[PLUG] Anyone using OwnCloud or NextCloud?

Jason Barnett jason.barnett71 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 10 17:41:12 UTC 2020


I second the SyncThing suggestion.
My favorite aspect is that it does not use "The Cloud" for syncing files. I
have only been using it for about 6 months, but it has served me well in
that time.

Jason

On Fri, Jan 10, 2020 at 9:21 AM Louis Kowolowski <louisk at cryptomonkeys.org>
wrote:

> On Jan 9, 2020, at 6:42 PM, Mike C. <mconnors1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I guess this is going to take more research on my part. All I do with
> > Google drive is store files there that I might want to send or reference
> > from any computer or my phone.
> >
> > IMHO, this shouldn't require a CRM app. such as a dejaoffice or spin up
> my
> > own virtual web server just so I can remotely access a few files now and
> > then.
> >
> > This is how and why Google wins in this instance. *Sigh*
> >
> You might look at something like SyncThing (https://syncthing.net <
> https://syncthing.net/>). I’ve been pretty happy with it. It replicates
> files. Nice and simple. Supported on many platforms, although there can be
> issues with mobile. Also does a nice job of working behind firewalls and
> NAT (although I’ve seen some issues with double-NAT).
>
> Its also available as a plugin for FreeNAS.
>
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