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What could be reasons for my rsync, which is syncing two remote servers through ssh, to slow down over time like this? It keeps happening. How to check what is the bottleneck?
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Been using Phonetrack for years and never had that problem… Better see if you cab find answers on the github page yes.


Nextcloud on VM or Docker? Best set-up for proper backups?
Hi all, sorry if this has been asked/discussed before (I couldn't find any directly overlapping posts): I have been running the Nextcloud snap now for quite some time, and although things have run quite smoothly, I never really managed to properly back things up. I make weekly backups of the database, config and data, but it's very hard and time consuming to glue these elements back together. And as they say: when you can't check whether a backup works, it's not really a backup. I have been experimenting with KVM/qemu lately and things look pretty great. The idea of simply backing up the entire OS that runs Nextcloud (a backup that you can easily deploy/run somewhere else to test if it's working) sounds very attractive. Reading around, however, tells me that some of you recommend running the Nextcloud docker (instead of a VM). My questions: 1. What would be the advantage of running Nextcloud as a docker, instead of within a VM? 2. What would be a sensible way to have an incremental/differential backup of the VM/Docker? 3. The storage usage of my Nextcloud instance exceeds 1TB. If I run it within a VM, I will have to connect it to a 2TB SSD. Does it make sense to add the external storage space to the VM? How does that affect the ease of backing the full VM up? Or (as I have read here and there) should I simply put the entire VM on the external SSD?
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I have a weekly crontab that does…

  • nextcloud.export -abc (everything except the data)
  • …a backintime snapshot of the raw data folder.


I’m not fully happy with this yet though.

  • The nextcloud.export -abc command makes a full export of the config, database and apps. So in contrast to backintime, which rebuilds each snapshot only in terms of the files that changed since the previous snapshot, I have a full-blown new backup of config, database and apps every week.
  • I put the nextcloud instance in maintenance mode while running both commands, so the config, database and apps should fit the snapshot of the raw data. But it still feels tricky. I would prefer to have just have one full “file-change-based” weekly (or daily?) snapshot of e.g. a VM. That’s why I’m looking at this: https://docs.hanssonit.se/s/W6fMouPiqQz3_Mog/virtual-machines-vm/d/W6fMquPiqQz3_Moi/nextcloud-vm

I almost don’t dare to say this, but I’ve been running the snap for more than a year and have no complaints.


I use /e/OS. Great experience.

Only apps that don’t work are the ones from these e-scooter rentals like Felyx (they require Google Play Services for some reason). But in my town its better to cycle anyway ;)





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