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Do you care about your privacy? Maybe it is time to set up your own Dropbox.

Rémi Lavedrine on September 13, 2018

Image from Syncthing There is a very famous meme over the internet that said "There is no cloud, it's just someone else's computer" I...
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Astrit Krasniqi • Edited

I'm using Seafile, never had a problem, the sync is faster then with Nexctloud. I use it to backup my photos from my Iphone and also to sync files that i need. In a nutshell Seafile is fast, easy and smooth to use

As per note taking and and personal documentation i use Bookstack, another awesome piece of software

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bleskop stevens

You could get nextcloud/owncloud running in minutes on a raspberry pi with a mounted usb stick using docker images for the app and the mysql instance if you don't already have it.

Using a letsencrypt cert and duckdns my raspberry pi is ssl-secured. You do not need a static ip address for this.

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Jon Kleiser

Thanks a lot for this very valuable information!

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Thomas Landin

NextCloud (at least the NextCloudPi option) has backup features built in, both for files and the database.

It's trivial to set up secure backups. With NextCloudPi having basically zero hardware costs it's highly feasible to setup multiple systems and have them either federate (i.e. work like other cloud services) or use as off-site backup.

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Rémi Lavedrine

Yes, love the NextCloudPi options. Ownyourbits makes a really great job with it.
But I found Syncthing to be more light and that fits my need much better.

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Ohkubo KOHEI • Edited

I use this for several years
resilio.com/
It works perfectly on multiplatforms including iOS.

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Rémi Lavedrine • Edited

Yes, but as it proprietary code, I prefer to just move from it especially as Syncthing works that smoothly. :-)
But it is a very good alternative as I mentionned in the article (if you don't care about closed source code, which you should on that topic). :-)

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Perry Donham • Edited

I've been using Seafile for years. I run it on a Linux server configured in RAID10, and it has all the clients that I need for my workflow. As Snowden pointed out, if you are storing your files on Dropbox et al, you might as well just mail them to the NSA. I would add 'even if they are encrypted'.

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Ondrej

I would also recommend Git-Annex instead of DropBox (I use *BSD on laptop and it works for me perfectly).

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jeromesch

NextCloud / OwnCloud works completly fine for me.
I've it hosted on a QNAP NAS TS251+

You can also secure the Cloud with a vpn.
That way the user needs the vpn-key, username, userpassword + IP.