Nextcloud Download Backup

[Laureen Yokiel]

With Nextcloud Backup, you can find a friend or family member who has their own Nextcloud server and ask them to create a user account for you. Then, you can setup Backup to regularly store compressed, encrypted backups of your data on their Nextcloud server! If something goes wrong, you can restore your Nextcloud, or even bring back individual files and folders. Of course, it might make sense to, in exchange, create an account for them on your server to store their backups!



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What makes Nextcloud Backup different from other backup solutions? Its ease of use! If you are using a backup technology that you are comfortable with, keep using it. Nextcloud Backup is for those users who have found it difficult and time consuming to setup another backup solution.


Note: the Backup app requires quite some free storage. When a full backup is made, a complete copy of Nextcloud and its data is made, after which this gets compressed and encrypted and stored on the designated backup system.


Right now, the backup app is in beta and only available for Nextcloud 23. A final release is planned to coincide with the Nextcloud release later this year. You can get involved with testing! Find the app in github. A direct download of the beta tarball is here. You can extract that in your apps folder in Nextcloud 23 beta 2 install and (after setting the correct user ownership!) the app will show up in the list of not enabled apps in your instance. Turn it on and try it out! You can leave feedback in the forums below or in the Github repo.. The app should also appear in the app store for Nextcloud 23 in the next few hours.






The second step is to compress the backup (optional), encrypt the backup (optional), and copy the backup to an external source if desired. This is done in the background and will not require your Nextcloud to be in maintenance mode.


CRITICAL!!!

YOU MUST EXPORT THE CONFIGURATION FILE ASAP. Without it your backups will be useless. While the configuration file is technically encrypted, I DO NOT recommend storing it in the same location as your backups. Use a USB key or something small you can secure in a safe or otherwise.


As you can probably tell by now, following this method, you will end up with backups far out-sizing Nextcloud itself. Fortunately, the sections as the bottom of the settings page allow us to alleviate some pressure on our storage space.


Once the above has been set, the backups should be occurring automatically during the schedule set. However, if you want to trigger a full backup sooner than scheduled, you have two ways to accomplish that.


From the Backup settings page, scroll down and click the Create full restore point button. After which, you will see a notification that the request has been made and the backup will start soon.


Keep in mind that this will restore EVERYTHING from the point in time the backup was made. This means whatever version of Nextcloud you are on is unimportant, as the backup will also restore your Nextcloud files, database, configuration, data, EVERYTHING as it was at that point in time. Any files created or changed since then will be deleted!!


At this point you should have a fully restored Nextcloud instance. There are a few more details you might want to look into (like re-scanning your backups to add any that were made between the original state and the restore you just made).


If you even glanced at my home page or anything related to Nextcloud, you can see that I have spent quite a lot of time working out how to effectively create a good backup solution. I love the idea of having an App integrated into Nextcloud that takes care of this for you. In fact, I believe it should be part of the Installation process!


Another major question I have is why they are trying to reinvent the backup wheel? There are incredible open source backup solutions available which would integrate very well into the way Nextcloud works. Their backup methods, encryption, and functionality are well-tested and have great longevity.


So yes, you can put the keys in plain text along with the encrypted backup insomething like Dropbox with relative safety. Without the secret from config.php,it's unlikely that an attacker would be able to decrypt the data. This alsomeans that you won't be able to. If you have the keys and the config.phpsecret, but the database is encrypted, you're stuck with attempting to break theencryption by disabling signature checks. For a smooth recovery you'll want themaster key, config.php file, and an up-to-date database snapshot, all savedsecurely somewhere else.


At this point, I think the convenience factor of keeping the keys with thebackup is negated. Another annoyance would be the restore process. You'd stillbe spinning up a new Nextcloud instance to decrypt the data. The decrypted datawould then be a full backup of your Nextcloud instance, which would itself needto be imported/restored to a Nextcloud instance.


I also found this article on backing up Nextcloud, in the article they create a backup directly from Nextcloud (using nextcloud.export) then backup that file to other locations using Duplicati. Not quite what you want but maybe of some use.


now, all is running well and configured (moved from google to my nextcloud inkl. contacts, calender and thinks like this) i come to the ask "what will happen if my system crash some time, or i have to resetup - maybe for omv6 oder 7 or what ever ...


looks good to me, so i will try to "convert" it to "our" project here - whats about the "stop web server" (and start) section - will it be the same (for us) just to stop the nextcloud container? or can someone tell me how to stop it after i do a docker exec -it -u abc nextcloud bash


When I migrated my nextcloud to another machine I activated maintenance mode and copied the appdata folders to the new machine and threw up the dockers. So my backup strategy is just to take copies of the appdata folders.

But your way might be cleaner


up again - copy the dump file to the container (just used the appdata/nextclouddb folder) and run mysql -h localhost --force -u"user" -p"password" nextcloud My problem: I want to backup my files stored in a hosted Nextcloud instance using restic and the rclone backup. Despite having rclone all set up and being able to store a repository on the rclone backend, I am not able to backup data from the Nextcloud to a local repository. Note that I am speaking of an externally hosted Nextcloud instance of which I only want to backup my user data; i.e. no databases or such. The following command:


I think that that admin does not (and should not?) have rights to the database. This account is a user in the application and usually an account with another name is used for the database.

If you look into the config.php you will notice dbuser (most likely nextcloud) and dbpassword which might be a better choice.

The password is also stored in the file /etc/postgresql-nextcloud.secret.


I had the same problem with nextcloud running on DSM. It is not a sailfish issue, for some reason webDAV does not work on nextcloud on top of DSM if you do not run it in the web root folder. I soved this by using a virtual host. Alternatively you could move your nextcloud instance to the web root. Forwarding via htaccess seems not to work, at least I read that.


The logging in succeeded when creating the account, but it is throwing HTTP 401 left right and center behind the scenes (journalctl).

Both when doing synchronize in the account settings, and when opening the backup page.


Hi,

I am looking for advise to setup a backup sync of my nextcoud to my NAS with raid.

Nextcloud running on rpi3 by dietpi. Looked for an app but did not find any updated one.

What i would like is to have my NC to be automatically backup/synced to the my NAS.

How can i achieve that?

thanks

Andrew


So i am thinking about the following setup and please share you thoughts about it.

Have a nextcloud running on raid 1 setup system of dietpi. Then have a cron script that runs periodically and back up the NC install on NAS.

Also i have read about ncp-config, but i do not know how to access it.

thank you


Really I would advise you not to rely on SeedVault for any form of backup at the moment. In my experience some stuff gets backed up, some does not. Some of the stuff that is apparently backed up does not get restored. And SeedVault is not yet fully supported in /e/OS, and it may never be: this issue was closed recently because there has been no activity on it, not because it is fixed!


If your need is for backup of SMS only, then QKSMS, SMS Backup and Restore, and SMS Import / Export from F-Droid will all do everything you need. IF you need Call LOgs as well, then nit QKSMS, but the other two will be fine.


I have a problem. Today I set up my nextCloud and wanted to activate a two-factor authentication directly.I logged in as admin and activated the two-factor authentication. As I thought that you have to configure the two-factor authentication first, I logged out directly. Of course, I did not save the backup code.


I mean by the extra backup, is when you have remote cloud service connected, but you also wan't an extra backup for remote cloud service if the remote cloud service is gone, is down, or something else.


Because Google officially offers a free storage of 15 GB and nearlyunlimited traffic, a remote backup of an OPNsense configuration file isfree of charge, the only thing you need is an account at Google(Google Drive Signup) .


After set-up, the backup feature will run a first backup of the OPNsenseconfiguration file. Then, if the configuration is subsequently changed, a new backup will be run once per day early in the morning.

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