introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server
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I made a video about copyparty, the selfhosted fileserver I've been making for the past 5 years.
The main focus of the video is the features, but it also touches upon configuration. Was hoping it would be easier to follow than the readme on github... not sure how well that went, but hey
This video is also available to watch on the copyparty demo server, as a high-quality AV1 file and a lower-quality h264.
Looks really cool. Might spin up a test bed to try.
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I would probably remove python 2 support, it was end of life when the project was started.
As long as it's not causing any issues or drawbacks for modern python versions (and it isn't), I don't see any reason to do that -- on the contrary, I know people are running copyparty on retro equipment, so I'd very much prefer to keep it for as long as possible
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I made a video about copyparty, the selfhosted fileserver I've been making for the past 5 years.
The main focus of the video is the features, but it also touches upon configuration. Was hoping it would be easier to follow than the readme on github... not sure how well that went, but hey
This video is also available to watch on the copyparty demo server, as a high-quality AV1 file and a lower-quality h264.
Can we have Gopher support?
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I made a video about copyparty, the selfhosted fileserver I've been making for the past 5 years.
The main focus of the video is the features, but it also touches upon configuration. Was hoping it would be easier to follow than the readme on github... not sure how well that went, but hey
This video is also available to watch on the copyparty demo server, as a high-quality AV1 file and a lower-quality h264.
Oh my god, this seems really good and closer to what I want than anything yet. Been looking for something to replace Nextcloud and found nothing good so I might take a look at this.
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Can we have Gopher support?
I was thinking of that!! But then I realized that even Firefox removed gopher support by now, so the joke was dead on arrival
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I like samba because I can mount it as a folder in the file explorer of my Linux desktop. But Samba is a little slow.
Why use smba when there's NFS?
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SFTP is not currently on the roadmap, but it's not entirely implausible.
FTPS is supported, but it requires an optional dependency to be installed (pyopenssl), so it's not available in the Windows EXE. And I just realized that the dependency is currently not present inside the docker images either, so I'll get that fixed right away.
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I was thinking of that!! But then I realized that even Firefox removed gopher support by now, so the joke was dead on arrival
Firefox isn’t that great for FTP either. Gopher still exists
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As long as it's not causing any issues or drawbacks for modern python versions (and it isn't), I don't see any reason to do that -- on the contrary, I know people are running copyparty on retro equipment, so I'd very much prefer to keep it for as long as possible
I don’t think there is a Python 2 version for retro equipment (DOS?).
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Oh my god, this seems really good and closer to what I want than anything yet. Been looking for something to replace Nextcloud and found nothing good so I might take a look at this.
I replaced nextCloud’s file sharing with Syncthing just recently, as I found myself only synchronising between two computers (one desktop, one smartphone) anyway.
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That's a neat idea -- I've heard that a lot of stuff uses the subsonic API under the hood, so I'll see what it would take to become compatible with that. At first glance it looks like I'd have to mine and index way more information about audio files, but could still be doable
Looking at and/or incorporating Navidrome might be helpful.
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I made a video about copyparty, the selfhosted fileserver I've been making for the past 5 years.
The main focus of the video is the features, but it also touches upon configuration. Was hoping it would be easier to follow than the readme on github... not sure how well that went, but hey
This video is also available to watch on the copyparty demo server, as a high-quality AV1 file and a lower-quality h264.
Wow! This is great. I may give it a shot.
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Oh my god, this seems really good and closer to what I want than anything yet. Been looking for something to replace Nextcloud and found nothing good so I might take a look at this.
Just curious, why did you replace nextcloud? I'm looking into transitioning from my current file server, and I've mostly heard only good things and not NextCloud.
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I made a video about copyparty, the selfhosted fileserver I've been making for the past 5 years.
The main focus of the video is the features, but it also touches upon configuration. Was hoping it would be easier to follow than the readme on github... not sure how well that went, but hey
This video is also available to watch on the copyparty demo server, as a high-quality AV1 file and a lower-quality h264.
I'm properly in awe at this project.
Not only does it support a wide range of protocols and runs practically everywhere, but it can play audio, video, display images and has keyboard shortcut support ???It's got everything I could think about and so much more.
I can't wait to try it out !
Thank you so much for your time and for making this open source.
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I'm properly in awe at this project.
Not only does it support a wide range of protocols and runs practically everywhere, but it can play audio, video, display images and has keyboard shortcut support ???It's got everything I could think about and so much more.
I can't wait to try it out !
Thank you so much for your time and for making this open source.
Thanks a lot for the kind words! ready to answer questions if you hit any bumps
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I made a video about copyparty, the selfhosted fileserver I've been making for the past 5 years.
The main focus of the video is the features, but it also touches upon configuration. Was hoping it would be easier to follow than the readme on github... not sure how well that went, but hey
This video is also available to watch on the copyparty demo server, as a high-quality AV1 file and a lower-quality h264.
I've been using copyparty for months, and it's just been an absolute gem. and the fact there are even iOS shortcuts to upload things you stumble across while doomscrolling is just icing on top.
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I like samba because I can mount it as a folder in the file explorer of my Linux desktop. But Samba is a little slow.
You can also mount WebDAV folders like that.
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I would probably remove python 2 support, it was end of life when the project was started.
Just because something is EOL doesn't make it useless.
So long as it's known and managed, it's fine.
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I made a video about copyparty, the selfhosted fileserver I've been making for the past 5 years.
The main focus of the video is the features, but it also touches upon configuration. Was hoping it would be easier to follow than the readme on github... not sure how well that went, but hey
This video is also available to watch on the copyparty demo server, as a high-quality AV1 file and a lower-quality h264.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Hey fellow scener, cool project!
Just a few thoughts/questions:
- BTRFS and ZFS support real deduplication via copy on write, and would eliminate all current disadvantages of symlink and hardlink deduplication. It just works.
- Why have it be one huge python source file? This is a serious code smell imo, and something you really should avoid doing as this can be a major maintenance burden.
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I made a video about copyparty, the selfhosted fileserver I've been making for the past 5 years.
The main focus of the video is the features, but it also touches upon configuration. Was hoping it would be easier to follow than the readme on github... not sure how well that went, but hey
This video is also available to watch on the copyparty demo server, as a high-quality AV1 file and a lower-quality h264.
Sometimes I feel so new to setting up my own digital ecosystem because I look at a thing and think "that's so cool" but struggle to imagine it at home. So could someone help me understand.
This would be a replacement for something like Google Drive or Proton Drive? The actions I would use this for would be:
- sending files to friends
- managing a collection of files like PDFs, music, ISO's that could be accessible by my friends (or just my household)
So I would spin this up on my NAS or my main PC and replace those services and accomplish those actions using this software?
Are there other services or actions I'm missing? Am I misunderstanding the premise entirely?
