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introducing copyparty, the FOSS file server (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 days ago by tripflag@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I made a video about copyparty, the selfhosted fileserver I've been making for the past 5 years.

The main focus of the video is the features, but it also touches upon configuration. Was hoping it would be easier to follow than the readme on github... not sure how well that went, but hey :D

This video is also available to watch on the copyparty demo server, as a high-quality AV1 file and a lower-quality h264.

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[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sometimes I feel so new to setting up my own digital ecosystem because I look at a thing and think "that's so cool" but struggle to imagine it at home. So could someone help me understand.

This would be a replacement for something like Google Drive or Proton Drive? The actions I would use this for would be:

  • sending files to friends
  • managing a collection of files like PDFs, music, ISO's that could be accessible by my friends (or just my household)

So I would spin this up on my NAS or my main PC and replace those services and accomplish those actions using this software?

Are there other services or actions I'm missing? Am I misunderstanding the premise entirely?

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Oh yea, copyparty could do that. I might just do that too. My issue is more how do I grant them access to my network to get the thing tough? I currently use wireguard profiles and lock down where they can reach with rules and shit on a firewalla on a per account basis but that’s really complex and inelegant. It works and would working copypasta, but I kind of wish there was a simple webUI where I could define what a WireGuard user should be able to reach on my network with simple checkboxes by rules I have created over time. Probably wouldn’t tie into firewalla nicely though it could be more likely with OPNsense.

Hmm. Surely someone must have thought of that already. It would make adopting things like copypasta much simpler and less risky.

[–] RheumatoidArthritis@mander.xyz 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think Copyparty would be great for that purpose. The only thing you're missing is a way to expose it to the internet, such as a public IP or some tunnel

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[–] tux0r@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Can we have Gopher support?

[–] tripflag@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I was thinking of that!! But then I realized that even Firefox removed gopher support by now, so the joke was dead on arrival :P

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 6 points 2 days ago

Firefox isn’t that great for FTP either. Gopher still exists :-) and I’d love to use it even more.

[–] _cryptagion@quokk.au 6 points 2 days ago

I've been using copyparty for months, and it's just been an absolute gem. and the fact there are even iOS shortcuts to upload things you stumble across while doomscrolling is just icing on top.

[–] hexagonwin@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago

Looks fantastic, I'll actually be trying this. Love how it doesn't lock my files into some obscure format like seafiles.

[–] MacStainless@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

I’m in the market for a self hosted file server so I can use it as a destination for website backups. Absolutely going to give this a look next week. Thanks for posting about it!

[–] hperrin@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Can you point me to the WebDAV code? I’m interested to see your implementation. There are some parts of the spec that are ambiguous, and I like to see how those are implemented in different servers.

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[–] Skipcast@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

This looks sick. Thanks for making and sharing it!

[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I have a samba fileserver behind wireguard. Would copyparty be an improvement over samba?

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[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

This is really impressive

[–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 days ago

OMG! I've been looking for something like this for quite some time!

I will try this as soon as I have time. Thank you!

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Looks really cool. Might spin up a test bed to try.

[–] KarnaSubarna@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Any way to run the server as a docker container?

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 days ago

You can run absolutely anything as a docker container that you have the binary (and other files if needed), or you can go fancy and compile from source in docker.

Just create a dockerfile.

From (some base image you want to use like Ubuntu or Alpine)

Copy necessary files

Run the binary

You can run it straight from command line, put it in a docker compose file, or even tag it and upload it to a repository (and then reference that in your docker compose)

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Wow! This is great. I may give it a shot.

[–] libre_warrior@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

This looks nighsome as blossom!

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Hey! Just set this up today and it seems pretty good. Only issue I'm having is that is pretty slow to download (~2mb/s) what are some good ways to speed it up?

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