Hello! How are folks self-hosting online storage, similar to Google Drive?

Some options I’ve found:

A bunch more: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#file-transfer---web-based-file-managers

I mainly just need basic file management features. I don’t plan to share files outside of my tailscale VPN. I do need to support multiple users though.

I’m not considering Nextcloud because that seems too big. I’m also not considering syncthing for this project because I don’t want copies on multiple devices.

I’m currently just using ssh+nautilus and that’s worked great for just me, but something similar to Google Drive would be easier to onboard my family.

  • oranki@piefed.socialEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Nextcloud, despite you’re not considering it. You can disable or not install the apps you don’t need, like Calendar, Contacts, Photos, Dashboard, Activity, etc.

    There’s also a fork of Filebrowser, called Filebrowser Quantum, which I’ve been interested in, though haven’t tried yet: https://github.com/gtsteffaniak/filebrowser

  • percent@infosec.pubEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I’ve been trying Peergos lately, and I’m pretty happy with it so far.

    Google’s nagging offers for free trials of Gemini made me realize that I was basically handing data over to an AI company 🤦🏻‍♂️ So I’ve been looking for an alternative too

  • 0x0@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Whatever the alternative - or even googledrive - if you first store your files in a cryptomator folder then it really doesn’t matter where you sync them to.

    • percent@infosec.pubEnglish
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      5 months ago

      I started to go down that path, but then I heard that there were problems with data corruption

      • 0x0@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        5 months ago

        No issues so far, got sources?
        Anyway, always follow 3-2-1 for backups.

        • percent@infosec.pubEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Nah it was a while back. IIRC there were multiple sources, but I don’t remember any of them 🙃

          Though, I don’t really remember the details either. Maybe it was OS specific? I know there was a dodgy FUSE implementation out there for macOS at some point, and Cryptomator mounts its local drive with FUSE. I use macOS and NixOS, so it coulda been that.

  • IsThisAnAI@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Self hosting backups for anything remotely critical is usually a terrible terrible idea. Carry on.