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The article says that local-backups are still going to be a thing, and that it'll use the new format (so that you can restore ex an Android backup on iPhone and
by theknarf 1y ago
The article says that local-backups are still going to be a thing, and that it'll use the new format (so that you can restore ex an Android backup on iPhone and the other way around). Presumably you'll have to bring your own solution for storing the backup, but if its just a file / archive then you can store it however you store the rest of your backups.
- XorNot 1y agoThe issue isn't "just a file" - it's whether that file can be streamed off my device. Signal's backups are easily one of the largest files, and I don't want 3 copies of it on my phone (which is what backup currently does). I really want the backups to stream off to my own version of the backup service, and do the neat deferred media thing which would be great for keeping long range archives (i.e. by letting them get picked up by my server's regular snapshot to backblaze).
- igor47 1y agoI currently configure signal to back up into a directory that's synced to my server via syncthing
- XorNot 1y agoWhich is what I used to do and the problems were Signal keeps two copies of the file by default and puts them on your device memory. So your device ends up having 3 copies of the same data, on the same device. This is rather impractical if you have a lot of content in Signal, which I do because my family use it extensively to send photos and videos (which is the sort of thing you generally really want to backup).