Nextcloud and keepass - managing database sync

📱 Desktop & mobile clients 💻 Desktop
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I figured it was more related to desktop client than anything else.

For those that use keepass and nextcloud, and ideally have a number of places where the DB is used…what is your workflow?

I used to have keepass on windows connected via webdav connection and would use sync with webdav to keep those two machines in sync. The only thing I didn’t like, was if for some reason nextcloud was down then I’d have no password database.

So I then switched to opening the database file downloaded via the nextcloud desktop client. But I find if I make a change on one copy and use the keepass synchronise function to the file, I seem to get conflicts one of the clients.

I also have keepassium on ios, but I tend to keep a DB that’s a number of version behind, and update as needed.

Does anyone have a good workflow that a, allows for the DB to be opened if my nextcloud server is down, and b, doesn’t get conflicts

I guess I could go for a webdav connection for 97% of the time where everything is fine, and on the 3% where my host has decided to be a pain, open the desktop sync’d version.

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I’m running two machines against different copies of the Keepass file and occasionally synchronize them without issues for some time…

I add additional safety using Keepass DB backup plugin and configure it to backup the DB to a sub-directory each time it is saved… My Keepass DB is really little so it doesn’t hurt to keep lot of copies…

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You use the nextcloud desktop client to get it back to nextcloud rather than webdav?

I think I’ve gone back to my later idea, webdav as connection with the two main windows machines. With a backup via Desktop sync (in case I need an offline copy).