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Self hosted Dropbox alternative - a Seafile setup overview - king1 - 13-03-2024 Thought I might share my experiences setting up a Seafile server, a reasonably complete, self hosted, dropbox clone... https://www.seafile.com/en/home/ I was looking for an alternative to avoid subscriptions, somewhere to store 100GB of photos and to manage the camera uploads from two or three phones. The Basics:
The setup process took me a couple of days off and on working through the process, I've used Ubuntu before so had a bit of an idea what I was doing but had a few annoying problems along the way, specifically...
The only complaint I really have about it is it keeps the data in the data folder in a block-format using compression to reduce file size. I would prefer if files were left alone, but I mitigate that buy running a seperate sync client on another PC that sync all libraries locally... and the drive client doesn't mount to a drive letter but I have worked out ho to do that now - dropbox doesn't either The Flexibility is great, if an account gets low on space, just allocate more, it's private, no subs, what's not to like... Some screenshots... The Sync Client The Drive Client The User Web Interface The Admin Web Interface RE: Self hosted Dropbox alternative - a Seafile setup overview - enserf - 13-03-2024 [quote pid="54527" dateline="1710285970"] [/quote] Well done! I would have tried that once upon a time; these days I'm too lazy. I use GoodSync to backup local folders (with files as-is; not come proprietary compressed format) to a) my external hard drive (primary backup) and b) OneDrive (secondary backup). Yes, OneDrive costs but it comes with my Office 365 subscription which I use. I get 1TB per user included which is pretty good. RE: Self hosted Dropbox alternative - a Seafile setup overview - king1 - 13-03-2024 (13-03-2024, 02:30 PM)enserf Wrote: [quote pid="54527" dateline="1710285970"]Well done! I would have tried that once upon a time; these days I'm too lazy. I use GoodSync to backup local folders (with files as-is; not come proprietary compressed format) to a) my external hard drive (primary backup) and b) OneDrive (secondary backup). Yes, OneDrive costs but it comes with my Office 365 subscription which I use. I get 1TB per user included which is pretty good. [/quote] another one I have been thinking about and experimenting with is RCLONE which you can use for pooling cloud storage into one large drive. So for example with the Office 365 Family which is 6 users, you could setup each user account then pool the accounts into a single 6TB cloud drive. You can achieve the same with stablebit which has a GUI but that costs, RCLONE is cli only I believe... RE: Self hosted Dropbox alternative - a Seafile setup overview - nzoomed - 18-03-2024 Sounds a good alternative indeed. I remember that Western Digital had something called "mycloud" on their NAS drives. I guess the big thing with this will be the requirement to use DDNS if you dont have a static IP address, how about connections over CG-NAT? RE: Self hosted Dropbox alternative - a Seafile setup overview - king1 - 18-03-2024 (18-03-2024, 11:53 AM)nzoomed Wrote: Sounds a good alternative indeed. Not sure about that, I imagine clients would be ok on CG-NAT, but I can't imagine the server would cope with it. In fact that must be the case for the client apps as my camera upload works when i'm out and about, the mobile networks are cgnat iirc RE: Self hosted Dropbox alternative - a Seafile setup overview - nzoomed - 19-03-2024 CG-NAT is a real PITA, im finding, I have found some workarounds for cameras using zerotier and VPN's but its reportedly poorer performance when running over GC-NAT. 4G and Starlink all use it too, but at least on my fibre connection I have a static IP so should be easy to implement for me, but some cheaper ISPs use CG-NAT on fibre too. |