I'm getting a little confused in my old age and may have asked this already. I was thinking of setting up a next /own cloud node up. Nothing huge just a place that i can setup the phones to back up to and I am not held to ransom for a paid subscription. Has anyone used these products? Any others out there I could look at? Also if you have used these products, is it possible to have two nodes in two separate locations that will sync each other up? Regards,
I reviewed a Raspberry Pi-powered Nextcloud box a while back. It's neat stuff, though configuring it for secure access outside your local network is a bit of a pain in the bum. Kinda-sorta. Nextcloud supports federated sharing, but if you want something posher, it's roll-your-own. I know people who use GlusterFS to synchronise both the data and the database, then a cluster manager on top.
Hmm, might be a bit beyond my skill set. My ideas scenario is two low power boxes, one at my place one at my folks syncing. And then apps on laptop, desktop and phone. I bought a qotom box to setup as my router running pfsense so I'm guessing combines with a ddns service the remote access side shouldn't be too hard to setup
To avoid messing with GlusterFS, I'd probably make the second box a backup destination rather than a full Nextcloud install (unless your parents fancy using Nextcloud themselves, of course.) Could be as simple as a cron job which rsyncs to the box at your parent's house, or could be using Syncthing to do it all automatically. (Disclaimer: I chuffin' love Syncthing, I do.)
Hmm the easiest option might just be another synology /xpenology box at my folks and openvpn on the qotom routers..
