Sync Mobile Backup To Linux Via Webgui

[ph4wks]

Hello,

 

How do I add a folder from another device via the linux webgui?  

 

I need to be able to do this to backup my phone.

 

Thanks.

[goli]

Hey there.

 

What about the "add folder" button?

 

As far as I know, mobile devices cannot "initialize" shares but only participate. So you need to create the folder on your non-mobile node (using the "add folder" button in the Web GUI) and connect this share to the mobile node afterwards.

 

That obviously doesn't give you a full backup of you rmobile device unless you use the root folder on your mobile. But that's not a good idea, because btsync could try synchronizing e.g. "/dev", which isn't a really good idea. So I would suggest to only add a data folder, and use different shares if you want to synchronize different data folders from your mobil.

 

If you want to really have a full backup tool: Use something that does that on your mobile device (e.g. "nandroid" for android things) and add the nandroid target folder to btsync. Then every time you do a nandroid backup, the backup files are synchronized.

 

Regards,

Stephan.