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

Jonas Schöpf <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general
Organization University of Innsbruck, Austria
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi!

@Eric: Thanks for this interesting pointer. If I find the time, I will 
definitely try it and report back.

@Derek: Thank you very much. For now I will use simple-mtpfs for doing a 
backup. At the moment the backup is running with any errors.

Cheers,
Jonas

On 1/10/22 13:57, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, January 9, 2022 11:31 am, 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?
> 
> I don't think you'll be able to do that.
> 
> I mount my android phone using simple-mtpfs and then using rdiff-backup
> from there.
> 
>> Thank you and cheers,
>> Jonas
> 
> -derek
> 

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