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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Interesting, how do you use syncthing with molly?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Well, if you didn't know, Molly is a soft fork of the Signal Android client.

But, I think both support making local backups of your chats.
I do so daily and keep two copies. These get synced in real time to my little NAS and/or my PC/Laptop

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks, I do use Molly but never occured to me to use Syncthing to make a local backup copy. Great idea.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Glad to be of help! I personally really like Syncthing, since it makes implementing a resilient decentralised backup strategy quite easy.

Though I would recommend you go with "Syncthing-Fork", as iirc the "vanilla" app was put into maintenance mode or smth like that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

And another good tip - thank you!