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Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Re: Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Post by happyweasel »

orliesaurus wrote: post #106

Lots of talk about must‑have features and backups here... BUT there's another piece that makes or breaks these tools... whether they can build a community around them and stick around for years... Open‑source cloud storage projects come and go when maintainers burn out... a sustainable business model or strong contributor base matters as much as technical checklists... ALSO interoperability is underrated... if your d…

>BUT there's another piece that makes or breaks these tools... whether they can >build a community around them and stick around for years...

Why ? who cares? if the tool solves the problem, you need a community maintain it. And that's it.

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Post by fletchowns »

magic_hamster wrote: post #189
fletchowns wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been using Nextcloud for years, but I've never used the web UI. Windows desktop app for syncing my Documents folder, and Android app for synchronizing a few folders on my phone, as well as the "append only" upload of my photo reel that something like SyncThing doesn't support. Works great, never had any issues with Nextcloud. The real value is in the companion apps. I use a cron job to back up Nextcloud to B2 an…

Couple of questions on your backups: How much storage do you use and how much does it cost? Have you ever tried restoring from Glacier?

I've got 18TB on Glacier and it costs $2.80/day

I've only tested partial restores from Glacier since it is expensive. I've got a raidz2 array locally as insurance against having to restore from a backup.

Re: Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Post by z3ratul163071 »

juchilov wrote: post #121

Seafile is the only good enough thing i've found so far for self-hosted file sync. But it is still a pain to upgrade the server version. nextCloud and friends is a complete disaster in my oppinion.

Running the docker variant, it is trivially easy, you just bump the tag version.

Been a user for around a decade. It is really great. Nextcloud was choking on large repos back in the day and it requires a beefier machine.

I first run Seafile on a cheap ARM board with 2GB ram and 2 core CPU.

Re: Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Post by z3ratul163071 »

3idet wrote: post #75

58.9% TypeScript and 32.6% JavaScript wouldn't be my first preference to implement such a high performance and throughput demanding application? Why is that?

this app is io bound and in that case it doesn't matter it runes on ts / js

Re: Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Post by brodock »

fletchowns wrote: post #192
magic_hamster wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Couple of questions on your backups: How much storage do you use and how much does it cost? Have you ever tried restoring from Glacier?

I've got 18TB on Glacier and it costs $2.80/day I've only tested partial restores from Glacier since it is expensive. I've got a raidz2 array locally as insurance against having to restore from a backup.

A 18 Tb NAS harddrive is about 320 USD. A 2 bay unifi unas2 199. It pays off in one year. Restoring data from it is free.

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Post by ianopolous »

belinder wrote: post #181
wobfan wrote: post #163

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100%. Though their UI has been update a little with the last major release. > But compare it to immich for example and they're just not playing in the same league imo I mean, this doesn't make sense at all, tbf. They're literally not in the same league, as their targeting different use cases. Nextcloud offers a MUCH broader experience, while Immich has a very clear cut focus and does nothing outside of that. Comparin…

So what's the immich equivalent for file sharing

You might be interested in Peergos (https://peergos.org) - creator here.

An old write up is here: https://itsfoss.com/peergos/

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Post by alex_duf »

brodock wrote: post #195
fletchowns wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've got 18TB on Glacier and it costs $2.80/day I've only tested partial restores from Glacier since it is expensive. I've got a raidz2 array locally as insurance against having to restore from a backup.

A 18 Tb NAS harddrive is about 320 USD. A 2 bay unifi unas2 199. It pays off in one year. Restoring data from it is free.

It's potentially not off-site though, a house fire and it's gone

Re: Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Post by alex_duf »

roshin wrote: post #186

I know this probably goes against hn ethos, but one of my most important features is the search. I store TB of data and it could be hard to find a picture. I want the cloud software to analyze the image so that I can search "2 people on Nothing street" and find it. so far google is amazing at search. hopefully others will be better, but it's really hard to evaluate cloud software based on that

Immich can do that

Re: Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Post by kmacdough »

safety1st wrote: post #188
orliesaurus wrote: post #106

Lots of talk about must‑have features and backups here... BUT there's another piece that makes or breaks these tools... whether they can build a community around them and stick around for years... Open‑source cloud storage projects come and go when maintainers burn out... a sustainable business model or strong contributor base matters as much as technical checklists... ALSO interoperability is underrated... if your d…

Is that a weakness of the tool's organizational model? I don't want to be part of a community around my cloud storage. I want it to work and I want to think about it as little as possible. I use Syncthing and it does a pretty great job at this, no one ever insisted I need to join a Syncthing community, yet it keeps on working. I don't pay a dime for Syncthing but I'm vaguely aware that they're linked to a company cal…

For a business headed open source project, it's still about the community. In this case, the business tends to take a defining and often controlling role in the community. This has plusses and minuses. On the plus side, if a business has a vested financial interest in the project, there is financial incentive for continuity. On the minus, when the company's financial interest no longer aligns with the community, many of us retain scars from rug pulling and switcheroos.

So understanding the long term stability of a community is more than just checking whether there is a company backing the project. It is important to analyze the nature and diversity of interest. I think it's just as important that there exists a larger community that the business depends on for extra feature + bugfixing work which is capable of forking. When this is possible, it is much less likely to be necessary.

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