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Backup to SFTP

Open FBachofner opened this issue 4 years ago • 7 comments

It would be great to have an SFTP server address + port + folder as a backup location option.

Why:

  1. Not everyone wants the "weight" of NextCloud.on their server(s)
  2. Local backup requires an extra step to sync / transfer.
  3. USB-OTG is not always physically available and/or flaky on some devices

Thank you for your consideration.

[ I am posting this enhancement request as a separate issue as per @stevesoltys comment in #171 (now closed by me) ] .

FBachofner avatar Dec 01 '20 20:12 FBachofner

One good way to have this is adding support for an existing SFTP app that supports SAF.

That means that there's only a one line change needed to Seedvault, adding that app to the whitelist of supported providers, if it works well. It'd be similar to #167 and #169

chirayudesai avatar Dec 01 '20 21:12 chirayudesai

Has somebody found the time to look into this? I'd love to have this feature.

renatobellotti avatar Dec 29 '20 10:12 renatobellotti

I would be interested in that, too. Meanwhile I configured my SFTP share in Nextcloud as external storage and have seedvault backup it to that location. Kind of a workaround but performance would be much better if access via SFTP would be directly available.

Flunkyball avatar Jan 21 '21 20:01 Flunkyball

Would be pretty cool, because in that case I could backup to my home NAS. 👍

basemod avatar May 07 '21 17:05 basemod

I too would love this! Then I wouldn't have to plug a thumbdrive into my phone to back it up.

Silent-Hunter avatar Feb 22 '22 22:02 Silent-Hunter

This would be awesome. I started using a storage box and I would love to keep my encrypted backups there. For that it would be nice to also deposit my public key within Seedvault, see https://github.com/seedvault-app/seedvault/issues/138

simonsan avatar Feb 26 '22 18:02 simonsan

ftpclient now supports the storage access framework. It works with FTP, FTPS, and SFTP.

Stebalien avatar Jul 03 '23 14:07 Stebalien

This can now be used via Roundsync added in #609

grote avatar Apr 05 '24 13:04 grote

@grote By the way, not sure if it's worth it to open another issue for it, but opendal is probably also worth to be looked into: https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.apache.opendal/opendal-java

https://opendal.apache.org/

simonsan avatar Apr 05 '24 14:04 simonsan

This can now be used via Roundsync added in #609

I installed RS, but it did not show up in SeedVault's target location list. SeedVault is the version that came with LineageOS 21 latest night, version 14-4.0. Is it not showing because #609 is not released yet or you mean that I choose the phone's local storage for SeedVault's target location, and then use RS to synchronise the ".SeedVaultAndroidBackup" directory with an SFTP server?

HubKing avatar Jun 25 '24 12:06 HubKing

No, as far as I understand (@stevesoltys may know more) you install the Roundsync app, set up SFTP there and then it will show up as an option in Seedvault.

grote avatar Jun 25 '24 13:06 grote

You need to set "Enable Content Provider Preview" on in RSync configuration under "File Access".

stevesoltys avatar Jun 25 '24 14:06 stevesoltys