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.

  • poVoq@lemmy.ml
    21·
    3 years ago

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

    • BlueTomato@lemmy.mlOP
      0·
      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
          1·
          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
        1·
        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
          0·
          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