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Re:Signal Secure Backups by UltraSane on Monday September 08, 2025 @05:35PM (#45174322)
USB transfer is by far the best way to transfer large amounts of data to and from phones.
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Re:Signal Secure Backups by codethief on Monday September 08, 2025 @06:49PM (#45175135)
Really? Ever since Android devices ceased to be regular USB storage devices and switched to MTP, this has never worked well for me. MTP is incredibly slow.
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Re:Signal Secure Backups by UltraSane on Monday September 08, 2025 @07:58PM (#45175705)
What method do you find to be faster?
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Re:Signal Secure Backups by kzshantonu on Monday September 08, 2025 @09:22PM (#45176287)
Copyparty running in termux serving over USB tethering
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Re:Signal Secure Backups by codethief on Monday September 08, 2025 @10:08PM (#45176594)
Pretty much any other: Connecting my phone to my computer as USB storage (when it was still possible), connecting a thumb drive to my phone, syncing files using Syncthing, using adb, …
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Re:Signal Secure Backups by roywiggins on Monday September 08, 2025 @10:19PM (#45176648)
MTP is so slow that when I have enough photos and videos on my phone, Windows will crap itself and stall out just trying to list the folder. It's functionally unusable and I don't know how I'd get those files off the phone if I didn't use literally anything else. If it was mass storage I could just rsync it over USB but it isn't so I can't.

I ended up using rclone on Windows with an rsync server running on the phone, I think sshd4a usually.

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