Automatic Mobile Device Backups?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

I’m just diving into self-hosting, and I’d a way to have a constant cloning of my phone in the background, preferably FOSS. Does anything like that exist?

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synapse1278@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Syncthing is nice and simple to use on all platforms. I like it.

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BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
On GrapheneOS and lineageOS you’d have Seedvault which does exactly that

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- LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’m actually going through the painful process of switiching to lineage right now. It’s gonna take a long time for me to manually backup my voice recordings since my phone is unroofed, but I’ll look into Seedvault once I get there. Thank you!
  
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  - BautAufWasEuchAufbaut@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Why do you need to manually backup them? Aren’t they just files?
    
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Smash@lemmy.self-hosted.site ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You can’t backup android App data without root. With root, use Neo Backup and Syncthing for that

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- kratoz29@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Is Neo Backup better than Swift Backup?
  
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  - Smash@lemmy.self-hosted.site ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I don’t know, haven’t tried Swift Backup yet
    
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RandomLegend@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
i’m using Autosync to backup my files on my NAS every day. It doesn’t require Root therefore it can’t create “real” backups that you could restore from. It can only copy the files from your Phone; Pictures, Files, etc.

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- TheInsane42@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  That’s useful when you have a backup tool like TitaniumBackup (root needed) to do the backup locally to SD. That negates the need to sync to one of the 3 supported cloud platforms. (where a selfhoster wouldn’t want to store the data)
  
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Showroom7561@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I use SMBSync2 (f-droid) to back up select folders from my phone to my NAS. And to copy any new music from my NAS to my phone.

Most phone backup solutions won’t backup the data (i.e. settings) of your apps, unless you are rooted. The majority will backup either files and/or files, SMS, phone logs, etc.

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