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Hey,
I’d like to explore self-hosting someday and I’ve heard good things about NextCloud, but doesn’t this kind of defeat the purpose of having a cloud backup since I’d want it to be offsite?
Yes and no. The data stored on your self-hosted NextCloud instance can always be backed up to a remote repository - I’d suggest looking at a fantastic tool called Rclone which can potentially serve this purpose.
Based on your requirements as I understand them, a hybrid solution is probably going to serve you best so that you have low-latency, local access to the data as you need it, while keeping and backing up to a remote repository regularly.
Hope this helps and all the best :)
Hi there, is there alternative software that can be installed instead? Any recommendations?