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?
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.
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.
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.
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'
