Re: NetBSD and Android devices

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 1 Apr 2026 at 13:09, vsis <vsis@vsis.online> wrote:
>
> On 4/1/26 10:04, Isac Monção wrote:
> > How do you transfer files between your Android phones and your NetBSD
> > system?
>
> I use Syncthing to automatically synchronize files in my *BSD, Linux and
> Android devices.
>
> That includes photos taken by the phone. So it's kind of an automatic
> backup for photos.

I'd also like to chime in on syncthing - I have it installed on
multiple servers, my laptop and android devices - useful elements
include
- It's a distributed sync system, changes will get synced out, and
then remote devices also sync that data among themselves
- On Android you can easily set rules as to when it runs (only on
battery for example)
- Multiple folders, each with its defined list of who gets to see
and/or update files in it
- Devices can be send/receive, send or just receive
- You can configure per device backup versioning, so any
updated/removed files will be retained for whatever you choose
- It can include "untrusted" devices - data sent to such a device will
be encrypted and rely on the other endpoints to have the decryption
key
- Admin is via web interface, which can be easily tunnelled across
wireguard or even something as simple as "ssh -L 8383:127.0.0.1:8384
remotehost" if you want to avoid the chance of anyone even seeing the
UI

I have, uh, a little over 20TB shared across syncthing, though the
android clients range between 10-100GB (mainly ebooks and opus
converted audiobooks)