Backup to SD card when phone is half full, or empty

Bug Reports
#1

REPRODUCIBILITY: Always
OS VERSION: 4.6.0.15
HARDWARE: Sony Xperia 10iv
UI LANGUAGE: English
REGRESSION: Probably not

DESCRIPTION:

Got all my media organized on the new phone so well, I plopped in a brand-new half-tera SD card to do backups.

Without any advance warning, the backup failed: No space left on device.

It would be super nice if there was at least an estimation phase that could warn that it’s likely to fail.

PRECONDITIONS:

Have way too many big eg. video files.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

  1. Have files
  2. Attempt backup
  3. Fail
  4. rsync home to SD and/or another host

EXPECTED RESULT:

Successful backup.

ACTUAL RESULT:

Can’t remember exactly how it was worded, I checked the log for this.

MODIFICATIONS:

None.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

No one asked for this opinion, but wasn’t there a selector for what to back up some 10 years ago? It would be convenient to deselect Gallery for example, though that’s the opposite of what I needed.

My work phone doesn’t have much media, but it gets dumped twice to sd and once to nextcloud. because of MyBackup.

#2

Does it work to backup your video files to SD card using File Browser?

#3

Unsure what you mean, sorry :frowning:

I have never noticed backup functionality there.

The swipe that gives me the shortcuts has sometimes shown an empty page, but it’s not something I’ve seen often enough to file a bug report about, and might not even be current anymore. That’s the only place I would imagine has that.

Copying manually when I have videos from the Jolla 1 days on my phone is too painful, even with the excellent File Browser.

Here’s how I deal with it:

I installed the Fish shell, and tmux, and made tmux switch shells to fish.

Then a form of this rsync -avz . /run/media/ defaultuser/UUID/backup/ --progress --info=progress2

I’ve been less than great with periodic rsync baclups to my NAS, not least because I don’t want to pay for the electricity of having it always on, but with this new SD card I could set up a cron job. And try to be more regular with the NAS :wink: