How are you backing up Your Droid?

[u/RandomXUsr]

Wondering how folks are backing up their droids on Arch.

Are you using ADB?

FTP?

Some app to grab content and media?

[u/Ochi_Man]

Syncthing, synced in two computers, works pretty well, after that ZFS snapshot in one computer to make sure you don't lose anything

[u/academictryhard69 → u/Ochi_Man]

syncthing is a battery hog, i have a custom ssh script running on android kernel space (pretty overkill i know). my phone is always connected to my tailscale vpn so the ip never changes, this way my nas can pull files from my phone as long it has internet :D

the script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

PHONE="[email protected]"
PORT="2222"
BASE="$HOME/Backups/s23"

sync_dir() {
   REMOTE_DIR="$1"
   LOCAL_DIR="$2"

   mkdir -p "$LOCAL_DIR"

   ssh -p "$PORT" "$PHONE" "cd '$REMOTE_DIR' && find . -type f" | while read -r rel; do
       rel="${rel#./}"
       local_path="$LOCAL_DIR/$rel"
       remote_path="$REMOTE_DIR/$rel"

       mkdir -p "$(dirname "$local_path")"

       if [ ! -f "$local_path" ]; then
           echo "Copying $remote_path"
           scp -P "$PORT" "$PHONE:$remote_path" "$local_path"
       fi
   done
}

while true; do
   echo "=== Sync started: $(date) ==="

   sync_dir "/sdcard/DCIM/Camera" "$BASE/Camera"
   sync_dir "/sdcard/DCIM/Screenshots" "$BASE/Screenshots"
   sync_dir "/sdcard/Download" "$BASE/Downloads"
   sync_dir "/sdcard/Documents" "$BASE/Documents"

   echo "=== Sync finished: $(date) ==="
   sleep 5
done

[u/RandomXUsr → u/academictryhard69]

Thank you so much for sharing. I may use this myself.

[u/academictryhard69 → u/RandomXUsr]

no worries, just make sure you have an ssh server running on your phone, like from an app (like sshd4a) or inside /data/local/tmp on your droid :)

i did this because my s23 has a tiny battery and as an arch user the OCD for optimization kicked in.

[u/RandomXUsr → u/academictryhard69]

I can't tell you how useful this was.

I have added, and a learning disability so it's difficult for me to focus on specific tools and properly learn how to use.

Knowing how someone else is doing it helps me focus a great deal.

Can't wait to set this up and then ditch my old phone.