Yep, I’d like to see how you’ve setup the on-the-go access - reverse proxy, cloudflare tunnel, VPN etc, and the security ramifications of the chosen access method as well as other pros and cons. I tried cloudflare tunnels but wasn’t confident about how secure it was. VPN on the other hand drains the phone battery and needs to wake up when unlocking the phone,

Yeah, absolutely! There are a few options. You can handle backups yourself, we also have a cool backup app that can back up to somebody else's Nextcloud instance so you can backup to your friend's Nextcloud instance and vice-versa. Another option is the built in Borg backup in the AIO docker image - another recommendation.

@@Nextcloud I love the sounds of this very much. I see a future video on the horizon. Thank you very much for sharing this data with us / me!

Low power draw saves money in long run. These servers are 24/7

I agree. But for non media playback, just storage, the pi 5 will do great. I'm going to build a similar device using the new minisforum ryzen PC.

​@@nikobellic570 a n100 minipc is 3.5x as fast and consumes under 10w at idle. That would cost less than 15€ a year more even with a energy cost of 30 ct/kWh

​@@LampJustinyou goddam right

@@nikobellic570And? A n100 uses 6W at idle and 12 at full load while more than doubling the rpi5 speed. And with a proper graphic chipset.

Same here, It seems like Docker doesn't have permission to write to the external drive. Even if it connected as a volume

Same question. How is it possible to add external storage? Thanks, and a very interesting video.@@gringomaus2080

🤣

just running debian 12 with kde & dracula theme

Planning to do this tonight, how's the performance? Last time I tried nextcloud was slow, bloated, sluggish. Thanks in advance

6w at idle with hdd and 10w on use 😉

hey, did you setup everything manually? asking because I'm using AIO version and it's very easy to install and manage from one dashboard

​@@su1ka yes, even collabora online, installed in native linux, not using the integrated one in nextcloud nor docker. And i can tell, it is much much snappier on a i3 NUC (7th gen) and 16GB of ram.

There's no maximum storage capacity for Nextcloud - of course, if you put in 10 billion files and 100Petabyte of data you want CPU, database and ram resources to match 🙈

yea collabora is the only one on arm64 right now

Have you found out? I was wondering the same thing

​@@golvellius6855 no

Hi, have you found any solution?

The problem with that is it's not a one size fits all video as there's many things that will be specific to your situation, depending on what your ISP is, and what your router is. Some are capable of enabling the things needed and others outright block them from happening. The basic steps are: 1) find out if your ISP will let you have a static IP. It's not essential but makes things easier. Some ISPs will just enable it if you ask, some will charge extra and some won't offer it at all, and some still will actively block external connections from coming in to home servers. 1a) if you don't get a static address, you need to set up a dynamic IP forwarding service which involves an account with a dyndns provider and a client on your server. It's not tricky but is extra config 1b) if you get a static IP address you can buy a domain name to point to that address like owncloud.myawesomedomain.me Or something 😂 3) once all that is in place you need full access to your router. Some ISPs provide their routers fully locked down making this step impossible without replacing it with your own kit (also a good idea anyway TBH) 4) You need to make the IP address of the OwnCloud server either fully static or "sorta static" where a specific address is allocated or reserved for that specific machine. The server thinks it has a dynamic address but every time it requests one it always gets the same one. 5) In your router settings you need to do "port forwarding" which allows incoming connections from the outside internet to route to the owncloud server on your LAN. Which ports you forward will depend on what services you want to expose. You set the port on the outside (let's say for example port 80 for a web page port) to go from incoming port 80 on the router to forward to port 80 on the IP address of the server on your LAN. More extensive guides on this can be found just by searching for "network port forwarding". The concept is the same if you're forwarding an owncloud server or an enterprise web server.

Easy. In the same way you opened a port on your router for Plex, you can do the same for Nextcloud.

I followed 10 different tutorials and i just can't add an external drive. It's mounted, but i can't add it via Portainer. If anyone can help us?

Depending on how you install it, Nextcloud can run fully in your own local network, absolutely!

find the system on it's own, if your pi 4 doesn't do this, you will need to update your firmware

I'm getting the same thing and have been fooling with it looking for answers since last night, did you ever get it figured out?

i'll work on putting something together, there was a few hurdles i had to figure out in my own network too cause of loopback issues

@@NovaspiritTech wow thanks, no rush, but that would be a good video, I'm sure tons of people are stuck there... I use cloudshare(d) to expose... I'm not as good as you building things but I sure try !!... or maybe you make it look easy with the power of editing :)..

you need to download a app called preview generator and run in it CLI, that's how i over came this issue

@@NovaspiritTech Thanks! I'll give it a try

Thank you, I had the same issue and stopped using nextcloud. I may revist nextcloud then 🤔

Doh. I'm a newb and have never had to modify a cron job in linux.

ha, true, there's often a ton of little things you have to configure. A tip: use the AIO docker container. It really takes care of 99% of that for you, and we keep adding things there going forward to keep the maintenance efforts to a minimum. But you're 100% right, even with the AIO - running your own server can be frustrating.

@@Nextcloud I had nextcloud installed only for storing Joplin notes lol and it was kind of annoying to maintain. I have heard a lot about AIO but I stopped hosting nextcloud. Maybe some time in near future when I have a proper server. (: Btw I would like to shout out to nerd on the street for actually showing how to fix those issues which you get after installing nextcloud.

really? i never tested it... i prob should now

@@NovaspiritTech by Pauli Järvinen

ahah i'm working on that video now, but if you want a quick start you can press the "recreate" button from portainer from nextcloud container

A tip: with the AIO docker container (easiest way to install Nextcloud) we include Borg Backup making it SUPER easy to do a regular backup. Just point it to a folder and tell it to do, say, daily incremental backups. If that folder is a NAS you mounted in, for example, you are done! We also have the Nextcloud Backup app which allows you to backup to another nextcloud instance. Say, put one at a friend's place, and you and your friend can backup to each other's instance! Hope it helps.

i will be making a deep dive video into hosing from a dynamic network. but for the mean time to answer your question your can either make a self signed cert or use letsencrypt

@@NovaspiritTech ok and how to apply that signed encrypt cert on this local nextcloud server?

its your raspberry's host name "mininextcloud" is what his raspberry was called. if you open terminal its after the @

are you running on sqlite?

What is the problem? Why is it so slow?

@@NovaspiritTech I'm using the AiO container with PostgreSQL

@@electronicstv5884every page reload is slow. I've tested FileCloud and that's fast. If you compare them by speed than NextCloud is like shit.

@@AndrewSpec Hmmm, AiO should really be the fastest possible... We do have some big performance work coming in our next release (just a few more months, stay tuned) but the hardware might also be the issue. Nextcloud does a lot, and the Docker eats quite some ram - if you get low, it becomes slow. We do our absolute best to keep it light but it's difficult.

Yup backing up is one of the most important things, this might not be the ideal setup since it's only 1 drive but all the data is backed up to another nas and cold storage. I value my life too much to not back up her photos. 🤣

i agree it is not the best approach using just 1 HDD but not many options when running on Pi, much like many other builds that uses mini pc as homelab

My thinking is this is useful as low power where 1 drive 24/7 is ideal and once a month image the drive to a backup drive so that no failure will be too extreme to get passed. Image the drive sooner for immediate use if the situation requires it

is it okay to use 2 raid 0 one on vm, one on hipervisor, and they rsynced from time to time?

Reminder that raid is NOT backup. It is nice for uptime and drive failure. Running a nightly, weekly or monthly backup is more important for a home lab than drive redundancy. Run both if you can.

@@ShoruKen sure the rule is 3-2-1....I use 3 nas for my documents but each nas has raid. that's what should be taught to people.

The problem you are having is because of the database password you are using, it's too complicated and it seems that MariaDB doesn't like it. I reduced the number of special characters and tested a few of them, Exclamation signs are not good for Maria_DB I had exactly the same issue

I was getting the same but after removing /portainer/Files/AppData/Config/Nextcloud/ files and starting over it worked (using symbols in my pw as well)