Backing up

Laptop

• Sync to Nextcloud.
• Everything else is ephemeral (i.e. can be lost, or is already stored in Git somewhere).

Web server

• MediaWiki: dump SQL, pages XML, and copy /images.

Mobile phone

• SMSs from Android: SMS Backup +, to IMAP.
• Annually export chat logs from WhatsApp to Nextcloud, and then clear from phone.
• Keep no photos, GPXs, etc. on phone.

Other

• Emails: nopriv, email-archiver. Thunderbird 'archive' feature, moving things to Local Folders which are stored in Nextcloud.

Posts

Below are all pages relating to the 'Backing up' keyword. backups

1. 2012-07-22 Rsync.net
2. 2018-11-07 Exporting chat transcripts from Signal
3. 2023-01-05 Spideroak not for backups
4. 2023-01-19 Not a backup
5. 2023-03-22 Upgrading to Kubuntu 22.10
6. 2024-03-27 Looking back through Borg archives
7. 2024-06-30 Upgrading to Kubuntu 24.04
8. 2024-08-05 My Internet Archive account was deleted
9. 2024-08-10 Rsync.net, Borg, and Vorta
10. 2024-12-19 OpenLibrary lists all gone