Hello!

I recently had issues with my self-hosted instance of Nextcloud so I started looking for an alternative to it.

I would like something that could allow me to make a local network of shared files between devices I choose, if that makes any sense.

I stumbled upon Syncthing but it doesen’t seem what I had in mind: I understand that it replicates folders between devices, but I am looking for a way to distribuite files between machines. Again, like Nextcloud but without a central server to rely to.

Do you know if something of that sort exists?

Or if you have any other solution?

Thank you.

P.S. I am posting it here because it seems like some sort of self-hosting, but maybe I will cross-post it to the decentralized comunity.

    • BlueTomato@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 years ago

      Well I may have tinkered too much with my server.

      I have no real problem with Nextcloud, I have been using it for the last five years.

      I have been hosting it on a RaspberryPi3 and well the machine isn’t the most powerful out there.

      So taking advantage of this sudden break I have been looking for a serverless alternative.

  • fidibus@lemmy.161.social
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    3 years ago

    I wonder why you are being downvoted, I agree that self-hosting Nextcloud isn’t easy, upgrades break things, apps don’t work properly etc!

    Also a distributed personal cloud thing that I maybe host a server for which has 2x the storage which is then shared with others would be cool and maybe more reliable. But that would be a very ambitious software project.

    • fidibus@lemmy.161.social
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      3 years ago

      Oh I read your other comments and syncthing is literally what you are looking for. It’s like nextcloud in most ways, but without the nextcloud server, you can make a nextcloud folder or whatever and have it synced between devices without a server.

      • bruhbeans@lemmy.ml
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        3 years ago

        I disagree Syncthing is like nextcloud. I find it useful to describe Syncthing like an always-running rsync between multiple machines. nextcloud is a web ui for files and other apps, they serve very different purposes.

  • poVoq@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    What is the difference between folder syncing and distributing files between machines?

    • BlueTomato@lemmy.mlOP
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      3 years ago

      Uhm what I meant is this:

      Say I have a file in machine A. This software should be able to tell to machine B that A has the file and retrieve after an explicit request from B.

      Probably my wording wasn’t the best.

      I hope now it is clear what I was trying to ask :-)

        • BlueTomato@lemmy.mlOP
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          3 years ago

          This is very close to what I was looking for.

          I am going to try this and Tahoe-LAFS for a future extension of the service to a small local network.

          Thanks for the suggestions

      • poVoq@lemmy.ml
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        3 years ago

        So basically just file access through the network, like SAMBA does?

        There are lots of ways to do that, but it always works much better with a central server as a NAS.

        • BlueTomato@lemmy.mlOP
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          3 years ago

          Yes file access through the network and the web (https or something better).

          I understand that a self-hosted Nextcloud istance is still my best option.

          I will restore it but in the mean time also try some of the other suggestions here.

          thanks