I am shocked how many ppl think synchronization like syncthing act as a backup.

No synchronisation is not a backup. If you accidentally delete the database and it syncs across all devices then the database is gone. If something is broken and overrides multiple times then the history if it is enabled is also gone.

Pls use proper backup methods to backup your database.

Edit: I sync my database also with syncthing across devices. But to back it up i have on multiple clients system backups running that include the database.

I try to follow the 3, 2, 1 backup procedure:

• 3 copies
• Spread across at least 2 devices (Computer, Server, other devices)
• At least 1 copy on a separate storage disk (USB flash drive)

Yunohost + Nextcloud

It is backed up alongwith everything else, all my data, under a normal 3-2-1 idea, but 5-3-1.

Each of the copies on separate media inc my main PC is also versioned. I keep 12 hourly versions, 7 daily versions, 4 weekly versions, 12 monthly versions, and then per-year versions going way back. This helps protect against corruption, like I accidentally deleted an keepassxc entry without noticing right away or w/e.

I sync it using my pCloud folder. In case I’m away and I need access to them, I also have a cron job that copies the most recent version to a webserver I have, under a directory I only know of, protected by a password. My .kbdx files also need a credentials file that can be generated programatically. Secure enough for me.

I copy it to external hard drives. It also syncs to other devices via Syncthing and Syncthing-Fork.

Syncthing. It’s not so much a backup as redundancy, though.

I have machines in the network that rarely get powered on, however, so I could possibly consider them offline backups.

Manually make a backup with the date in the file name stored in another folder and on a thumb drive.

All my systems backup to a remote box that has a hotswap bay that I rotate the drive every few weeks between another drive. The drive out of the hotswap bay is stored in a fire safe.

This is more all for images and documents, but everything gets the same backup since it’s whole systems. The backups are rsync with hard links so they take up less room.

I usually make a copy once a month of my database, I save it on an external hard drive that I can connect via USB, it probably is not the most practical way but at least it is the best way that is found

I use Vaultwarden, but either way most of my home server data gets backed up by getting encrypted and uploaded to Backblaze regularly/automatically.

If that fails well each client has a copy of the data, so just one has to survive.

manually. I used to sync via dropbox, but i was never comfortable with that solution.