I recently noticed that my nextcloud instance was missing photos. I have the android app set to automatically upload my photos. When I need to clear up space on my phone, I make a separate backup (because I’m a paranoid SOB and hard drives are relatively cheap). I noticed that nextcloud auto upload missed about 10% of the photos. I’m not going to bash the nextcloud devs, as I recognize that I am using a free product and am owed nothing, but I’m making this post so others are aware of this risk. Apparently I’m not alone https://help.nextcloud.com/t/android-client-does-not-auto-upload-all-images/216849/14
Can’t wait for proper Linux phones to be more viable so that we have more control over shit like this.
Honest question: what would you do if there was a proper Linux phone to not have this problem? Fork and maintain your own nextcloud client?
There are so maby different solutions for this on Linux. Syncing folders and backups in general is an old problem with many, many approaches
Use Nextcloud’s desktop client? Or the cli client with cron/systemd timers. Or any old webdav client.
Use the desktop client on a phone?
Yes, that’s the whole point of Linux on a phone. The ability to easily use existing software. The app already has small screens so using it on a phone should be possible without any trouble.