Comment by izacus
2 years ago
Please stop peddling this horrible experience as a form of a valid backup. A process that requires full manual interaction and requires you to know ahead of time when your phone will break or be stolen is not a useful backup process.
Eh? My Signal auto-backups every night to a device folder which I then replicate off with Syncthing. How is that requiring "full manual interaction"?
I think GP is being a little too harsh, but I also think you're being a little too generous. If it requires a third-party tool like sync thing, then it seems like a hard point to argue that signal has Auto backups. It's better than nothing, but it is definitely not as seamless as most users would expect from a backup solution.
It doesn't "require" Syncthing, I just choose to use it. I could choose to keep it on my device, or upload it to Dropbox or something else. Even keeping it locally is still a backup that protects against the device corrupting it's local database or accidentally getting uninstalled / cleared.
There's no single obvious thing called "this is what everyone wants from backup".
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