Looking for personal cloud storage alternatives
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Seafile ‘scrambles’ files and doesn’t make them available to other applications on the host, which I don’t think OP wants.
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I was in the same boat... I just wanted a simple god damn self-hosted cloudStorage without any nitty gritty or all the bloat that comes with most local/self-hosted cloud solution...
Syncthing is good, but not really a cloud storage solution (I love syncthing and I use It to sync all my backups !!).
Give SFTPGo a try
It has also a WebDAV functionality if you wan't to use it that way ! It just plain file storage with security features. However, not sure there are any application available, it mostly used it as web application :). -
why not just NFS or smb in a tailscale network?
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I did not know about opencloud.eu, and now I'm intrigued. I was always looking for a simple Google Drive alternative, but Nextcloud was too much. Will definitely keep an eye on it.
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If you don't want to wait, Owncloud Infinite Scale is basically ready right now, and Opencloud is unlikely to be more than a rebranded fork in the beginning anyway. So should be good for testing the principle right now.
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I didn't find anything for syncing yet. But I settled with plain smb shares which works for 99% of my needs and https://www.filestash.app/ for a simple webUI which is more convenient when browsing files and photos from the phone.
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If you really wanted a WebUI could install Cockpit with the File Sharing extension.
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What about OpenMediaVault?
Yes it focuses to be more of a NAS 'operating system' but the file sharing stuff is easy to set up. Any client can connect via nfs, smb or web to access any files. -
is there a more efficient alternative that isn't centralized?
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Seafile is great...with caveats that seem to bother people away from it:
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Files are stored as git-like chunks on the server
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Features behind a paywall for more than 3 users (Pro vs Comminity versions)
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Documentation can be very confusing at times
Item 1 can be mitigated by utilizing tools like Rclone to mount the files on the server, reassembling the chunks, then back up and unmount when done. Item 2 isn't a deal breaker for me.
It is super fast and reliable in my experience. I specify wanted the selective sync because my stupid MacBook has a tiny SSD, but I still wanted access to files from other device libraries.
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Lots, but rsync is wildly better just on its own.
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ah I missed that part.
