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Nextcloud vs Syncthing for PKM notes? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'd like to sync my markdown notes between devices (laptop and phone), which service is better: Nextcloud or Syncthing? Any other important idea I should know?, like latency times, or maximum number of synced devices, what if I edit the same note from both places without internet and then both get connected to a network... For example, I know Nextcloud let me have a history of the notes.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

Syncthing has been much more reliable for me. It syncs extremely fast, picks up changes nearly instantly, and just works so well I never really even think about it.

Nextcloud has caused outright data loss once for me (all of my data was corrupted by nextcloud and then synced to my devices, had to completely recover from a backup), 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Thanks, I'll give a try! I was thinking maybe I could use both: syncthing for devices and nexcloud to have a backup

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Nextcloud isn't a backup solution, so I wouldn't go that route.

For backups look at Restic, Kopia, or Borg. They work great and are very lightweight.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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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