Mobile Back up?
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Is there a way to run your own back up server ( virtual ? ) for mobile phones? I am almost out of space on my android, and I know a few people who may need to back up IOS apple products..
Just a thought, any suggestions? I don't want to lose all of the pictures of my son, but i want them to be easily accessible.Edit I should add- outside of plugging into a computer- Basically looking for a cloud based mobile back up for pictures.
or if anyone knows a way of creating one.again, just a thought.
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For pictures, it's very different than backing up the device itself. Why not use a service like Flickr and send all your pictures there automatically to protect them?
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@scottalanmiller said in Mobile Back up?:
For pictures, it's very different than backing up the device itself. Why not use a service like Flickr and send all your pictures there automatically to protect them?
Didn't know that was an option. This just kind of came out of nowhere for me here today.. Backing up the Device as well doesn't sound like a bad idea either..
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Nextcloud
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@wrcombs said in Mobile Back up?:
@aaronstuder said in Mobile Back up?:
Nextcloud
can you elaborate?
Have a Nextcloud instance somewhere. Download the Nextcloud app to your phone and sign in. Setup the app to automatically backup your photos and other items to your Nextcloud instance. You lose your phone or it dies? No problem.
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@wrcombs said in Mobile Back up?:
@aaronstuder said in Mobile Back up?:
Nextcloud
can you elaborate?
Just install Nextcloud, and back up yoru data there. Nothing to really elaborate on, it's online storage and you can copy anything you want to it.
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@nerdydad said in Mobile Back up?:
@wrcombs said in Mobile Back up?:
@aaronstuder said in Mobile Back up?:
Nextcloud
can you elaborate?
Have a Nextcloud instance somewhere. Download the Nextcloud app to your phone and sign in. Setup the app to automatically backup your photos and other items to your Nextcloud instance. You lose your phone or it dies? No problem.
Fair enough, I didnt know if there was a configuration to it, or What nextcloud really was, granted I couldn't have looked it up.
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@nerdydad said in Mobile Back up?:
@wrcombs said in Mobile Back up?:
@aaronstuder said in Mobile Back up?:
Nextcloud
can you elaborate?
Have a Nextcloud instance somewhere. Download the Nextcloud app to your phone and sign in. Setup the app to automatically backup your photos and other items to your Nextcloud instance. You lose your phone or it dies? No problem.
This is what I do.
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@wrcombs Google Photos is excellent as well, free and supports Android and iOS
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@wrcombs I use "UpThere" from Western Digital. It's a dollar or 2 a month(I'd rather pay than give google more of my info) plus nice gui for the wife when she looks at and downloads pictures from her laptop. It syncs pics and video from my phone whenever I am on wifi.
Nextcloud is certainly nice and works well but you can have UpThere running in 2 min or less
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@jmoore You trust WD more then Google?
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@aaronstuder I do. Admittedly I guess its because I have not heard of all the things they do like Google does with your info. I hope they do not but who knows.
I know with google and any other free service I am the product. I don't know if its true but I hope if I pay for a service my information is a little more private. So I tend to do this as much as possible. I prefer to pay for as much as I can to mitigate that.
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What about the backup of the nextcloud instance?
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@francesco-provino said in Mobile Back up?:
What about the backup of the nextcloud instance?
That backup of the backup would be a completely different question.
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@wrcombs If you move the primary storage to the nextcloud instance, this is not backup anymore. How do you effectively backup the nextcloud instance? I use a script I made with borg that stops the service, dump the db etc.
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But you could do something as simple as syncing do a desktop or VM somewhere, if you wanted.
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@francesco-provino said in Mobile Back up?:
What about the backup of the nextcloud instance?
You could back up your NextCloud to an external Storage instance like Amazon S3 or Wasabi (this one seems to be a good deal at the moment -- $5 / TB /month).
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@francesco-provino said in Mobile Back up?:
@wrcombs If you move the primary storage to the nextcloud instance, this is not backup anymore. How do you effectively backup the nextcloud instance? I use a script I made with borg that stops the service, dump the db etc.
Isn't the whole Idea behind Nextcloud is to be used as a back up of the primary storage for devices? I haven't looked into this enough to tell you one way or the other as to how I would back up the back up, Probably would take @scottalanmiller 's advice and back it up to a VM . . .
