This article is the final part of a 3-part series on automating a backup for Nextcloud. If you arrived straight here, please make sure to visit the previous articles in the series as I won’t be repeating the general process, but building upon the previous posts.

This article is the second part of a 3-part series on backups for Nextcloud. If you arrived straight here, please make sure to visit the first article in the series as I won’t be repeating the general process, but building upon the previous post.

At this point we all have a good understanding of what a computer virus is (or at least what it can do to your computer). Fortunately for us, there’s a great open source tool called ClamAV which integrates well with Nextcloud. This allows for both background scanning of files, and scanning of all new uploads. The official documentation actually does a pretty good job of covering this topic, but I had a few snags installing ClamAV for Nextcloud and wanted to share them here.

The announcement of Google limiting their Photos storage, along with mounting concerns about privacy and invasive advertising, are leading many like myself away from big tech. While it’s “easy” to switch from Google to Amazon, or others, their ethics and honesty are quickly changing the way people use the “cloud”. I made the switch to self-hosting my applications for a variety of reasons and wanted to share my experience with a Google Photos replacement.

I have just finished a series of articles for the Smart Home Beginner website about setting up Wireguard tunnels. Two of the guides focused on setting up Wireguard as both a “server” and a “client” in Windows if you follow that model. This article is part of a short “Intermediate” level series intended to be a follow up to those articles. I hope to provide some guidance on intermediate topics and configurations. As I learn more, I will add additional articles.

One of the highlights from the Nextcloud 21 release in February, 2021 was the compatibility with, and performance bump of PHP 8.0. Unfortunately, the official Nextcloud image is still using PHP 7.4. WTF?

You may have never heard it, or you may have heard it echoed 10,000 times in an online forum: Syncing solutions are not a backup solution! Nextcloud is a fantastic tool to keep your files and folders in-sync across multiple platforms, but that doesn’t mean it is “backing-up” or saving your data from catastrophic failure. It does, admittedly, have some features built-in to help mitigate accidental deletions: Trashbin and File Versioning.

When installing a fresh instance of Nextcloud, it is important to correctly set your cron option in the Administrator settings or suffer a seriously hamstrung installation. Without a properly running cron job, Nextcloud won’t be running efficiently and will feel more and more sluggish over time. This is a quick guide on setting up cron. I am writing this from the standpoint of Debian/Ubuntu but it could easily be substituted for another OS.