Post 9k7Leia5Is9eUoPV5s by gedvondur@hulvr.com
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(DIR) Post #9k7DCG2p0b6qFYlntY by craigmaloney@octodon.social
2019-06-22T19:55:24Z
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So Dropbox is starting to focus more on being a portal for business and less on being that big dumb syncing drive that we all want.If I were to ditch Dropbox and start exploring other options what would be the closest to the Dropbox experience. That is: syncing files between Ubuntu and Android devices, grabbing photos off of my Android phone, and handling merge conflicts on a text file without mangling the file.Recommendations?
(DIR) Post #9k7JZ1r4WwvCcxW1hY by craigmaloney@octodon.social
2019-06-22T21:08:19Z
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One small wrinkle is that I'm rather attached to a program called SimpleTasks for handling my todo.txt. I think the only things that it will sync with are owncloud and Dropbox.
(DIR) Post #9k7JZ27NYJxvRX937Q by kemonine@social.holdmybeer.solutions
2019-06-22T21:11:19.091293Z
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@craigmaloney If it works with owncloud it should also "just work" with nextcloud.It's likely using web dav or similar behind the scenes.
(DIR) Post #9k7JcJnaGxLR9DS7aS by craigmaloney@octodon.social
2019-06-22T21:11:48Z
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@kemonine Is it? Bleh. 😁
(DIR) Post #9k7JfG0eohwYGSy8ES by kemonine@social.holdmybeer.solutions
2019-06-22T21:12:27.586557Z
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@craigmaloney it's not as bad as you think 😉 it's still a common "thing" at times.box may also be ano ther one to look into but i don't know if they have a proper linux client these days
(DIR) Post #9k7LZhn6oSmYb970iW by gedvondur@hulvr.com
2019-06-22T19:57:41Z
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@craigmaloney Syncthing or NextCloud. I think syncthing is probably what you are looking for, but I think its easier to backup NextCloud.
(DIR) Post #9k7LZhx2DYip5vkwBk by charlag@birb.site
2019-06-22T20:09:09Z
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@gedvondur @craigmaloney this. Depending on how dumb you want it to be, Nextcloud can do many things: sync your contacts and calendar, upload your photos, fetch RSS for you. I don't have experience with Syncthing but I think it's very simple and just fetches new versions of files?
(DIR) Post #9k7LZi7fa1EFcujQlU by gedvondur@hulvr.com
2019-06-22T20:39:35Z
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@charlag @craigmaloney Now that I think about it, Synology Cloud Drive would also serve as a good replacement, but it means buying a Synology NAS.
(DIR) Post #9k7LZiFT71T216NevA by dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud
2019-06-22T21:33:47Z
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@gedvondur What's wrong with a Synology NAS? @charlag @craigmaloney
(DIR) Post #9k7Leia5Is9eUoPV5s by gedvondur@hulvr.com
2019-06-22T21:34:46Z
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@dredmorbius @charlag @craigmaloney Nothing. Been using them for years. Just a lot more expensive solution than the other two and some folks are "OPEN SOURCE ONLY." So I usually start with those solutions.
(DIR) Post #9k7MHHBd5aHcpMMEQi by dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud
2019-06-22T21:41:44Z
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@gedvondur What would your suggestion for a LAN NAS in the 4-16 TB range be, HW & SW? I'd prefer smaller, quieter, and lower power consumption.Synology's been one option. I have a Turris Omnia, which has a NAS enclosure kit available. @charlag @craigmaloney
(DIR) Post #9k7MRkI7jW6PzRO59k by dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud
2019-06-22T21:43:38Z
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@gedvondur Roles include backing up linux and macos systems (possibly Android and IOS), media server, PXEboot / VM image server would be nice to have.@charlag @craigmaloney
(DIR) Post #9k7MmnASEaNMzYpssi by gedvondur@hulvr.com
2019-06-22T21:47:25Z
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@dredmorbius @charlag @craigmaloney Well what are your performance requirements? 10GbE? For my rig, I run a Synology DS918+. Can do LCAP bonded gigabit Ethernet, memory expansion and you can do relatively high IOPS with the addition of 2 M.2 NVMe SSDs for read/write caching. Max 64TB internal, max 144TB with expansion units. I would not use the Omnia for that, I prefer dedicated hardware. QNAP makes a good NAS as well.
(DIR) Post #9k7MtrYMKLkWcXO9x2 by gedvondur@hulvr.com
2019-06-22T21:48:42Z
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@dredmorbius Reading this now, I still stand by the idea of the Synology. Should be a good option for you. I also use external USB drive to back it up, running 4 drives as a SHR RAID group.
(DIR) Post #9k7NA4gxFImK0E8iNU by dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud
2019-06-22T21:51:38Z
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@gedvondur GigE and WiFi, mostly. Performance shouldn't be a real hurdle.Physical footprint (the Synology 4-drive boxes are a good baseline), power, noise, and flexibility are.The Turris NAS is 2 disks only.Turris offers numerous services via OpenWRT, sho bypassing Synology (or anything else's) proprietary crud should be doable.I'm fairly hardcore Linux myself. Shell tools preferred to GUI. @charlag @craigmaloney
(DIR) Post #9k7NlC2os6TxWN4APw by gedvondur@hulvr.com
2019-06-22T21:58:20Z
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@dredmorbius @charlag @craigmaloney For me it's less about command line or Linux, its about data protection and ease of use. NAS is an appliance, one you administer via CLI is something of an oxymoron. However, I get where you are coming from. Just back everything up obsessively. 😉
(DIR) Post #9k7POSz1vXK5IuaIkq by andreas@nitro.horse
2019-06-22T21:34:58Z
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@craigmaloney hmm @nextcloud [1] and Tresorit [2] are worth a look.[1] https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-dropbox-google-drive-and-google-docs[2] https://tresorit.com
(DIR) Post #9k9e6SwtChihc4NU8G by cambridgeport90@qoto.org
2019-06-24T00:01:03Z
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@craigmaloney OneDrive works, I think.
(DIR) Post #9k9e6T7WZAE893Lyi0 by clacke@libranet.de
2019-06-24T00:10:46Z
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@craigmaloney I kind of read the "this time I want it to be free software" as implicit. Was I wrong?@cambridgeport90