I have usb 2.0 though, so it’s gonna be slow ~no matter what😭. I get ~15MB/s on average and it can reach ~40MB/s with wifi hotspot, while usb goes at about ~6MB/s on average and can reach about 30MB/s.
The issue are the small files. Wifi handles them much quicker. Especially listing folders with thousands of files. Opening my camera directory (~8.500 files) with wifi takes about 5seconds, while with usb it takes about ~1-2minutes…
About nas, I would too like to have one and automatically backup everything there. I might build one some time.
I’m transfering data from my phone to an extrernal hard drive which I connect to my laptop. To do the syncing a bit more automated, I’ve written some WinSCP scripts. I create a local hostpot with my phone, I connect my pc to it and then I move files. (My phone has a dual wifi antenna which allows to have both the hotspot on and connect to my wifi, so I can post this comment without using data.)
The data I transfer are ~all sorts of types; Media files (either from my camera folder or various other folders), text or similar files (I also keep logs of the files on my device to help me restore stuff), encrypted files, backups of apps+data/phone settings/contacts/sms/calls etc. At the moment of writing this I’m transfering about 30-40gb to my pc as I slowly prepare myself for the factory reset.
My workflow is far from automated, but I’ve made a lot of progress since last year with the help of the scripts.
It’s sad though, because backing up and restoring everything now takes about 9hours, while with an sd card I could reduce it to something like half an hour… My next phone will probably be fairphone 6 or 7 in 2028 (now I have a xiaomi mi 10 running custom roms) if it has an sd card slot.
I have about 25gb free out of the 1tb my laptop has, sooo not a good idea, plus it adds complexity. Well, I’ll just improve my scripts and try to keep things tidied up so that it becomes easier. (Lol, now I’m post factory reset and I’ve started importing stuff back to the phone. Till tommorow noon everything may be set up.) Tnx for your interest!
As a side note, I’ve realized that transfering files from the phone to the laptop (instead straight to the external hard drive) makes the process a lot faster, compared to moving them to the drive directly, but still, I prefer the wireless transfer as I can sync folders easier and it’s faster.
USB Ethernet dongles
That’s how I do it, though I put it on my NAS first for safe keeping.
I have usb 2.0 though, so it’s gonna be slow ~no matter what😭. I get ~15MB/s on average and it can reach ~40MB/s with wifi hotspot, while usb goes at about ~6MB/s on average and can reach about 30MB/s.
The issue are the small files. Wifi handles them much quicker. Especially listing folders with thousands of files. Opening my camera directory (~8.500 files) with wifi takes about 5seconds, while with usb it takes about ~1-2minutes…
About nas, I would too like to have one and automatically backup everything there. I might build one some time.
What are you transferring to/from?
I’m transfering data from my phone to an extrernal hard drive which I connect to my laptop. To do the syncing a bit more automated, I’ve written some WinSCP scripts. I create a local hostpot with my phone, I connect my pc to it and then I move files. (My phone has a dual wifi antenna which allows to have both the hotspot on and connect to my wifi, so I can post this comment without using data.)
The data I transfer are ~all sorts of types; Media files (either from my camera folder or various other folders), text or similar files (I also keep logs of the files on my device to help me restore stuff), encrypted files, backups of apps+data/phone settings/contacts/sms/calls etc. At the moment of writing this I’m transfering about 30-40gb to my pc as I slowly prepare myself for the factory reset.
My workflow is far from automated, but I’ve made a lot of progress since last year with the help of the scripts. It’s sad though, because backing up and restoring everything now takes about 9hours, while with an sd card I could reduce it to something like half an hour… My next phone will probably be fairphone 6 or 7 in 2028 (now I have a xiaomi mi 10 running custom roms) if it has an sd card slot.
Got it - yeah the big hit is USB functionality for the external definitely.
Do you have sufficient laptop storage to make it temporary? Maybe even in batches?
I have about 25gb free out of the 1tb my laptop has, sooo not a good idea, plus it adds complexity. Well, I’ll just improve my scripts and try to keep things tidied up so that it becomes easier. (Lol, now I’m post factory reset and I’ve started importing stuff back to the phone. Till tommorow noon everything may be set up.) Tnx for your interest!
As a side note, I’ve realized that transfering files from the phone to the laptop (instead straight to the external hard drive) makes the process a lot faster, compared to moving them to the drive directly, but still, I prefer the wireless transfer as I can sync folders easier and it’s faster.