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Signal announces a backup feature that includes 100MB of storage for texts and the last 45 days' worth of media for free, or 100GB of storage for $1.99/month (signal.org)
submitted 1 day ago by Pro@programming.dev to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/37112962

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[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm already daily-syncing to my own homelab, but this is nice. They eventually had to have a way to make money.

[–] filcuk@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Can you say how? If you could just name drop whatever services you're using, that would be appreciated

E: I'm stupid. Forgot there are file backups, I already have that set up.

[–] wurstgulasch3000@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I use my self hosted matrix server and the signal bridge, that way I don't have to do file backups. I found this to be more reliable and I also have the whatsapp bridge on there for people that I could not convince yet to use signal or matrix. Then I do daily dumps of the matrix postgres db and sync them to my backup space (encrypted of course)

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use my self hosted matrix server and the signal bridge, that way I don’t have to do file backups.

Same here. And the real benefit... One place to aggregate all my chats. Discord, slack, telegram, twitter, linkedin, etc... Just download on app on my phone and connect to my matrix server.

But my backup is just LXC containers on proxmox backing up to a PBS instance. Literally 2 button restore to any snapshot from the past year (2 backups a day, morning and evening)

[–] toothpaste_sand@lemy.nl 1 points 20 hours ago

Oh wow that sounds very convenient! I'll look into that... one day. Maybe. But I'd like to!

[–] Linearity@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How do you do that?

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago

file backups? settings > chats > backups, and sync it to your computer with syncthing. just set up versioning in syncthing at the receiver side, so that you don't loose it if there's some weird issue. a week or so of versions is probably enough