Hi All,
I have posted on this before, but never could quite get to getting it
done because life gets n the way. Isn't that the truth? ;-)
I think I am finally at a place where I can start working on this
project & get it going. Will likely be in pieces, so a little at a time.
Based on suggestions, research, etc. I think I have finally settled on
NextCloud over OwnCloud & am still planning to install on a RHEL-type
server. I inherited my father-in-laws old desktop, which I think will
work for what I need it to do. It is 8 GB of RAM (might be late
dual/quad core or early i-series)& I plan to (as suggested) install a
hard drive in it & use that as a dedicated box for the cloud
environment. Will eventually set up the backup so that it goes to the
DNS-323 for an onsite backup, although this may change. I have also
though of setting this up offsite somewhere as well, but not sure where
I would do that & what the ramifications would be. I do also have an
external drive that I can use as backup & will layer that with a
portable external drive for some measure of offsite backup. As
suggested I am likely going for a more enterprise drive purely for reliance.
My biggest question at this point, is where NextCloud saves it files on
the hard drive. Is there a particular location (i.e.
/home/username/???) where you can actually see the files (example:
document.ods), or does it obfuscate them somehow? I have tried the snap
install on my xubuntu box, but can never seem to find the files.
Basically I am thinking that if I had to evac my house & did not have a
cloud environment, I would still want to be able to access files
directly from my offsite external drive.
Any other things I need to consider in getting it setup correctly? I
would like to eventually tie it into some LDAP authentication at some
point, to allow for single-sign-on across the network & over the
internet...but not sure if I should do from the start or add later.
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