Seafile selfhosted
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@fbartels said in Seafile selfhosted:
I do put some hopes into this new "infinite scale" backend that owncloud is working on, though.
Will that feed into Nextcloud development? Or are you suggesting Cloudron should add ownCloud?
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@christiaan We actually had ownCloud (https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/owncloud-app) and it was one of our very first apps. But OC stopped working with the postgres in ubuntu 18. We waited a long while for them to update it, but they didn't. Maybe they have fixed it now. Have to look into it again.
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@christiaan said in Seafile selfhosted:
Will that feed into Nextcloud development?
That pretty much depends on the Nextcloud developers. But I have my doubts they will, since this change pretty much breaks the way integrations work for them.
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Thanks guys. I look forward to their rewrite of ownCloud in Go (and their new interface). That sounds promising.
One thing that ownCloud has over Nextcloud is support for delta sync. We're an architects practice and we need delta sync to work efficiently with the collaboration features in our CAD/BIM software. We can have multiple people working on a building model throughout the day who need to sync changes periodically. Doesn't work very well if they need to sync the entire file each time, especially given that some of our files can be 1 GB in size.
Seafile interests me for the same reason; they also support delta sync. And seem to have a good rep and a well-designed interface. (Plus a nice wiki implementation).
I've tried Syncthing previously (before I discovered self-hosted cloud-computing and Cloudron) and I found the user interface too much to deal with.
P.S. I'm loving Cloundron btw, it's really well done.
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@christiaan said in Seafile selfhosted:
We're an architects practice and we need delta sync to work efficiently with the collaboration features in our CAD/BIM software. We can have multiple people working on a building model throughout the day who need to sync changes periodically. Doesn't work very well if they need to sync the entire file each time, especially given that some of our files can be 1 GB in size.
Slightly off topic but wonder if https://wikifactory.com would be useful for you? See https://wikifactory.com/features
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@jdaviescoates said in Seafile selfhosted:
We design buildings rather than products, but that's a very cool website, thanks.
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@necrevistonnezr I believe Seafile is block sync, and Nextcloud is file sync. Both fast at different things. (depending on file sizes.)
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@will said in Seafile selfhosted:
@necrevistonnezr I believe Seafile is block sync, and Nextcloud is file sync. Both fast at different things. (depending on file sizes.)
Right, I understand block sync as 'delta sync'. We actually need that to work in our CAD software efficiently. I'm not aware of it creating any sort of performance issues for different files though. Does it make small file syncing slower or something?
I believe the only reason Nextcloud haven't implemented it is that they don't believe the development resources are worth it for the number of people who need it.
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@christiaan Exactly!
"When differences exist between files, instead of requiring the transfer of the entire file, the block synchronization transfers only changes. Block synchronization is the method appropriate for database applications, such as MS Exchange, Oracle or SQL Server." -
@christiaan well remember, everything is blocks on the hard drive, it's just a question of how that's all exposed to be shared.
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