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Backup/Server Options - is Syncthing / Nextcloud really the go? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 3 days ago by oneser@lemmy.zip to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Unfortunately, as Lemmy doesn't appear to have an indexed search function I am not sure if this is a common question or not. Please point me to the necessary thread/s if this is answered elsewhere.

I'm looking to continue the ball rolling on my home server. Jellyfin setup was a nice dive back into networking, which I haven't done for quite some time and the logical next step is to get all the data we want to retain into a single hub.

Most searches seem to point to syncthing with nextcloud, but before I get started, I want to check I am really going in the right direction.

I would like to primarily remove the space burden from my devices and dump them all onto a few drives and a cloud backup (in case of physical loss of drives). I believe syncthing can do this, but some appear to say that it is not an effective archive tool.

I would like to be able to retrieve this data without much hassle for e.g. photo editing, and place the finished file back on the server. Preferably the local copy would be removed again, to reduce the need for extra space on each device. I would like to run this over nextcloud, but might be misunderstanding the software a bit.

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[–] KaninchenSpeed@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I haven't tried syncthing yet, but might be able to combine it with some of these ideas.

I'm currently doing phone backups to a samba smb server with an app called smbsync2 from fdroid. It can copy or move files and directories from and to a smb share on a schedule. An option for desktop would be rsync.

To get the archiving functionality you can do automatic ZFS snapshots. You can restore the entire snapshot or mount it via the terminal, or samba apparenly has a feature to display files from snapshots as shadow copies on windows.

There is one limitation of this is, if a client deletes a file on the local storage, the file on the server doesn't get deleted automaticly.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

One advantage of Syncthing over smbsync is it can use any network connection, not just LAN.

You can configure to only use LAN, or even specific LANs if needed (identified by SSID). I have a few sync jobs that work this way.

Off to test smbsync now - thanks for the recommendation!

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

I second smbsync2 for phone backup. It's very customizable and once setup, just works.

I also use syncthing but only for syncing files I want to be the same on all devices. FreeTube watch history and subscriptions, stuff like that.