On Wed, 1 Apr 2026 at 13:09, vsis <[email protected]> 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)
