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What do you use to backup files from your phone to Google Drive? Is there anything that can permanently delete the old files? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Curious about both android and iOS because I want to know what to recommend to friends. I'm asking about Google Drive because that's what is simplest for my peers right now.

With Facebook adding AI directly into messenger, I have some people wanting to switch to Signal. However I'm not confident in my process for backups.

Right now I'm using FolderSync which is working well. The problem is deletion, where the deleted file sticks around in the trash for 30 days, eating up storage space until I manually delete it. Since the Signal backups can get quite large, the trashed backups are enough to put me over the limit.

I didn't try WhatsApp that long, but it had a built-in feature to backup to Google Drive. I don't need that level of simplicity, but something close would be nice.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Just use Syncthing and whatever chat app you like.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thank you, I'll try it.

What's the difference between this and Syncthing-fork? I see both recommended in different threads

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Syncthing-fork has a couple of mobile-specific enhancements, like only sync on a schedule, never on mobile data, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But the official SyncThing was more recently updated, last I checked. Should that be of concern?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

My version of Syncthing-Fork is currently at 1.27.6, same as the official version.

I wouldn't be surprised if it lags behind for a day or two for the changes to be merged, but most if not all of it is specific to the Android wrapper, not the Syncthing core.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Oh, good to know, thanks!