Need Help with Phone Backup Automation

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I’ve been meaning to try Syncthing for a while now, earlier I’ve had a good experience with it. I am trying to know if it’s possible for me to have something like this:

  1. Phone → Syncthing Server → S3 Buckets (if possible, with Restic)
  2. After X days, those synced media files are automatically deleted on phone

Currently, I have a good backup automation setup for remote servers using Ansible + Restic + Rclone + Gitea Act Runner which dumps files to various S3 buckets. But my phone’s backup workflow is broken, earlier I used to do copy the files to laptop and then run restic backup to S3 buckets, but that had grown a lot and slowly I couldn’t keep up with 300 GBs files, had to delete original files, so now I am also seeing how can I backup my phone media files, and have incremental backups using restic.

Would love to know your guys setup for taking backups for media files from mobile devices.

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I have smbsync2 app on my mobile and have created a job for backup. Currently I trigger it manually, but guess there are options for scheduled run also. Take a look once.

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Okay, let me explore it, otherwise I guess I’ll try Termux and Restic/Rclone

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This bought me back memories of the trustworthy Tasker days. It was such a bliss to configure and run any tasks automated. Macrodroid and automate are also good.

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