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Cloud Storage with smart/on-demand sync Linux client?
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I've not had a problem with nextclouds experimental selective sync. Have you tried clearing all your nextcloud dotfiles and setting it up from scratch?
Question on NC. The last time I used it, it stored all files in a db (sql of choice). Is it still doing that? Or are they in a folder structure now? I had an issue where the db file got corrupted, and I lost everything. I had a folder structure backup, because I didn't trust sql for file storage, but it's the reason I haven't gone back to NC.
I think they store the data about the files in a database, but the files are in a folder structure.
Doesn't make sense to have data that could be a few gigabytes in a database, or maybe that's just me.
Not just you. It didn't make sense to me either, which is why it struck me as odd, and why I kept a separate backup. This was a long while ago, so things, it seems, have changed (unsurprisingly with NC, for the better).
Next cloud has never stored the files themselves in a db. I've been using it since before it existed (own cloud) and then switched, it always has had a flat file storage that you can just backup and browse without the metadata from the database if you want.
Unfortunately that's also part of it's Achilles heel and why it's so slow, it's not optimized.
Maybe it was the lack of metadata? I'm not sure, it's been a while since I used it last. I'll try to spin it up again and see how it does for my usecase now. I really only used it for file storage.