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[Request] Automatic backups when PC comes online
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I see syncthing being recommended, and like, it's fine.
But keep in mind it's NOT a backup tool, it's a syncing tool.
If something happens to the data on your client, for example, it will happily sync and overwrite your Linux box's copy with junk, or if you delete something, it'll vanish in both places.
It's not a replacement for recoverable-in-a-disaster backups, and you should make sure you've got a copy somewhere that isn't subject to the client nuking it if something goes wrong.
This is very important distinction to be made. Sync is not a backup.
However, you can get 90% there with Syncthing when you enable file versioning or at least trash can for the files.
Thanks for the heads up, yea I'm well aware of that, I use it to, well... sync, my phone pictures with my PC.
You could use SyncThing and then run a backup on synched folder on the server