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Nextcloud ate my data on a single user installation with no fancy settings turned on, with no upgrades attempted. The sync client on desktop said it was fully
by sneak 2y ago
Nextcloud ate my data on a single user installation with no fancy settings turned on, with no upgrades attempted.
The sync client on desktop said it was fully synced. Only 200GB of 800GB was on the machine.
It’s some of the worst software I have ever used. It’s the pentagon house with the inverted roof built with the two-clawed hammer that eevee described.
- TonyTrapp 2y agoI had a similar experience with ownCloud. Regularly, file uploads were timing out, leaving the database in an inconsistent state (apparently), which then later caused the files to be deleted on my desktop where the files were coming from. I'm still not sure why I put up so long with it. It was a slow mess, especially on the single-board computer I ran it on, and SyncThing was a breeze compared to it, with no data loss at all (and much faster on the same SBC).
- BrandoElFollito 2y agoI ultimately moved to Syncthing too. It requires understanding how it works, but once you do it is wonderful.
- touggourt 2y ago> The sync client on desktop said it was fully synced. Only 200GB of 800GB was on the machine. Did you read the manual? It is recommended for such size to do the first sync using rsync (or similar) followed by the CLI command to build the files database.
- mort96 2y agoSilent data loss like that is not acceptable, even if there would have been a way to sync which would have worked around the data loss bug.
- BrandoElFollito 2y agoA service that manages data cannot fail on such things. Nextcloud could refuse this first sync and point to solutions but losing data just "because the manual says rsync" is not acceptable
- touggourt 2y agoYou're right.