So…yeah. As I’m moving away from google, I’d like to store my contacts elsewhere. I have proton (I know, I know), but this is also not great, since their system isn’t too android-friendly. Which system (maybe self-hosted) would you suggest to easily sync/backup your contacts?
Thanks!
fossify contacts lets you import and export your contacts at anytime to and from a simple file
I’ve been using EteSync to sync my contacts and calendars for many years now. It’s end-to-end encrypted and works well.
It’s not too hard to self-host too.
How…do you self-host both the server AND the web client? Do you need two different addresses? Can it be done on the same server/container? I understand I can just run the the server, which has this tiny little add-user and permissions page, but I’d like to also be able to handle the contacts and calendar from the Web UI from a computer whenever needed. Of course I know I can plug any app to the server directly, but I’d like the web UI, too…Do you know how to do this? I’ve spent a couple of hours searching without much luck.
I use posteo for email and use davx5 to sync contacts and calendars to their carddav and caldav servers.
You might still have to use a gmail account for this though, depending on if your email works with it.
There’s also Nextcloud which would be self hosted.
And the extremely low tech solution of just having them offline in a foss contacts app and exporting backups from that app to your storage in case you lose them.
I export my contacts as a file and copy it to my pc, an external HDD and several cloud providers. Anything I store in the cloud is encrypted with Rclone first. There is a nice client available for Android. I don’t pay for cloud storage so I only use the free tiers.
I guess this is only practical if you rarely make changes to your contacts.
Sync to a CalDAV/CardDAV server instead of to Google. If you’re up for self-hosting, Radicale is a good and simple one.
I use DAVx⁵ on Android and Thunderbird on the desktop. Other sync clients are listed here: https://radicale.org/v3.html#supported-clients
Thanks! I was trying a first run attempt, but I got stuck setting up python. Seems these setup instructions don’t quite work anymore due to python’s virtual environment, pipx is suggested now. Alternatively I saw the option to just install a dated version, but it was quite a bunch of releases behind. I gave up and had a bit more success with Etesync server. Although I’m trying now to figure how the hell am I to setup both the server and the web client on the same running environment…I’d like to host the web client too, so I can edit calendar entries from the web UI.
I got Nextcloud on Hetzner. Technically, Hetzner can see the contacts stored on their servers, but I trust them enough, and everything is open source.
You can also self-host Nextcloud.
Same. Hetzner has a solid business in hosting, they don’t make their money from mining my data. They’d hand it over for a lawful request, but the data is not -that- secret and thus possible false accusations aren’t really an issue.
I’ve barely hosted anything and those must have leaked like a sieve. Trusting Hetzner way more.
Export them as a VCF file and put them on a flash drive.
Proton will deliver it any day now that Andy sucked Trump off
