[mətiːəs] he/him. Uninvited child of Whadjuk Noongar boodja. Gaming. Underwater photography. Sustainability. Self-hosted software. Occasionally knitting. FAIR research data. Metadata. Running from nothing.
Like some others, I have separate storage and compute servers.
The data directory is an NFS share on my storage server and I run Nextcloud in docker on my compute server.
I have the NFS share defined as a volume of type nfs in the docker compose, mounted to /var/www/html/data. Nextcloud itself just treats it like a local directory.
I really like KitchenOwl’s shopping list interface, native iOS app, and OIDC integration. I haven’t used the budgeting or meal planning functions yet.
I’m using Autorestic, a wrapper for Restic that lets you specify everything in a config file. It can fire hooks before/after backups so I’ve added it to my healthchecks instance to know if backups were completed successfully.
One caveat with Restic: it relies on hostnames to work optimally (for incremental backups) so if you’re using Autorestic in a container, set the host: option in the config file. My backups took a few hours each night until I fixed this - now they’re less than 30 minutes.
I use it to synchronise RetroArch save states across my devices - desktop PC, Android TV, and Android handheld.
I’ve done a couple of host migrations since using Docker for all my services.
I don’t even bother with database dumps or anything like that, I copy my compose files and mapped directories, being sure to preserve permissions, and all my services come back up without any issues.
Sorry, you didn’t go into any detail about why you can’t automate the process of detecting changes in web pages, so I’m going to offer an automation suggestion anyway:
https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io