Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Carlos E. R." Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Google calc trouble Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:19:02 +0200 Lines: 51 Message-ID: References: <111vp0v$stoi$1@dont-email.me> <111vr5o$tgjf$2@dont-email.me> <1120nkp$16b4e$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net Dnbjai+m30AUhsK2pE9oHQJUk51k5BbTtvQ1qJzz9sGhmgpPnI Cancel-Lock: sha1:LDlvOkoluABrGrNVVC1yTWKl7+w= sha256:zcWh09Pxc6IS5Ztbco0rxLNXvYT1beboY1hxvBEXVyE= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <1120nkp$16b4e$1@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:154320 On 2026-06-30 17:33, Arno Welzel wrote: > Carlos E. R., 2026-06-30 11:24: > >> On 2026-06-30 09:27, Chris wrote: >>> Arno Welzel wrote: >>>> Carlos E. R., 2026-06-29 11:53: >>>> >>>>> I have been using Google Calc spread sheet for some years, to track how >>>>> much gasoline I buy for the car, and how many kilometres it does. >>>>> >>>>> Well, one day it lost me entries. It said there was some sync problem, >>>>> maybe it had stored a local copy that did not match the cloud version. >>>>> Now that file is impossible to open in the phone, it stalls. I could >>>>> open it on the computer and save to a different name, but one or two >>>>> lines are lost. >>>>> >>>>> It's done it again. Can't open the file in the phone. >>>> >>>> That's the reason, why we have a thing called "backup" ;-). >>> >>> It's also a reminder that "cloud" is not synonymous with "backup". >> >> How do you a backup of a calc sheet that is corrupted the instant you >> use it? > > You back it up before opening it of course - and ideally in *many* > versions. My preferred solution is a Nextcloud server which holds every > version within the last 60 days and in addition I have Borg backup for > the host which goes back up to 6 months if neccessary. > >> Do you do backups every 10 minutes, of the calc sheet files you edit, >> every time you save the file? On a phone, while driving? > > No, daily. At the moment I have 60 versions of every important file for > the last two months and in addition 16 versions for the 4 months before > that (one version per week). Daily doesn't solve the problem I have. > > The whole backup repository is around 406 GB - but this includes the > data of my whole family and close friends too who use my servers as well > and alse include a lot of photos and videos. > > -- Cheers, Carlos E.R. ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;