Month: July 2020

Android Backups – Nextcloud vs. Resilio Sync

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nextcloud-vs-resilio

Issue: I want to backup specific, existing folders of multiple Android devices. The backup has to be done locally inside the LAN and encryption at rest is a must-have. tl;dr: Resilio Sync hosted on a Raspberry Pi / Odroid / NUC does the job perfectly with their app. Nextcloud is far slower and the FolderSync … [Read more…]

checking the availability of an encrypted volume ft. Pushbullet and Pi-hole

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Issue: I need to get a notification if a necessary volume on my Linux device is not mounted, as this volume cannot get automatically mounted because a passphrase is required. The curl-request is dependent on the custom DNS (Pi-hole). When setting up my Intel NUC I decided that all my persistent data of the running … [Read more…]