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Re:How do you backup your Android? by troyvit on Thursday January 09, 2025 @10:26PM (#42652139)
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.

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Re:How do you backup your Android? by choobacker on Friday January 10, 2025 @01:46AM (#42653259)
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.

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Re:How do you backup your Android? by troyvit on Friday January 10, 2025 @11:15AM (#42656943)
Nice, thank you!
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