post by cf100clunk »

m463 wrote: post #28

wow, hacker news and all these people just "phoning it in" We really need more folks to hack on their phones and set/spread a good example. Otherwise "general computing" will be replaced by landlords. The concept of a landlord may be traced back to the feudal system of manoralism (seignorialism), where a landed estate is owned by a Lord of the Manor... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landlord#History

xdaforums abides! Be of good cheer.

Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?

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Post by RIMR »

The only thing on my phone that really ever needs to be backed up is my pictures, videos, and audio recordings. I use Owlfiles to automatically back all that up to my NAS via Tailscale for fast secure connectivity to my home network. Everything else is Nextcloud on the same system. All of that data gets backed up daily to Backblaze B2, and once per month I write everything to an LTO-6 tape that I swap out between 3 tapes: One in my bank deposit box, two in my firesafe.

Backblaze costs me about $100/year for the ~2TB of data I store there.

I got my LTO-6 drive for free from my employer after we upgraded to LTO-8.

I got a 20-pack of new LTO-6 tapes from eBay for $100, and have no idea what to do with the remaining 42.5TB of space. I guess after several years of rotating my existing tapes, I should start using new ones.

Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?

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Post by deathanatos »

m463 wrote: post #28

wow, hacker news and all these people just "phoning it in" We really need more folks to hack on their phones and set/spread a good example. Otherwise "general computing" will be replaced by landlords. The concept of a landlord may be traced back to the feudal system of manoralism (seignorialism), where a landed estate is owned by a Lord of the Manor... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landlord#History

Perhaps a few more responses now from people who own their data?

There are still a scary few "I use adb" or "I copy the data over MTP"

Sadly, not everything on the phone is visible to those two. IIRC, [MS]MS logs aren't (I might be wrong here though) and if you use Google Authenticator, your OTPs aren't, which I learned the hard, hard way.

I need to root my phone.

Re: Ask HN: How do you backup your Android?

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Post by treyd »

I use CalyxOS and sync with the Nextcloud app to my home server. There is Seedvault built in but I've found it to be slightly janky. Many apps can directly operate on files synced through the Nextcloud app like that, or at least directly export backups to Nextcloud through the file provider APIs. Calendars and contacts are supported through WebDAV apps lile DAVx5.

It pretty much just works with little manual involvement.

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