Nextcloud Backup Done Right! Full & Incremental on Linux with Docker (2025 Guide)

🔄 Nextcloud Backup & Restore: Full & Incremental Backup Setup!

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🚀 Is your Nextcloud data safe? What if your server crashes or files get accidentally deleted? In this tutorial, I'll show you how to set up a weekly full backup and daily incremental backups for Nextcloud and its MySQL database using simple bash scripts.

🔹 What You’ll Learn:
✅ How to create automated Nextcloud backups
✅ How to restore your Nextcloud data in case of disaster
✅ How to schedule backups with cron jobs
✅ How to keep passwords secure in an environment file

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🚀 Supercharge Your Nextcloud with High-Performance Backups! 🚀

In this video, I’ll show you how to set up full and incremental backups for Nextcloud using Docker and rsync. Whether you’re running a home server or managing a production instance, backups are essential to keep your data safe!

🔹 What you’ll learn:
✅ Full backups with rsync and MySQL dumps
✅ Incremental backups to save storage and time
✅ Automating everything with a simple script

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10:32 Technically this makes a differential backup because you're referencing the most recent full backup (and incremental backup references the most recent backup). When restoring, you only need the most recent full backup and one differential backup.

[diegovasquez]

hi! love ur videos, helps a lot but I have one issue, got several VLANs on my LAN, and the can't do video calls between them, I've tried to make a TURN server but it doesn't work, could you help me please!

[tummydummy]

I clicked the link for "Scripts used in the video:" and was taken to a Nextcloud page that gave an error about needing to be upgraded. Will you be making your scripts available again, please?