2019-06-02
Trying to backup to a cloudservice again 9 months ago
After the migration to the new homeserver was finished I found out I had to run backups on a separate computer: misconfigured backups so the old idea of backups to a cloudservice is on my mind again. I've looked into this before: Backup to .. the cloud! and I still want to backup to a cloud-based service which has a webdav interface and is based on owncloud. With some searching I came across How to synchronize your files with TransIP’s STACK using the commandline. I'd like the outgoing bandwidth to be limited so the VDSL uplink isn't completely filled with the backup traffic. Installing owncloud-client-cmd still has a lot of dependencies on graphical stuff, but doesn't install the GUI of the owncloud client. In owncloud-client-cmd I can't set the bandwidth limits, but I can set those in the graphical client. But after a test it shows that owncloud-client-cmd doesn't read .local/share/data/ownCloud/owncloud.cfg for the bandwidth settings. At least with the VDSL uplink speed and the wondershaper active the responsiveness of other applications at home never suffered. Maybe specific rules for the IP addresses of the cloud service could ratelimit the uploads.