How do I set up backups for Immich, Nextcloud, and Radicale? I see lots of different options, I can’t pick!

Should I get Gitea or Forgejo? Forgejo seems to be a more free/libre fork of Gitea, the latter of which is influenced by a for-profit company. Is Forgejo functionally equivalent to Gitea, and if not, what are the differences? If they are basically the same I would probably go with Forgejo over Gitea. Is Forgejo’s documentation and setup similar, better, or worse than Gitea?

that makes sense, not having all your eggs in one basket.

hence keepass :D

might set up syncthing too so I can sync my passwords p2p…

I personally prefer keepass and really don’t trust my server to be secure enough with all my passwords…

That’s a big list. I already use joplin, but never knew you could self-host syncing! I’ll do that then :D

Ah, that seems pretty cool :D

It’s just an old laptop I had lying around. 8GB of ram, 256GB of storage, some old intel i5 processor (10th or 11th gen I think?). No performance hiccups, everything works well :D

I have another older laptop with a dead battery, 6th gen i3, 4GB of ram, and 128GB of storage that I haven’t touched yet, but might do so in the future.

yep, will do that. That seems really important

Radicale’s official documentation didn’t help me much, so I followed some youtube video (by “Awesome Open Source”) where you use a docker image instead of a python venv + pip install.

For Immich, official docs were fantastic!

For Nextcloud, I followed Learn Linux TV’s “How to Set Up Nextcloud on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS” (though I used Debian, not Ubuntu)

Ooh, I didn’t know you could self-host joplin sync! I’ve been using backblaze for quite a long time for that.

I am, indeed, a developer. I might try locally hosting Gitea/Forgejo as an extra backup. I assume you can have multiple “origins” in git, right? That means I can back my repository to both codeberg and server.

Grist seems pretty cool too.

I hosted radicale first so already had my events sorted out. Wasn’t really bothered moving them again. Also, I like radicale, it’s simple and it works.

that seems quite important, I’ll do that then!

ooh I might try that then!

I hosted Radicale first, so already had my calendar events and such set.

I’m already hosting Immich, I feel it was the most painless to set up out of the three. There was a weird error with python modules with radicale and Nextcloud was a bit more complex to set up, but they were all relatively easy to get started with.

I particularly like Immich’s mobile app. I just clicked a few buttons and BOOM all my puotos are backed up (you can even change what albums to include and exclude, and duplicates are automatically removed e.g. if you have the same photo in multiple albums)