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

    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