New here, help! & Paperless-NGX reddit / selfhosted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- shelltech · 2023-11-15 22:25 Hi, I am new here. I am an absolute beginner in all of this. Docker, self hosting, home labs and general just computer science in general. Background about me, I am an Aircraft Maintenance Technician and I serve as the asset manager of a brand new $70m Gulfstream Business Jet. One thing that typically evades this industry somehow is good software that is flexible enough to meet the needs of how Aviation maintenance is categorized and documented. Most stewards of these aircraft simply stick to quick scans of the paper logbooks uploaded to some obscure folder and then placed in the logbook. Never to be seen again until the aircraft is sold and some sorry bum has to research the records. There are some software services out there that are specific to aviation maintenance and record keeping but they all really do one thing well and the others not so much while also costing on average $10k/year for one aircraft simply because we cater to the rich in this industry. And because each program only does bits and pieces well enough you typically end up having it have multiple software solutions each costing an obscure amount of money. One of the things I am really interested in doing is creating what I am calling in my mind a “Aircraft Time Capsule” I am thinking a smaller NAS or perhaps a small server or even an M2 Mac where I can host all of the documents and workflows pertinent to the Aircraft Maintenance. I know this is a software and not a hardware sub so I do have a specific self host software question to pose but I wanted to give this background to entice the right responses and maybe draw the attention of someone who would potentially be open to tackling this with me. The primary software I have a question about is Paperless-NGX. I love what the program does and its use case for aircraft records. But I need to identify where the files uploaded are stored, is it just in the Consume directory on whatever device it is you install it on? If that is the case how do you back it up? Lastly what is the most straight forward way to host it so that in the event the aircraft sells I can pass along the system to someone else? Sorry for the long post. TLDR In Paperless_NGX, where are the files stored? Is it just in the Consume directory on whatever device it is you install it on? If that is the case how do you back it up? Lastly what is the most straight forward way to host Paperless-NGX so that in the event the aircraft sells I can pass along the system to someone else? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- X_dude_X · 2023-11-15 22:38 They are stored in the media folder by default: /media/documents/originals ---------------------------------------------------------------------- shelltech · 2023-11-15 22:39 Is there a way to configure that to a different directory? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- X_dude_X · 2023-11-15 22:55 Upon creating the container you do already chose where that physically goes on your host system. You have to map the folders. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- blink-2022 · 2023-11-16 04:18 Something to consider is that you are taking on quite the project in an area you are not very familiar with. This can open up lots of problems down the road when things don't work correctly or something goes down. The nature of self hosted solutions means YOU will be tasked with keeping the system going with only internet/forum resources to help you adapt a solution for your specific commercial needs. It can be done but I would say it is unwise to use a open-source software in commercial applications. One reason is that Paperless-ngx isn't even the original project. I paperless-ng was more or less abandoned and a new group of developers took over the project and started paperless-ngx. People can migrate over to the new project but again, more headache and room for things to go wrong. Unless you are committed to making this work, you may be better off relying on solutions that offers vendor support. just my 2 cents. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- thekrautboy · 2023-11-16 04:34 https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/setup/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- flrn74 · 2023-11-16 07:47 Using docker you could mount any place you like in to the container. I do this and it also enables the backups in a sane way.