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Yeah I'm a little worried about the maintenance burden, tbh. I'm not actually a linux/sysadmin type person, but I was pretty keen to achieve my goal of being Go

Yeah I'm a little worried about the maintenance burden, tbh. I'm not actually a linux/sysadmin type person, but I was pretty keen to achieve my goal of being Google free by 2021 (which I'm happy to announce with this migration that I did :), though I still watch youtube anonymously sometimes). But I'm not sure it'll be the most ideal solution for the long term. I'll see what the maintenance burden actually is like through next year. Some folks have suggested looking at the docker installation options (as opposed to the snap package, which I use here), since it's apparently really easy to maintain. We'll see.

behringer 6y ago
I think buying a NAS with all the built in software you need is a more sensible approach for the average enthusiast. But nextcloud is cool too.
Shared404 6y ago
One option which is what I've been doing is just using SFTP. I find that that reduces the maintenance burden to just keeping a machine running and patched. I also set up a read-only web frontend with NGINX's directory indexing + htaccess so I can share files easily.
- rakoo 6y ago
  This is also the direction I'm taking. It makes everything just easier when everything is file-driven, backups are simpler, and when nothing works anymore the basics always work.
- LinuxBender 6y ago
  A client that works really well with SFTP is lftp. It is in most linux distros and is available for mac in brew and in cygwin for windows. It has a mirror subsystem that works nearly like rsync and can support SFTP + chroot. Combine that with rsnapshot for diffs and you can fall back to earlier versions without using a lot of disk space. You can put that rsnapshot location outside of the SFTP chroot so that malicious access can't wreck your data, or just make the directory above your rsnapshots root-only access so regular users in a non chroot environment can't get there.
  - Shared404 6y ago
    That sounds super nice, I'll have to look into it. Thanks!

behringer 6y ago

I think buying a NAS with all the built in software you need is a more sensible approach for the average enthusiast. But nextcloud is cool too.

Shared404 6y ago

One option which is what I've been doing is just using SFTP. I find that that reduces the maintenance burden to just keeping a machine running and patched. I also set up a read-only web frontend with NGINX's directory indexing + htaccess so I can share files easily.

rakoo 6y ago
This is also the direction I'm taking. It makes everything just easier when everything is file-driven, backups are simpler, and when nothing works anymore the basics always work.
LinuxBender 6y ago
A client that works really well with SFTP is lftp. It is in most linux distros and is available for mac in brew and in cygwin for windows. It has a mirror subsystem that works nearly like rsync and can support SFTP + chroot. Combine that with rsnapshot for diffs and you can fall back to earlier versions without using a lot of disk space. You can put that rsnapshot location outside of the SFTP chroot so that malicious access can't wreck your data, or just make the directory above your rsnapshots root-only access so regular users in a non chroot environment can't get there.
- Shared404 6y ago
  That sounds super nice, I'll have to look into it. Thanks!