Claudius LinkApr 26, 2023

Question to the #Mastodon community

After my negative experience with #DropBox
https://infosec.exchange/@realn2s/110200718918101674

Any recommendations for a (self-hosted) alternative? For a self hoste version I would really like the option to (securely) mirror it offsite (e.g team up with others and safe the data of each other. Ideally with E2E encryption)

@nextcloud looks most promising. But I don't know how the mirroring could be accomplished. The status and functionality of Open Cloud Mesh could be interesting.

#Boost is welcome

Claudius Link (@[email protected])

Everything is fine now. Backup was restored successfully (AFAI can Know). Contrary to all rumours, it took somewhere between 3 and 4 hours. Nevertheless, it didn't feel too good that i had to depend on my backup 😬 Takeaways #Dropbox wasn't restored successfully. And Dropbox files are NOT on disk when Dropbox isn't working 😖. I bet the files will be somewhere but I consider this (intentional) bad UX. IMHO this is a kind of user-lock-in. If you uninstall Dropbox your files are gone 🤬

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Show threadMichael Potts (HMHackMaster)

@realn2s I run a pretty robust @nextcloud setup on my personal infrastructure. The server mounts the data volume via NFS from my SAN, which is then rsync'd and snapshot for backups and fault tolerance.

Depending on your size, you can run it pretty easily on anything and since the server storage is just the files, back them up however you want!

I agree with the other comments though, Nextcloud's E2E isn't something I trust (and it would ruin the deduplication and restorability)

Apr 26, 2023 at 11:52pmWeb