Re: cross-platform backup tool rdiff-backup on android phone

[Jonas Schöpf]

Hi Leland!

Thank you for this suggestion.

Mounting with sshfs works just fine.
I have tried a backup with it, but rdiff-backup is looping when using sshfs.
Does anybody have an idea why?
So I mean after everything is copied from my phone it starts again 
copying from the beginning.

Cheers,
Jonas


On 1/12/22 02:04, Leland Best wrote:
> Hi Jonas,
>
> On Sun, 2022-01-09 at 17:31 +0100, Jonas Schöpf wrote:
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I have question about using rdiff-backup to back up my android phone.
> > The backup would be done over ssh, but the problem is that I am (as far
> > as I know) not able to install rdiff-backup on my phone.
> > Is there still a possibility to use rdiff-backup from my PC to create a
> > backup of my android phone via ssh?
>
> If you can 'ssh' to your phone, can you install some "flavor" of 'sshfs'?  If
> so, then it seems like you could mount your phone over 'sshfs' on a machine with
> 'rdiff-backup' installed, then do what looks like a backup of a local directory
> (but is really the 'sshfs' mount point).  Mind you, I've never tried this.  Just
> a thought.  I _have_ used 'exfat' over USB but that has serious issues with file
> metadata (date, time, etc.).
>
> > Thank you and cheers,
> > Jonas
>
> Cheers
> Leland

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