The biggest problem of #selfhosted services and #homelab is a bus factor. What if my existence will be interrupted unexpectedly? When my #Nextcloud will crash someday after that, my family will not be able to get their files and photos anymore...
I'm thinking about an external drive with all Nextcloud data periodically copied there. To be able to disconnect it by hand from the dead server and connect to any PC. But which file system should it have? FAT32 can be read on any system but has a single file size limit. NTFS is not supported on Macs, EXT4 is not supported on both, Macs and Windows... I mean, not supported out of the box...
Bad situation. I wonder why #NTFS isn't the answer, the #Samba folks and the courts did so much.
The ingenous idea I picked up somewhere was that the #DVD filesystem, #UDF, had cross-platform support! A UDF-formatted USB stick works fine across atleast Linux and Windows. Startlingly, there is no filesystem-checker for UDF, which might be a deal-breaker. Or maybe only put checksummed archives on it or something?
@tetrislife@estevez I don't usually use any filesystem-checker manually, maybe they run autonomously on my system. But would it be bad if that isn't available? 🤔
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