I have used a standard racking cane and siphon. I use the hollow barrel of a ink pen to help me get it started. I sanitize the ink-pen barrel in diluted star san, insert it in the end of the hose, then insert the racking cane into the sanitizer and suck until I get it started.
I get a bit of the dilute star san in my mouth, pull the barrel of the pen away and spit the star san into the sink. Re-sanitize the barrel of the pen, put the sanitized racking cane into the beer, reinsert the barrel of the pen into the beer, suck again until I get a mouthful of "liquid gold", and let the beer flow into the bottling bucket. My mouth never touches the end of the hose. I've never had an infection this way.
I also have measured the distance from the rim of the fermenter to near the bottom of the fermenter that is just above where the sediment is and marked that distance by wrapping a rubber band around the racking cane. I then insert the racking cane into the bottling bucket down to the rubber band, and clamp it there using a sanitized clamp. That then holds the racking cane at the proper height to leave the traub behind.
I've tried auto siphons but spilled more beer with them than with the manual siphon.