Comment by prmoustache
Comment by prmoustache 8 days ago
>I see your point, but from the perspective of the Android phone, this is already a backup. This is because if I lose the phone, I can restore the important parts of its state from the copy on the server - which is the definition of a backup, according to Wikipedia for example.
I am not familiar enough with nextcloud but what happens if - excluding your home server setup - you modify a picture on your smartphone and overwrite it? I guess it is synchronized to the nextcloud server in modified form and replace the original file, right[1]? If so what if you were to realize you screwed up and should not have overwritten it? Hence the reason I am saying it is not exactly a backup.
[1] that would be the behavior I expect of a syncing mechanism, I use syncthing-fork myself for that.
Ah, right, then maybe I didn't see the point after all. Nextcloud handles this quite well though, I think, it will say, on the phone, that there is a conflict between the two versions of the file, and in case of images, it ever shows them side by side, and asks you what to do.