Yeah, if you had the storage I’d say use an Ethernet dongle on the phone, wire up Ethernet on the laptop (as long as it’s not a USB 2 dongle that you’d need :) ), transfer over network that way and give yourself some easier transport than wifi…
But in your case, yeah wifi is the right call.
My workflow for reference, I’ve got a dock that supports 3.2gen2, so I connect my phone up there. I’ve got 1 gig on the dock, and I copy over to my NAS (4x1gbit in LAG), and with the dock having USB for mice/keyboard use it’s easy peasy. Once backed up, new phone to the dock, and go the other way.
Most files are already backed up though, with the NAS and my self hosted services, so it’s mostly a single instances backup and not much to copy back.
Yeah, if you had the storage I’d say use an Ethernet dongle on the phone, wire up Ethernet on the laptop (as long as it’s not a USB 2 dongle that you’d need :) ), transfer over network that way and give yourself some easier transport than wifi…
But in your case, yeah wifi is the right call.
My workflow for reference, I’ve got a dock that supports 3.2gen2, so I connect my phone up there. I’ve got 1 gig on the dock, and I copy over to my NAS (4x1gbit in LAG), and with the dock having USB for mice/keyboard use it’s easy peasy. Once backed up, new phone to the dock, and go the other way.
Most files are already backed up though, with the NAS and my self hosted services, so it’s mostly a single instances backup and not much to copy back.