I have just moved from an android phone, where the phone apps and application data were backed up through my Google ID, SMS messages through Google’s SMS Messenger, contacts and mail through their cloud and my photos/videos automatically sent to my Onedrive account after being taken. What would be the best way of achieving the same things on my Fairphone 6 phone (installed with /e/os)?
I have created a Murena Workspace account which provides 1gb of cloud storage. Can I backup all that I wish to onto this service (I want to get away from Onedrive/Drive)? I notice that on the phone, in Settings, there is under SYSTEM, a Backup menu item. Under this there is Seedvault Backup. Will this feature backup my phone information in case I lose/replace my phone and which to restore my configuration to it? There is also a Change Backup Provider option that doesn’t do anything. I cannot find any documentation online that details how to use/configure Seedvault Backup. I click on Start New backup and choose WebDAV Cloud but cannot find what I should put as the WebDAV URL (I assume this URL points to my murena.io storage space). Where can I find this information? What exactly would be backed up?
There are some limitations … but you might start from simply choosing Seedvault as the backup tool, set the backup destination to SD card and have a trial run. Quite a few things are excluded so is worth noting the limitations as you proceed.
photos/videos and OneDrive: those do get uploaded by “eDrive” if enabled. It has a static folder config of what folders it watches and the sync behaviour isn’t fully 2-way. This with murena having contacts/calendar already is some amount of backup.
I second aibd: use Seedvault (with the d2d option enabled in expert settings) to write to sdcard. Continually transfer that export folder elsewhere. Webdav backup can’t be used with murena atm. Also mind that messengers can have their own internal mechanism.
This isn’t very comfortable I’d agree. But one SV backup is better than none to get restarted.
Thanks very much to everyone who has commented on this post. You have all been really helpful and I am currently looking at using Seedvault to a local external drive and Nextcloud for file/folder cloud storage. Thanks again!
