Comment on Nextcloud vs Syncthing for PKM notes?
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Syncthing has been much more reliable for me.
Nextcloud has caused outright data loss once for me, and broken due to updates several other times. It’s overall very slow, and a pain to maintain through updates.
what if I edit the same note from both places without internet and then both get connected to a network…
Syncthing will handle duplicates by renaming the older copy, and also has modes for versioning and deleted file recovery that you can enable and customized how you want to.
Moshpirit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thanks, I’ll give a try! I was thinking maybe I could use both: syncthing for devices and nexcloud to have a backup
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Nextcloud isn’t a backup solution, so I wouldn’t go that route.
For backups look at Restic, Kopia, or Borg.
density@kbin.social 11 months ago
borg is fab; i don't think there is a mobile component tho?
restic iirc is complicated and more advanced
don't forget rsync which is sync but is the basis of various back up tools
Moshpirit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why do you think that Nextcloud is not a good backup solution?
atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Backups means you have history snapshotted in time.
Nextcloud does have done simple file versioning and a “trash” for deleted files, so you could get some simple protection from mistaken deleted files. But it’s more “best effort” than “designed for backups”.
MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Because it’s a file sync program, not backup. There’s a huge difference between the two.
Backups are a snapshot of your files at a specific point in time, generally backups will be done incrementally and then compressed and deduplicated, so multiple versions of a file don’t take up massive amounts of space.
Plus, Nextcloud has had at least one bug in the past that corrupted all the files stored in it, so if you didn’t have a real actual backup in place you were completely screwed because all the versions were corrupted too.
Contend6248@feddit.de 11 months ago
I had some files which rot away over the years, who knows which update borked them, i use it as a cache for real backups for important files