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

Hi Jonas,

Apologies for the slow response.  Some neurological issues plus Real Life make
it hard to keep up with e-mail. :(  Anyway, ...

On Sun, 2022-01-23 at 19:44 +0100, Jonas Schöpf wrote:
> Hi Leland!
> 
> Thank you for this suggestion.

You're welcome.

> 
> Mounting with sshfs works just fine.
> I have tried a backup with it, but rdiff-backup is looping when using sshfs.
> Does anybody have an idea why?
> So I mean after everything is copied from my phone it starts again 
> copying from the beginning.
[...]

Hmmm.  Strange.  Although, as I said, I've never done this myself.  You aren't
by any chance mounting _both_ ways with 'sshfs' are you?  That is, mounting the
phone on the backup server, _and_ mounting the backup server on the phone? 
Seems like that would create a recursive loop ... ?

Otherwise, when time permits, I can try some tests between two Linux machines
(sadly, my phone isn't set up for 'ssh' and friends).

Cheers
Leland
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> 
> Cheers,
> Jonas
> 
> 
> On 1/12/22 02:04, Leland Best wrote:
> > Hi Jonas,
> > 
> > On Sun, 2022-01-09 at 17:31 +0100, 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?
> > 
> > If you can 'ssh' to your phone, can you install some "flavor" of 'sshfs'?  If
> > so, then it seems like you could mount your phone over 'sshfs' on a machine
> > with
> > 'rdiff-backup' installed, then do what looks like a backup of a local
> > directory
> > (but is really the 'sshfs' mount point).  Mind you, I've never tried this. 
> > Just
> > a thought.  I _have_ used 'exfat' over USB but that has serious issues with
> > file
> > metadata (date, time, etc.).
> > 
> > > 
> > > Thank you and cheers,
> > > Jonas
> > > 
> > 
> > Cheers
> > Leland
>