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Hello! How are folks self-hosting online storage, similar to Google Drive?

Some options I've found:

A bunch more: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted?tab=readme-ov-file#file-transfer---web-based-file-managers

I mainly just need basic file management features. I don't plan to share files outside of my tailscale VPN. I do need to support multiple users though.

I'm not considering Nextcloud because that seems too big. I'm also not considering syncthing for this project because I don't want copies on multiple devices.

I'm currently just using ssh+nautilus and that's worked great for just me, but something similar to Google Drive would be easier to onboard my family.

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[–] percent@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I started to go down that path, but then I heard that there were problems with data corruption

[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No issues so far, got sources?
Anyway, always follow 3-2-1 for backups.

[–] percent@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Nah it was a while back. IIRC there were multiple sources, but I don't remember any of them 🙃

Though, I don't really remember the details either. Maybe it was OS specific? I know there was a dodgy FUSE implementation out there for macOS at some point, and Cryptomator mounts its local drive with FUSE. I use macOS and NixOS, so it coulda been that.