Question Best desktop app to use alongside webtrees?

The problem with having both external and internal webtrees installations is keeping two databases synchronized.  I could have both PHP installations tap the same external DB, but that doesn't solve stubbyd’s backup issue.

My site is hosted with a provider that does backups three times a day or sometimes more often, and lets me trigger an extra backup whenever I wish.  They store the backups offsite. I also run a cron job there that exports to data/HHH.ged daily and a local cron job to download that GEDCOM.

I frequently do a remote mount of the website and occasionally use rsync to get a full local copy (which includes the media and the exported GEDCOM).

@WGroleau , Which hosting service are you using?

My provider is TigerTech.net, same as this forum.
My webtrees site is UniGen.us

stubbyd wrote:

What I'm looking for is a desktop app that I can use offline and as a data backup of my webtrees tree. I can see, and have read about the issues with researching in say Ancestry or MyHeritage and then exporting the gedcom and subsequent import to webtrees. But mostly because I'm a paranoid sort of chap about data retention I want to also have access to the tree elsewhere.

I run a cronjob on the server that frequently dumps a GEDCOM from the webtrees database.  I can also remote mount my website to look like a local install.  I could (but haven't) have a true local install access the remote database.

What I'd really like—which will probably never happen—would be to also have a local database and a way to synchronize changes between the local DB and the server DB.  I think I made that a feature request long ago.