Comment on Nextcloud vs Syncthing for PKM notes?

• 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.

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  • 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

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  • Moshpirit@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Why do you think that Nextcloud is not a good backup solution?

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    • 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”.

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    • 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.

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    • 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

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