Thought people are talking about backups without a "cloud" involved. So you'd need to manually connect your phone to something...

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nine_k 7 days ago | parent | next [-]

Wireguard + syncthing (from F-Droid) work fine. Triggering it when the phone is on the charger makes it very easy to sync things from a computer to the phone, while next to the computer.

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hiq 7 days ago | parent [-]

To be clear, Signal + Syncthing also works fine, that's what I have.

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XorNot 7 days ago | parent [-]

It absolutely does not work fine. Keeping 2x the size of my database in free space on my phone to let backups work it's no solution at all, which is why I stopped doing it. (The backup creates two files - current and previous, and Syncthing can't remove complete files to another location, so you need an actually rather difficult to write script to do it).

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roywiggins 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

I never really grokked Syncthing.

I recently vibe-coded a crappy Windows Go GUI to grab files off my phone via rclone & sshd4a and then optionally delete them, but it's a very manual process since sshd4a has to be running on the phone before I initiate the pull.

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XorNot 6 days ago | parent [-]

Syncthing is just open source Dropbox, self hosted.

It's entire purpose is "make two folders identical".

It's very good at that: so good that I frequently wish it did other things - i.e. if it had some notion of minimum seeding levels so it would destage files off a device provided they were replicated elsewhere (e.g. automatically clearing old photos off your phone would be a good use of it).

	▲	roywiggins 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, I think I was just trying to get it to do something it wasn't suited for!

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nine_k 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I see. I was talking about Syncthing in general, not about the specific way of backing up Signal.

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Sesse__ 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

What? My phone has a perfectly working 802.11 chipset, which is able to talk to my very own machines that are not in a cloud, no manual connection needed. This is purely a software/ecosystem issue.

	▲	dmesg 7 days ago \| parent [-]
		Imagine we could run the backup server backend self-hosted and FLOSS. Like Vaultwarden, the upstream bitwarden client API.