What do you do for photos, calendars and backups? That's one thing I'm worried about. Still using Google calendar and photos for now until I figure out a self hosted solution.
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I use Synology NAS and their photos and calendar apps are great. Almost everything else I use is on my docker server which syncs over NFS shares to the NAS.
You lost me at docker server. Is this for other files?
Docker is a container service. For example, my Bitcoin/lightning stack is containerized and runs on that server. I run internal tools my family uses. It runs my *arr media stack. My Pihole network adblocker. Home automation. VPN.
It's honestly ridiculous but it handles all of those various things people need accounts for centralized services all over the Internet to do.
Graphene had a built in backup option. You back it up locally.
For pictures, files, contacts, calrndar, etc. Use Nextcloud Sync client. The Sync client can auto copy or even move your media to your Nextcloud, which can then be synced down to your laptop from your Nextcloud. You can easily set up a 100/Gig Nextcloud at Cloudamo starting @ $4/month.
We did?
We do, with Seedvault. However we are working on a simpler (code) and more robust in house implementation to replace this, there will be a proper backup app for both manual and automatic backups, with support for backing up a specific app and support backing up to your home directory, a USB drive or device-to-device transfer.
Sorry. "Had" was a swypo.
If you want to stick with a mainstream cloud provider but want to secure it. Cryptomator is a great option and supports auto photo upload.
Wow that's awesome. And FOSS too? Thank you!