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.
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?
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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.
BTRFS and ZFS support real deduplication via copy on write, and would eliminate all current disadvantages of symlink and hardlink deduplication. It just works.
yeah that's a good point, I'll add an option to take advantage of this if you know you're running on a filesystem where that works as intended.
Why have it be one huge python source file?
oh don't worry, it's all separate files during development -- there's a build-stage which bundles everything up into a single file for distribution. But thanks for the concern
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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?
I think Copyparty would be great for that purpose. The only thing you're missing is a way to expose it to the internet, such as a public IP or some tunnel
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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.
Nextcloud is like Windows 95, it works great when you install it then it just keeps getting slower as you fill it with content
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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.
This looks great but I really wish it had SFTP.
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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]you even mention ladybird as browser, nice
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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 in the market for a self hosted file server so I can use it as a destination for website backups. Absolutely going to give this a look next week. Thanks for posting about it!
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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.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I want something with a permission model that works the same when accessed over a network share (SMB, ideally NFS) and access over a web interface. Ideally it would have a Mac File Provider sync client and whatever the Windows equivalent is called as well.
Nextcloud is fine but it’s not that.
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you even mention ladybird as browser, nice
it's such an impressive project! Amazing what they've accomplished in so little time, and so important too -- we need as many options as we can get.
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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.
Great job on something like this! I'll probably give it a whirl soon, I like Nextcloud but find it clunky sometimes because it's often a bit more than I need. Maybe breaking it up into Immich + this would help! Thank you for sharing your project!
One thing to note, your comparison against Nextcloud has a partially-incorrect point regarding file upload max size. The client does upload chunking, so is unaffected by the Cloudflare issue as well, but I believe the web client is still affected, just not the apps. https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_files/big_file_upload_configuration.html#adjust-chunk-size-on-nextcloud-side
I suspect a few others may be as well, but I'm only familiar with the Nextcloud one because that's what I've been running, and discovered in making sure I could still upload video files recorded while out and about.
Also love that it looks like a simpler install!
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This looks great but I really wish it had SFTP.
thanks for the vote, I hear ya
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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]Alright, you bought me with this
Amazing presentation and nice that you have a demo!
