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.
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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.
Clearly a labour of love
Maybe support for some music streaming apps (subsonic?) would be cool?
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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.
Your readme looks super in depth, thanks for that! I haven't watched the video yet but will later.
I didn't see it mentioned from a quick glance, but is either sftp or ftps supported?
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Clearly a labour of love
Maybe support for some music streaming apps (subsonic?) would be cool?
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
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Your readme looks super in depth, thanks for that! I haven't watched the video yet but will later.
I didn't see it mentioned from a quick glance, but is either sftp or ftps supported?
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 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 have a samba fileserver behind wireguard. Would copyparty be an improvement over samba?
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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 sick. Thanks for making and sharing it!
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I have a samba fileserver behind wireguard. Would copyparty be an improvement over samba?
If all you need is basic remote file storage such as a samba server, and especially if you need samba in particular, then your current solution is probably a better fit for you.
Copyparty's main selling points is the large number of features in one package, and being pretty good at receiving file uploads (usually faster than other alternatives), but it does not have good samba support. Instead of samba, copyparty has WebDAV support, so you can still connect to it from your file manager -- but the performance will be different; depending on your access pattern and the type of files, it could be faster or slower than samba.
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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 would probably remove python 2 support, it was end of life when the project was started.
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If all you need is basic remote file storage such as a samba server, and especially if you need samba in particular, then your current solution is probably a better fit for you.
Copyparty's main selling points is the large number of features in one package, and being pretty good at receiving file uploads (usually faster than other alternatives), but it does not have good samba support. Instead of samba, copyparty has WebDAV support, so you can still connect to it from your file manager -- but the performance will be different; depending on your access pattern and the type of files, it could be faster or slower than samba.
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.
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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.
