Sure but every tree you plant takes up space and there is a limit how much you can do this. Unless you then farm them and store th carbon long term somehow

Well I think she amount of caution is still appropriate no matter how much you manage to secure the local machine

Yes that sounds like pull backups, which is worth exploring

That’s an interesting idea

Yep offline backups are useful, although it does require remembering & making the effort to do it each time

Certainly sounds relevant, although overall it is quite a different approach than in currently using

For doing snapshots did that means the local system identifies the changes? Or it all gets copied each time?

Yes that seems like one way to go. Although I am using rsync so maybe keeping the files in place and changing owner could be an option

That’s some good suggestions and a few things I hadn’t considered. A VPN is also possible, although setting up the port forwarding might be a bit more complicated

It’s for a home network, I managed to get it working using port forwarding through SSH thanks to suggestions. I’m not sure what the difference is with using the pi as an entry/exit node, that is what I was trying to do with the SSH forwarding. VPN is also possible but it it would also need to be set up to go through the pi

That worked thanks, I didn’t know you could put an address like that in the -L command, and the -N is correct here too

Ok there is a TV and a pi on network 1 and a server on network 2, the pi can connect to the server through SSH or VPN or whatever is needed. The TV would like to connect to the server, however it can’t run a VPN or anything like that so exposing the server would be a risk.

The SSH command on the pi is SSH -L 1234:localhost1234 remote_server

The ufw command was run on the pi, with the intention to allow the TV to access the forwarded port on the pi

Do you need to remember to open it regularly? Or is it sending you notifications? You mention that you open it and then it does a sync, how often do you need to do this?

Do you need to interact with it regularly for it to work in the background?

The more I have to deal with them the less interesting they become… they work best for people who want to just do what apple tell them

Interesting, is that through a particular app, or from cable-based syncing?

… Interesting idea. But immich doesn’t work as a drop in, the default images collection includes a lot of rubbish so for it to be useful you have to manually tag photos to include with immich

It’s kind of necessary for family members who still need it to be backing up and may take a bit of time to get used to using it. If it’s not backing up pics then it won’t be useful when they do open it

Yep the unreliable background tasks are a major hurdle here

Yes thanks. Immich would be fine as well based on the description of what these apps do, but the problem seems to be having it run in background.

All these solutions need regular manual intervention, while a backup system needs to be automatic and reliable. From an iPhone the only backup option I can see is through their cloud unfortunately (or potentially through regularly plugging into a cable)