I’ve used Nextcloud for a long while but only for cloud storage and photo backup from my phone. I’ve moved the latter to Immich and just replaced the cloud storage with Seafile.
So far everything is hunky dory but I was wondering if anyone who’s run Seafile for longer has any insights for things to watch out for with it. I’m following the documentation backup solution and I’m the only user (so the whole db/file de sync during backup isn’t an issue)
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All of your files are now in a proprietary directory unlike nextcloud, enjoy
All his files are secure and properly synced… unlike Nextcloud.
Yes but you can’t access them outside of seafile, which is a downside for me
I don’t understand your message. What did you wanna say with “proprietary directly” and “unlock Nextcloud”?
I meant unlike! Thanks
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That was one reason I procrastinated so long about moving. But I figured I’d take the plunge and see how I get on
I went NC, seafile, NC for the same reasons. NC is way too bloated but it does file sync well.
Seafile is lightning fast but I don’t feel comfortable only being able to access files through their apps.
Nextcloud was too slow and bloated for me. I used Seafile for years and it was fine, but at some point I went to some more simple setup : sftpgo to share folders (sftp, dav) and syncthing for the folders I want to sync between devices. You can also set ignore lists in syncthing to ignore large dirs. Keep it simple stupid 😅
I’ve been meaning to try https://github.com/kd2org/karadav out, lightweight server that supports nextcloud applications. Has anyone else tried it out?
I haven’t, but it’s on my list. I also want to try copyparty. Currently, I use SFTPGo, it works pretty well. They both don’t support Nextcloud apps, but I use Round Sync on my phone.
hey, copyparty dev here - I’ll be upfront and warn that if you’re looking for a service to do full bidirectional file syncing, with proper file tracking and versioning, then something like syncthing is a better choice. Copyparty is able to do single-direction syncing of local folders to the server pretty well (using copyparty’s u2c or rclone), but that’s about it.
But if you’re looking for something to handle file uploads faster than many alternatives, or any of the other features listed in the readme, then I’d be happy to help if you ever get stuck somewhere :>
Just an update to say that I’ve setup copyparty and it’s working very well. Speeds are excellent. I found an issue, but it wasn’t with copyparty. When uploading large files with rclone, the transfer size would keep increasing and the upload would never finish. I use traefik as a reverse-proxy and it would terminate requests after 60s. After I disabled that timeout, everything worked perfectly. There’s a good explanation here if anyone ever comes to you with a similar problem: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/8872
Awesome!! And thanks for mentioning the traefik thing; I added it to the example so maybe it’ll help somebody else one day :>
