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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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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Their non-standard way of storing files, which makes them basically inaccessible without Seafile, is a disaster waiting to happen. With Nextcloud at least I can do normal filesystem level backups and access the files like any others if I really need to.

[–] magnus@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

There is no need to spread FUD like that. Their "disaster waiting to happen" way of chunking and saving files is actually what makes it superior to Nextcloud for my and many other usecases. Without the active chunking while up- or downloading one needs to sync the whole file all over again if one bit changed. By chunking and indexing every file, you have the benefit of delta sync. On top of that you get versioning which ironically can be used as kind of a backup function on file level.

Besides that you can do proper backups of the Seafile data repositories and database for disaster recovery or use the FUSE mount for file backups.

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