My plan is to switch to Hetzner Storage share(WebDav) - which is a NextCloud instance - for keeping backups of my photos, videos and personal documents from various devices running on Windows and Android phone. My queries are:-
What are the preferred apps or setups required to backup my files from Windows 11 on my laptop?
What are the preferred apps and setups to backup photos, videos and documents from my Android phone?
I may delete photos/files later from my devices to save space, but it should remain in NextCloud.
I also want to keep local backup of all my NextCloud data on a dedicated 1.5 TB local hard drive connected to an Android TV Box as a copy (Realtime/Scheduled). What should be the setup? Can this be done with multiple users? (eg. My wife also plan to use NextCloud as an additional user in Hetzner Storage share )
First of all, you need to understand that Nextcloud is not a backup and should not be confused with it. Nextcloud is a software for collaborative work. Nextcloud makes it possible to have files available in the cloud or on local clients through synchronisation. In the event of synchronisation errors, for example, data may be lost both in the cloud and on clients. It is therefore necessary to back up the data additionally. Either the Nextcloud can be backed up in the cloud or the clients can be backed up locally e.g. on local external hdds/sdds or NAS.
In addition to Hetzner Storage Share (Nextcloud), Hetzner also offers the Hetzner Storage Box. This can be accessed with sftp, for example. Proper backups can be made via sftp (real rsync). But of course this solution does not offer Nextcloud functions.
Please think about what you really need. Maybe you shouldn’t move all your data to your Nextcloud. Perhaps only the data that you really want to have accessible everywhere or that you want to share with other people. The rest might be better stored locally on external hdds/sdds, your NAS or a data storage in the cloud.