"I back up my photos using termux, rsync, and rsync.net. This model seems pretty solid."
This is a common workflow.
In addition to termux/rsync we do see a number of people using syncopoli.
FWIW, my personal phone is an iphone and I use the excellent 'iexplorer' to browse the phone as if it were a filesystem.
Can you share resources on how to backup through termux? I hadn't thought of that.
I wrote a how-to!
https://troyvit.net/2023/01/backing-up-android-to-rsync-net/
It has one error. termux-job-scheduler isn't a separate install.
Re:How do you backup your Android?
by choobacker on Friday January 10, 2025 @01:46AM
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One extra tip is to use rrsync to restrict which folders your rsync client can read/write to: https://b.tuxes.uk/termux-rsync-photos.html
This helps mitigate ransomware, and escalation (e.g. reading previously backed up files) attacks.
Nice, thank you!
Re:How do you backup your Android?
by snapplebobapple on Thursday January 09, 2025 @09:29PM
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try flickboard. once it stops melting your brain it is awesome
Stop using F-droid. It is insecure and shouldn't be the primary way of installing apps. Stick to Aurora Store or Play Store
Could you elaborate on that? Do you mean bigger possibility of apps containg malware or what?
The handling of the project appears quite troubling, the whole board resigned last year: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/447
https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/, the recent findings of bypass of certificate pinning [0], wireguard creator doesn't trust f-droid himself [1], continued harmful attacks to GrapheneOS devs [2] and a few more points regarding their build infra using a deprecated debian release.
[0] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/08/8
[1] https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/issues/3110#note_1613...
[2] https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/issues/7#note_22877...
Re:How do you backup your Android?
by orbital-decay on Friday January 10, 2025 @12:52AM
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Why is it insecure?
I read your sources, and one, as a user, I'll let these people sort out their drama among themselves, two, the security issues of the apps that are downloaded I think are way higher potentially than the ones in F-Droid in itself. With these considerations, F-droid is fine as a way of installing apps. Just as fine as any other technically imperfect service, business, or product that we use daily. In fact, I consider it higher than average in quality.
Re:How do you backup your Android?
by GoblinSlayer on Friday January 10, 2025 @01:48AM
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I just did tar / | netcat
App backup? who cares? This was a chance for me to see what's new on F-Droid and it's been great (lookin' at you keyboard.futo.org).
I back up my photos using termux, rsync, and rsync.net. This model seems pretty solid. I should extend it to app data, but I don't have an automated way to back up app data yet. It's just a thing I have to do when I think of it, which is a recipe for disaster.
I'm taking syncthing out of the picture. I was using it to share markdown, html and some graphics between devices and my phone, but I regularly end up diffing .conflict files. I hope to get better behavior from Nextcloud.
Still, I'm the same happy guy I was before December 30 so I think a few manual app data back-ups, back-ups for non-photo content to Nextcloud so I can share it between devices more easily, and the same old rsync stuff for photos should work great.