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[Question] Am I the only dummy who likes Seafile? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml to c/selfhost@lemmy.ml

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Its stupid fast, reliable, and rarely has any conflicts. If it does it seems to work them out without intervention. I've tried Nextcloud including the AIO image and its just so clunky and slow. I was getting sync errors just on the simple Notes apps. Repeatedly. I mean I get why people like it, it can do way more than Seafile. But for a pure Dropbox replacement, I love it.

The fact I can reach any file on any device from any other device without syncing EVERYTHING is fantastic. I know Syncthing is also popular, but seems to require more manual settings if you want to be selective on what syncs.

I will say, I've tried and failed numerous times to get Collabora CODE and S3 storage integration to work with Seafile and that is a nightmare, at least for me. I cannot get my head around it. But standing Seafile up itself was fairly easy.

Does anyone else use it? If so, have you tried the CODE and/or multiple storage backend integrations?

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[–] PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Actually I appreciate it. :)

Wasnt aware of the rclone functionality to use datachunks.

But how do you put the cloned data back into seafile?

Syncthing would simply wait until the peer is back online and propagate the update from the phone back to other peers.

But as far as I understand you simply pull a backup from a seafile repo if the server is down?

[–] Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You don't need to put it back. Rclone mount is another "portal" to the seafile data, but fully assembled. It mounts to a folder you specify. Then you reach in and pull anything you might need if all of the seafile clients and web app are down.

They do have their own tool called Seafuse that will assemble the data as well, but I've not tried it since rclone works great and has a ton of support. It's fantastic.

[–] PoisonedPrisonPanda@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok Now I understand.

Didnt knew that rclone was capable.

Well, that actually changes the situation. maybe I should still look into seafile.

Whats your hardware? i will try it on a RPi4, since I have read about nextcloud being a hog resource wise I hope seafile will be more calm

[–] Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I have a HP Microserver Gen 8. And about 22 docker containers including Seafile running. I've read folks had good success with it on Rpi, but I haven't tried myself. I ought to spin one up on one I have that's not doing anything.

I'm a recent convert to Rclone. I've struggled with other CLI backup tools like Borg and Restic, but rclone is very approachable.