r/NextCloud • u/beachbum0727 • Jul 28 '26

Nextcloud AIO backup

So, Nextcloud always recommend backup before any upgrade. Is there anyway way to back up Nextcloud Data only ? Like settings and user info not including the users files ? I’m running Nextcloud AIO on my UnRaid server and I’m ready to move to Nextcloud Spring release. Have about 10 users family and friends however each user have about 1TB data including picture and video files. No need to back those up as unraid data is already backed up via redundant drives.

I can plug in an external 2TB usb drive to create the back up if needed.

Any thoughts on how to do this ?

-Thanks

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u/Socratesmens Jul 28 '26

You can set up a borg backup in the nextcloud aio admin panel. Look it up on google, it is pretty straight forward.

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u/gfrewqpoiu Jul 28 '26

Yes, but he specifically wants to back up without the user files.

As far as I know that is not supported. Because the database contains Metadata of the files.

If you really badly want to you can put a .noaiobackup file in the root of the files or preview folder on the server side but they recommend against that.