You VPN may have an option under settings called Split-Tunneling - Most well-established VPN providers will have this. This allows you to set the local subnet for your network, and it'll bypass the VPNs so that local connections are local. Check it out. Otherwise, what you propose works, yes, as long as you're okay with having that laptop as a single point of failure for your content. At least get an external drive and periodically backup to it as well, and have that drive elsewhere. Good enough starting point.
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2025
8 points (90.0% liked)
DeGoogle Yourself
9289 readers
13 users here now
A community for those that would like to get away from Google.
Here you may post anything related to DeGoogling, why we should do it or good software alternatives!
Rules
-
Be respectful even in disagreement
-
No advertising unless it is very relevent and justified. Do not do this excessively.
-
No low value posts / memes. We or you need to learn, or discuss something.
Related communities
!privacyguides@lemmy.one !privacy@lemmy.ml !privatelife@lemmy.ml !linuxphones@lemmy.ml !fossdroid@social.fossware.space !fdroid@lemmy.ml
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
Thanks!
Yes! split-tunneling was the term I was looking for.
Good-enough is exactly what I'm going for, lol. I will get an SSD for backup.
Sure this works. But it isn't a useful backup strategy to just put them down from phone to another device. Who guarantee the laptop doesn't got lost, destroyed or stolen?
It's just a way to get some space on your phone. And immich could do more than this. I would recommend syncthing for your usecase.
-
does synchthing have the same VPN issue? I was separately planning to do synchthing to backup my RSS lists, podcast subs, and some other smaller things.
-
I wasn't considering this as part of my backup strategy. I hadn't gotten that far yet, but one of the tutorials I was looking at mentioned backup strategy as the next step. I'd love to hear your recommendations on this. Backups is obviously the big thing I'm loosing moving off of photos.
3-2-1, I never lost a picture in the last decade because I use a cloud storage out of my home as the last resort. Since immich runs on docker. I simply have a cronjob running every night backup the docker volumes to cloud and local backup.
My storage isn't that big. Actually immich has 300GB. This is easy to manage. Some people definitely have more and need more space.
I really had a data loss 5 years ago. The cloud provider burnt down, even their backups. But this wasn't a problem because of my local backup (which I thought would be the first I lost).
PS. Idk what do you mean with VPN issue. I wouldn't connect to syncthing outside of my home. Is there a need for it?
VPN issue -- my phone runs VPN regardless of whether I am at home or not, so I would still need to be able to route synchthing outside of the VPN traffic to be recognized as being at home?
I don't need much space for pictures. I'm at 30 GB I believe. But outside of pictures I could also backup other data and maybe get to around 100 gb.
I'm going to guess that cronjobs allow you to schedule batch scripts to run at certain times of the day. So, as an example, you could rsync copy your library to another location in an automated way.
I'm willing to accept some risk of loss to get off Google, but would like to minimize the risk within my means (not much means). I'm not concerned about theft, nor fire. If I want to avoid hardware failure, I need to purchase an external storage space and back the data up there. I think with the quantity of data I have, I could spend $80-$100 USD for a SSD, and be well covered space wise.
Thoughts? And let me know if I interpreted anything you said wrong. I do computer stuff, but have always had to trust others for this part of things.