And the dav’s, for a calendar and contact sync, maybe a VPN, pihole or similar for sure and joplin

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I do this with:

  • syncthing (set it up so all of your devices sync to one always-on ‘hub’ instance on your server)
  • Radicale (caldav and carddav)
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There is a bunch of ways to do that, I’d say nextcloud is good if you want to have a multi-device system with syncing and convenience tools

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Yup, agree with this. I personally use Nextcloud but there are lighter solutions just for file hosting/syncing.

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I agree.

I used to use Nextcloud, but it was too heavyweight for me and the ARM compatibiloty for me was pretty bad.

Eventually I just set up Syncthing on my NAS, set it up on my devices to sync necessary directories, and set up a separate cronjob to create backups from the NAS. Super simple, and fits my needs better.

It all depends on the needs.

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Nextcloud is quite bloated if you only want to use the file sync feature. Maybe try: https://github.com/kd2org/karadav

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+1 for Syncthing. If all you want is files syncing between PCs, it’s simple and effective. My only real complaint is the way you interface with it. Every client is also a server serving up a web interface. The benefit is that you can manage all your machines from whatever machine you are on, the bad side is you have a bunch of web servers being open in your house, and have to maintain a bunch of usernames/passwords. If you have a good password manager that isn’t too much overhead though. And if you use the “introducer” feature, making your NAS the introducer, then every new computer you add will propagate to all the other ones.

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As far as I know, Syncthing’s local web interface is locked down by default. You should only be able to access it from localhost unless you change the settings. That said, there is some security concerns about JS in browsers making web requests to localhost, which is why I keep a password on Syncthing even though the webui isn’t remotely connectable.

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For a more user-friendly (IMO) alternative, altough not open source, there is Resilio Sync. The main difference with Syncthing is that you don’t introduce clients to each other; you just share folders.

I find Nextcloud to be extremely bloated and its apps are okay, but none of them are the best at what they do. Syncthing is better at keeping your files in sync, PhotoPrism is better at being a photo gallery, and so on.

I’ve been using Synching to nightly backup my cellphone pictures for about 4 years now and it is still working just fine. I have a folder that gets pulled to my phones with edited photos and the phone cam foler gets pushed. Worst thing about it is android sometimes stops allowing the client to run if you haven’t opened it in awhile.

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You’ve posted the same thing like 5 times…

Apologies! I’ll try to clean them up! No idea why lol

I’m chalking it up to various different Lemmy app growing pains? I’ve settled on Liftoff, and it gets random weird 404 errors.

i have used filestash for a number of years now as a simple and easy to access Web front end to files

https://www.filestash.app/

It is very lightweight.

then radicale for contacts/calendars.

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You can check oCIS

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I love me some nextcloud but if you just want access to a single directory on a single computer, you could do that with gossa and then use whatever backup solution you want for the files themselves.

Or maybe I’m misunderstanding and you need two-way syncing.

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2 way for password database and joplin notes sync, also caldav and carddav

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If you need ONLY file hosting there are better alternatives(like Syncthing, for example). But if you need Contacts, Calendars, Music streaming(subsonic/ampache compatible) all-in-one - then Nextcloud is of course better. I mentioned only those Nextcloud apps, that i use myself, YMMV.

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