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Google Drive alternative? (lemmy.today)

submitted 5 months ago by paequ2@lemmy.today to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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

Some options I've found:

https://filebrowser.org/ (maintenance-only mode)
https://www.seafile.com/en/home/ (weird disk layout scares me)
https://tinyfilemanager.github.io/ (i like simple!)
https://github.com/mickael-kerjean/filestash

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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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

I'm not OP and am a dev, but also prefer flat files. Here's my reasoning:

versioning - I use snapshots in my filesystem (BTRFS), which is more than enough, and have a git hosting solution for things I care about more
sync is plenty fast on OCIS and Samba, it's just kinda slow on Nextcloud; I'm sure Seafile is better, but it's not something I do frequently anyway, especially since backups from devices is automatic and uses a different, fast system
incremental - not my use case, most of my files either never change (movies) or are small (text flees)

My main concerns with Seafile specifically are:

developed by a Chinese company and doesn't seem particularly open to contributions
mostly written in C, so there's a good chance of security vulnerabilities
documentation about the disk format isn't very open, so third party tools don't really exist
main target is larger orgs, so I'm unlikely to get very good support

With flat files, I can easily switch to a different service if my needs change.