Paperless and Nextcloud on QNAP or else
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rhinopup · 2023-11-21 10:24

Hello r/selfhost!
I have been a reader in the past, but now I am turning to the help of
the community:

I came across Paperless and wanted to give it a try as we as a family
are drowning in paperwork.
I like to try things out but I am not super experienced with Linus or
Command line tools.

I have a QNAP TS453a up and running (File Station 30TB, Raid 5 +
Offsitebackup with the same config) which I can reach with the various
QNAP services (Mostly QSYNC, sometimes QNAP Cloud, Wireguard is also
running).

I want to have paperless ngx in a docker (I would realize this with
container station) but have following questions:

1. Does it make sense to set up paperless on the current setup?
1.a. YES: what would I need to pay attention to?
1.b. NO: what could/should I change to make 1.a. possible?
1.c. Can I migrate the container to another platform, when I need to
upgrade?

2. I will migrate to Apple soon, does QSync work with apple as well (I
guess there is an app, but that does not mean, that it is useful.) Is
there anything I need to consider?

3. Is there a benefit of migrating to Nextcloud just for file storage?
I know nextcloud can do a lot more things, right now files are the
only things I need (especially sharing files with other from the
outside)
3.a. Would nextcloud run on a VM, a docker or something else?
3.b. Does it make sense to set up Nextcloud on QNAP (or is the
hardware too weak?)
3.c. Should I run paperless in the same VM or not (depends on 3.a.)

4. What is the next step? I guess the QNAP will die on me at some
point, or I would like to upgrade to a 10 Gbit network.
4.a. What would be the best solution to set up now, to be future proof
and keep the migration effort to a minimum.
4.b. What hardware should I get for my own server? (Cores, Ram, GPU)

In the future I want to be able to:
- Access from outside with wireguard (I have a Fritz Router which is
quite nice)
- Let people have access to certain files and folders from the outside
without any hassle.
- Have paperless up and running for good, but want to access the PDFs
from within the nextcloud folder structure
- Have decent hardware to be safe for another 10 years. (Qnap has
served me well in the last 10).
- users will be around 5 on a regular basis (currently 2)

Hope that was not too long, excited for your ideas.
Cheers