I’ve identified most replacements apps to use on my pixel 10. The thing holding up my switch to graphene is photo storage and phone backups. I plan to use the app immich but where do you actually store your photos and back up your phone?
syncthing, simple and easy
That does look nice and simple but where does it go? Do you use cloud storage or did you build something?
You can run syncthing on Fedora/Debian/Arch (or even MacOS) and any device can be your “where does it go”. You don’t need cloud services or a local server.
I self-host Immich for photo storage on my own server. All photos from my phone are automatically backed up there.
The immich server is backed up daily using restic, and those backups are stored in a Hetzner storage box. This way I have a local photo server plus an encrypted off-site backup in case something happens to the server.
I’m sure I could figure all that out but looking for something quick and easy to start. Don’t want learning all that delay me leaving Google.
If you’re not ready to go full self-hosted Immich then Ente Photos seems like a good replacement for Google Photos
Hadn’t heard of that. Looks cool thanks
Photos auto upload to Ente Photos. I periodically manually back it up locally to my desktop and an external hard drive. I cut and paste directly from my phone to free storage and so I don’t have to scroll through Ente to see where I left off last backup.
General file storage like documents I use Tresorit. Mostly because it has a Linux app, otherwise I’d probably go Proton Drive. Proton Drive I use solely for game saves and whatever other random stuff I use on my Windows partition, which is not much. Similar to photos, I have a local backup on my external hard drive for important files.
I don’t back up my actual phone. I did make an app list in Notesnook, but by the time I get a new phone I tend to use the opportunity to downsize anyway. And to throw surveillance capitalism off my trail in case I made a few mistakes in not being careful over the period of owning the phone.
Proton Drive does automatic photo backup.
As far as phone backup. I just always start fresh with each new phone anyway.
It’s nice to hit the reset button every few years.Thanks everyone for the responses. I’m thinking I’ll go ahead and move to graphene soon. I’ll leave my google account alone for now so I can access from a browser. I’ll sign up and use Ente for new photos going forward until I can build a nextcloud server. My contacts and calendar are already moved to my proton account.
A NAS in my house and backed up to a NAS at a family member’s house
This was my plan until the storage prices went nuts
Yeah sadly the drives have gotten out of control… But you can always expand the NAS over time.
I connect the phone with my computer (with USB cable) and copy the files (textfiles, PDFs, photos) to my computer and then to my backup drive.
rsync to my laptop, which is periodically imaged to a couple of external disks, one of which sits under a fake plant at work when not actively used.
On Debian, I install
android-file-transfer, mount my phone manually withaft-mtp-mount ~/androidmount, then runrsync -a --progress '/mnt/android/Internal Shared Storage' '/path/to/backup'If the Android folder is too much trouble, you can also run
rsync -a --progress --exclude 'Android/' '/mnt/android/Internal Shared Storage' '/path/to/backup'
