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Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive

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Post by wkat4242 »

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

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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 use S3 glacier on Scaleway (European cloud provider). Storing about 3TB costs me about 7€ per month including VAT. I've had to restore 1TB in the past and it cost me around 10€. Not bad for a worst case scenario. They also do mini VPSes for 3€ per month with unlimited traffic. Really nice provider, I've used them for many years.

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Post by wkat4242 »

cheema33 wrote: post #73
rambambram wrote: post #46

USB sticks, the alternative to the cloud.

Surely you jest. I love USB sticks. But they are not a proper alternative to cloud storage. For example, how do I do share select files/folders with select people, in other countries?

Copy selected files to another pendrive. Use postal service to ship pendrive to other person. We used to call that sneakernet :D

But yeah there's a reason people don't do this anymore

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Post by aborsy »

dugite-code wrote: post #167
aborsy wrote: post #86

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sudo snap install nextcloud That’s all! Auto updates and I can bet it will not break.

Snap isn't the best experience for Nextcloud in my experience, fine for a demo or a single user instance that isn't mission critical. Users who expect more out of it will often bump up against its limitations. Anyone who wants to seriously use Nextcloud should look into the AIO docker containers or rolling the individual containers themselves. Nextcloud has expanded into a full groupware stack and it's expected you h…

It includes most of the essential features, and I’d say it’s excellent for professional use. I’ve been running an instance for many years on a VPS for work collaboration, and it’s been perfect. It’s now hosted behind Cloudflare Tunnels, with group members whitelisted by email.

If you need more advanced or fancy/niche features, AIO might be a better though heavier fit (I run an instance of AIO at home, mostly for testing). Snap is lightweight and a bit opinionated (in reasonable ways in my view), and the documentation used to mention some of its limitations. In exchange, you get snappier, more robust installation.

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Post by motorest »

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

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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.

> 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.

That single 18TB HD is hardly safe from a disaster or even plain old hardware death, and it's a single point of failure. You need at least 3 times as many HDs to start to have something you can actually rely on to keep your data for 3-5years.

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Post by zos_kia »

maxlin wrote: post #109

Given how integrated Drive and Docs are, if this doesn't have docs-like collaborative realtime document editing, for many people this is like "30% of Google Drive" For people whose UX is dragging and dropping stuff to browser, and/or using a desktop sync client only, sure why not, the UI looks clean and familiar. But as someone who has used and still uses like 3 different similar things concurrently, the only real re…

Twake includes OnlyOFfice which has collaborative realtime document editing on Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc...

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Post by ponooqjoqo »

aborsy wrote: post #86
ponooqjoqo wrote: post #70

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I tried to install nextcloud once, and it was an exercise in misery.

sudo snap install nextcloud That’s all! Auto updates and I can bet it will not break.

I didn't have any issues actually installing it, I had issues getting it to run properly.

I used a Docker container and it led to so many error messages, having to wipe all the containers and restart, etc.

So I gave up and didn't bother.

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Post by ponooqjoqo »

ndsipa_pomu wrote: post #202
ponooqjoqo wrote: post #70

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I tried to install nextcloud once, and it was an exercise in misery.

I've run a self-hosted Nextcloud instance for many years and Docker is by far the easiest. I started off with a native installation and that can be a pain when upgrading the OS (Ubuntu in my case). I tried the snap version when that became available and was impressed by how easy it was, though administering it required a bit of learning as the file locations where all different. Running it in Docker made it so much e…

The issue wasn't the Docker config, it was the web-based setup experience afterwards. If I messed up something minor, I'd have to blow away all the Docker containers and start fresh.

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Post by foul »

gregoriol wrote: post #66
foul wrote: post #56

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In European nations who aren't English-first-language it's quite widespread around university students and people that outgrown Whatsapp, it isn't very much different than using a Discord groupchat (and you lose less important stuff in Telegram). Admittedly a bit is for network effect around "grindset" jocks but it isn't very much different than using discord or Meta messenger or Slack, just a freemium SaaS that the…

It's not so much about security, as FOSS conversation groups would be open to anyone anyway, but it's not a good look for a project to use a tool that is known to be quite shady while there are FOSS tools, or simply tools with a better reputation. Also the project group seems to be french, not english-first-language, and Telegram is absolutely not well seen in France, not used by much more than a few percent

If you say "shady" because CEO is a Russian in Dubai and for years nobody really knew how the hell could he sustain the company, yeah you're right.

About the FOSS alternatives you're right, but to use a closed source SaaS is just a choice people make because they are not confident in their own infra.

If it's "shady" because of cybercriminals, I insist in saying that it's the same than using Discord (pedophile rings) or Whatsapp/Meta messenger (extensive history of terrorists, gangs, traffickers of any kind).

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Post by misterdata »

benhurmarcel wrote: post #208
misterdata wrote: post #158

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If you’re on iOS, try my (FOSS) app for Syncthing: https://github.com/pixelspark/sushitrain

Why did you restrict it by country? I’m in the EU and can’t install it.

You are most likely in France: your government does not allow publishing an app containing cryptography (in this case, Golang's crypto implementations and a package used by Syncthing - only using iOS libs should be fine) without authorization (which can only be obtained through French forms, at which point I'd want a French lawyer to be involved, so no).

You could of course build the app yourself from source.

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