Thank you for sharing this looks nice too

Currently testing zettelnotes, as it has git support, and file encryption. (I know Obsidian has several encryption plugins and git support) Obsidians is quite slow on my phone (too many plugins 😅) and I wouldn’t mind my notes being encrypted just for peace of mind.

Importing notes went quite good so far. I like Obsidians UI better as it is more polished.

First I was impressed by the extensibility of Obsidian, but over time I figured, I don’t need most plugins on a daily basis.

I would like to have a markdown Editor on Android, that supports editing .md file stored in different folders, without the need of setting up a Vault or other setup steps.

Not using ZFS but a similar approach: All my data (paperless, and other docker container data) is encrypted with LUKS on a separate disk. The OS is running unencrypted on the SD card (using a Raspberry Pi). This way I can swap out the system and relink the docker container data if needed. Yes, I do need to unlock after a reboot, but since the system is fully up, that’s done easily via ssh.

Still looking into ways to unlock it automatically on certain criteria…

3 backups:

• phone data is synced to a nvme drive (1) which holds all the data of my homelab
• This nvme is backed up to a nvme (2) drive on the same device via backrest
• The nvme is also synced via Diplicati to a cloud storage provider (3)

2 locations: home and cloud

1… what was 1 again?

I agree with this comment. As mentioned as answer in the post, to have a backup of these things is a big reason why I chose to selfhost. I had to switch devices (and operating systems) too many times. Moving data around everytime would be a hassle. To have all the important stuff not only stored but also organized and easy to access is very convenient and makes me stop worrying to accidentially lose my phone for example.

I just recently switched over to rpi-clone after doing backups of the booted SD with SD Card Copier, the GUI app on Raspberry OS.

The original version from billw2 didn’t work with modern OS versions. After doing some lookups in the issues and online, the users pointed to geerlingguy’s version, which seems to be maintained.

I’m not using rpi-clone-setup but rpi-clone sdX and after trying it for the first time, it worked. I swapped out the SD with the copy and the raspberry booted (it didn’t boot with billw2’s version).

Next step is to create a script for regular backups.

To your questions:

• Tried it, it works for my use-case
• rpi-clone asks for confirmation, which I need to address when trying to do backups automatically
• Have tried others but needed a working copy on a new SD card, so this is the solution I’m going with
• If you want a file you probably want to use dd. I’m aware of the space issue. I quickly looked up other tools: partclone and fsarchiver seem to address the free space issue, but I never tried them so I cannot speak to that.

What are you using to download them as Markdown?

Not more but I would say it offers some additional options and integrations, because it’s api based. For example, on my server I connected it with ntfy.sh which executes the command to pull the update, for the apps’ docker container. (It’s working 90% of the time)

I used this for a while, aside from rss feeds: newreleases.io

Are you using a VPN to connect to your devices at home? I have a similar setup, when I’m away from home, I connect via Tailscale (a version Wireguard VPN) and keep all notes in sync.

In Joplin I use the WebDAV connection to store files on my server at home.

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Caldav?

I use libimobildevice on my raspberry and it works in terms of backups. I haven‘t tried to restore it though. Hope this works too… :D

Yeah, I don‘t know if they have finally anounced it officially, but they mentioned it in their blog post in March. I‘ve installed it, and it works quite well for my usecase.

Please do. Maybe you‘ll find something useful. I found radicale working best for me (it was easy to install and selfhost). Selfhosting covers many topics, so it‘s difficult to share additional links here. But if you do a websearch, you should find good tutorials. Try to host in the local network first, and install a VPN to access services like CalDAV or CardDAV on the road. This will keep you from spending time on additional security considerations when hosting something on a public accessible host, which can be overwhelming when still being at the beginning.

Do you mean something like CalDAV? There are some solutions listed on the awesome-selfhosted github list

It now also comes with Gitea Actions and the Act Runner - in case this feature is relevant to you.

I recently installed linkding which works quite well.

I recently saw a blogpost somewhere, where someone used git versioning for writing, and I find this idea highly intriguing. Then I realized, that I already have an app that would allow me to work like this: NotesHub

For now, I only started a journal, but I plan for some time already to start writing again.

Obsidian is great too, but a pain when it comes to syncing on iOS.