I’m currently running kubuntu 23.10 and have been distro hopping a lot lately. I’m going to continue to do so but the tedium of saving everything off is a royal pain.
Backup solutions across distro’s don’t always work, plus the overhead of backing up and restoring is almost more work than just copy/pasting most stuff.
In windows obviously, you’re damn near forced to use one drive these days, and it made me wonder if there is a similar cloud service, or self hosted service that might accomplish a similar task.
I’ve got an unraid server I can use, and there are options there it appears, but the choices are almost overwhelming.
So I thought I’d just ask all of you, what solution mimics a cloud desktop like onedrive the closest?
EDIT: To be more specific, I’m mostly just referring to dekstop contents, Documents, Downloads etc, Not config data. Bonus points if I can add folders too.
EDIT2: Thank you everyone for your awesome suggestions! I went with syncthing. I also tried Mega which crashed pretty much instantly for some reason. Syncthing seems to be exactly what I need and I can just point it at my Unraid server.
Nextcloud - slick web UI and good desktop app. Bit of work to install and maintain the server software but worth it imo.
Syncthing - barebones cross device peer to peer file sync. Simple but works great.
Most unixey option - just use rsync to do incremental backups of your homedir to your server with a crontab. Easy and simple.
Another vote for syncthing. We actually use it at work to setup DR when an app doesn’t natively support it.
I saw nextcloud, and yeah it’s setup is a lot for what I want. I haven’t seen syncthing, I’ll take a look. Thank you.
syncthing is what I use to replicate projects, notes, etc between my linux desktop, macbook, ipad and cell phone.
Everything routes into my plex server so I have one authoritative register of changes. If all you want is to tell a program “backup this folder”, can’t get much more straightforward than syncthing
I went with syncthing. Looks like there’s already a binhex docker I added to unraid, set them both up to sync to the unraid server and it’s done.
One question, for you syncthing experts? Is it pretty safe to just sync my /home/user folder? Or is it going to take all the hidden files and stuff to across distros? For now I’m just syncing a few targetted folders inside /home/user folder.