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Syncthing saved my ass (feddit.it)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Note for Americans: here WhatsApp is the de facto communication standard. Literally nobody uses SMS/iMessage/Facebook messenger/signal. And carriers still charge 2 euro for a MMS which completely kills iMessage/RCS (if accidentally send MMS, it's expensive)

I switched phones and instead of copying manually /Android/data/media/com.whatsapp I used the new feature of pairing via qr code.

Besides that's a not very well designed feature (you need to start transfer on the old phone before logging in the new phone) because they really want to store unencrypted backups on Google drive, the transfer completed in a short time.

Maybe too fast, I was expecting at least one hour to transfer the 5000 photos 10gb, instead it completed in 20 seconds.

So I told myself, ok photos not transferred, I'll just do that manually and directly put them in the photo archive on my PC rather than keep them mixed with all the "happy holidays" trash.

I browse the old phone to /Android/data/media/com.whatsapp and... It's empty. Wiped clean after the "successful" transfer process!

Luckily I had set syncthing (the fork on fdroid, the one on play store doesn't have access to whole storage) to have a full overnight backup! On my PC I still had all the photos, almost deleted too as I noticed that I didn't set the "trash can" option

Conclusion: go to download syncthing fork from fdroid and have a safety net from mistakes like this

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Cool story bro, but your feelings don't change the facts: signal's backup system isn't fit for purpose.

A backup system that can't effectively back up and be restored is a flawed system.

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

Cool opinion, however, i didn't ask.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not really an opinion.

And I know you didn't ask, I was just correcting what you wrote.

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

I was just saying that your opinion is not a discussion point. And furthermore that i don't care about it.

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

It is a discussion point, since it's here being discussed. And also, apologies. I didn't realise I was dealing with such a badass.

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

What? Are you perhaps a little stupid?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I don't think you're following. We were discussing the state of backups on Signal, then you suddenly decided not to talk about it, but to keep talking about nothing in particular.