# Central Data-Hub and degoogling my life **URL:** \ **Category:** 📱 Desktop & mobile clients\ **Tags:** android\ **Created:** [July 10, 2024, 8:56am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/central-data-hub-and-degoogling-my-life/197722 "2024-07-10T08:56:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![pete.dawgg](https://help.nextcloud.com/user_avatar/help.nextcloud.com/pete.dawgg/32/6573_2.png) [@pete.dawgg](https://help.nextcloud.com/u/pete.dawgg)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2024, 10:27am UTC](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/central-data-hub-and-degoogling-my-life/197722/7 "2024-07-12T10:27:42Z")
It’s probably most important to make the complete switch to a “Free” OS (\*Linux, \*BSD, …) first. You could then run a small homeserver that fulfills everything you need. I think for this kind of homeuse Nextcloud is suboptimal because the fileops are done with WebDAV; server-based homedirs with NFS are much faster and more flexible. Another easy way to sync/backup everything on your home-PC(s) is to run regular (eg on startup/shutdown) syncs/backups to this homeserver on them. you’ll be amazed how fast and easy this is in a linux-environment. disk-redundancy does not protect you from accidental (ie human error) data loss, but you could use a variety of fs-snapshots. for the personal data on your phone nextcloud is just perfect (i cut ALL contacts to google et al in the days when nextcloud was still owncloud (9, i think)). It works best with a “real” internet-server but can be made to work with a dyndns-home-solution. the nextcloud-datadir (and everything else) must also be backed up, of course, which can be easily done from your linux homeserver (ssh pull etc.) GOOD LUCK! --- _[View the full topic](https://help.nextcloud.com/t/central-data-hub-and-degoogling-my-life/197722)._