Synchronization

I’ve been using a self-hosted nextcloud for years. Both my better-half and myself heavily relied on it for files, contacts and calendar synchronization.

It’s a mostly straight forward process thanks to the docker image and the awesome documentation. Still, updating is a manual process and I happened to fail once. While I was able to recover everything, it was deemed not safe-enough for work purpose. And so I became the sole user of this server.

It’s been more than a year now. And it’s time to move on to another, single-user, approach. It’s no coincidence I choose to do it now : I’ve set up my very own web radio so I don’t need to synchronize my music anymore and I have another solution for heavy files like movies. All that is left is mostly text files that I want to access via multiple machines, with or without graphical user interface.

Without further ado, folks, meet syncthing !