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Cake day: February 10th, 2024

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  • I might have a misconception of what back up is.

    Right before writing this, I used an ipad to take a picture of one of my cats. That ipad has the filen, nextcloud, and sync apps. I added the same photo to a test folder on each of the services I just mentioned. I can see the picture in the test folder of each service on my desktop.

    Those are all free accounts, yes. I am not a paying customer yet. If that is not a backup, I don’t know what to call it.


  • Do you need nextcloud?

    I am looking for an alternative to proton drive. It does not seem like the Linux app is happening anytime soon, and I want to be able to have a backup of the pictures I duplicate and edit without having to download the file and upload it after the changes I make.

    • filen.io does that, but the servers are on the other side of the Atlantic.

    • sync.com does not have a Linux app either.

    • google drive and mega allow that, but I do not use those services.



  • Thank you for your reply.

    Which Model exactly? 3B+? 4?

    The one I have is an RPi4

    How much RAM?

    It is the 1Gb model. It was purchased at the beginning of the pandemic (April 2020) and all I needed from the RPi4 was to be able to run gphoto2.

    a small number of users (1-3) works for most applications.

    I would be the only user, on a desktop, a laptop and an iphone.

    You might need to use a USB Hub with external Power supply if the HDD uses to much power for the pi USB ports.

    This might be the downside of the project. An array of cables connecting the RPi to the external drive, the powerbank and the display plus the USB dongle for the mouse/keyboard seem too much. The intervalometer had that same problem.

    I would recommend to take a look at Immich

    The Requirements page asks for a minimum of 4GB, while recommending 6GB. There might be a problem there :(

    It looks like the alternative is a Canadian storage provider, using NextCloud on the desktop under Fedora. All this because Proton does not have a Linux app.