Curious about both android and iOS because I want to know what to recommend to friends. I'm asking about Google Drive because that's what is simplest for my peers right now.

With Facebook adding AI directly into messenger, I have some people wanting to switch to Signal. However I'm not confident in my process for backups.

Right now I'm using FolderSync which is working well. The problem is deletion, where the deleted file sticks around in the trash for 30 days, eating up storage space until I manually delete it. Since the Signal backups can get quite large, the trashed backups are enough to put me over the limit.

I didn't try WhatsApp that long, but it had a built-in feature to backup to Google Drive. I don't need that level of simplicity, but something close would be nice.

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[–] solrize@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Google drive is also privacy invasive, look at that guy who got banned for sending medical photos of his kid to the pediatrician. i've been using a self-hosted nextcloud instead of google drive, but these days back up to my laptop through rsync from termux over a usb cable. i've noticed with nextcloud, if I upload a folder with lots of photos, a few of them will fail and keep spamming notifications with retries. That is mostly on my old phone though.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

I agree, and I'm planning something similar for myself

Since this is for friends, and since signal backups are encrypted, I wanted to see if it was possible with existing cloud backup services that they already use