• JoeKrogan@lemmy.world
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    No if I have to keep fixing it , it is not worth my time.

    I installed owncloud years ago and came to the same conclusion and just got rid of it. I use syncthing nowadays though its not the same thing.

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      Yep, I’ve adapted all of my setup to syncthing, and never looked back.

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        Any guidance on this? I looked into Synthing at one time to backup Android phones and got overwhelmed very quickly. I’d love to use it in a similar fashion to NextCloud for syncing between various computers too.

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          It really wasn’t all that complicated for me. Install the client on two devices set a share up on one device go to the other device Hit add device put the share ID in. Go back to the first devices admin and say allow the share

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          Well, it works in a different way than NextCloud. You don’t have a server, instead you just make a share between your computers and they are all peers.

          It takes some getting used to the idea, but it’s actually much simpler than NextCloud.

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            So if I wanted to sync photos from my phone to the computer, then delete the local copies on my phone to save space, that would not work?

            E: But keep the copies on the computer, of course

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      I’m absolutely at that point with Nextcloud. I kind of didn’t want to go the syncthing route, but I’ll probably give it a shot anyway since none of the NC alternatives seem any better.

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        I tried nc it for a while I would have taken me till the end of days to import all of my files.

        I suspect I could keep it running by doing lockstep backups and updates. But it was just so incredibly slow.

        I just want something that would give me remote access to my files with meta information about my files and a good search index.

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    I dunno what you guys are doing that makes your nextcloud die without touching it. Mine runs happily until I decide to update it, and that usually goes fine, too. I don’t use docker for it, tho.

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      I dunno what you guys are doing that makes your nextcloud die without touching it

      Mine runs happily until I decide to update it

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        I swear every update ends up breaking it and putting it into maintenance mode for me. This would then lead to 1-2 hours of going through previously visited links to try and figure out what fixed it previously. For me personally, it seems like it’s usually mariadb requiring a manual update that fixes it but it’s always a little scary.

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          I always run occ upgrade and occ db:add-missing-indices after a package upgrade, just to be sure that I do not miss any database migrations. Using Archlinux I wrote a pacman hook so that it happens automatically.

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    In my own personal experience, Nextcloud;

    • Needs constant attention to prevent falling over
    • Administration is a mess
    • Takes far too long to get used to its ‘little ways’
    • Basics like E2EE don’t work
    • Sync works when it feels like it
    • Updating feels like russian roulette
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      Updating from my experience is not Russian roulette. It always requires manual intervention and drives me mad. Half the time I just wget the new zip and copy my config file and restart nginx lol.

      Camera upload has been fantastic for Android, but once in a while it shits its brains out thinking there are conflicts when there are none and I have to tell it to keep local AND keep server side to make them go away.

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        The update without fail tells me it doesn’t work due to non-standard folders being present. So, I delete ‘temp’. After the upgrade is done, it tells me that ‘temp’ is missing and required.

        Other than that it’s quite stable though… Unless you dare to have long file names or folder depths.

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      It’s like…having a toddler LMAO my little digital toddler lololol

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    Only complaints I have with Nextcloud are that it’s slow and updates suck over the web interface. But apart from that it has been reliable. I’m not running it through Docker. In fact, my installation is so old that the database tables still have an oc_ prefix.

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      You might want to try migrating your nextcloud instance to postgres instead of mysql/mariadb. Many people says they get some big performance boost. I’m going to try it myself next weekend to see if it’s true.

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      +1 this is exactly my experience. My install must be 5-6 years old at this point and its on the rails. I’ve braved many php updates…

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    I run it and mariaDB in docker and they run perfectly when left alone, but everything breaks horribly if I try to do an update. I recently figured out that you need to do updates for NC in steps, and docker (unRAID’s, specifically) defaults to jumping to the latest version. I think I figured out how to specify version now so fingers crossed I won’t destroy it the next time I do updates.

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      This is probably what I’m doing wrong. I’m using linuxserver’s docker which should be okay to auto update, but it just continuously degrades over time with updates until it becomes non-functional. Random login failures, logs failing to load, file thumbnails disappearing, the goddamn Collabora office docker that absolutely refuses to work for more than one week, etc.

      I just nuke the NC docker and database and start from scratch every year or so.

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        You absolutely need to move from patch to patch and cannot just do a multiple version jump safely. You also need to validate the configs between versions, especially major release updates or you risk breaking. New features and optimizations happen and you also may need to change our update your reverse proxy configuration on update, or modify db table configuration (just puking this from memory as I’ve had to do it before). I don’t know that there’s automation for each one of those steps.

        Because of that, I run nextcloud in a VM and install it from the binary package. I wrote a shell script that handles downloading, moving the files, updating permissions and copying the old config forward, symlinking and doing the upgrade. Then all I have to do is log in as administrator, check out the admin dashboard and make sure there aren’t new things I have to address in the status page. It’s a pain, but my nextcloud uses external db and redis and PHP caching so it’s not an easy out of the box setup. But it’s been solid for a long time once I adopted using this script.

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        For me everything works fine since years, EXCEPT collabora. I use onlyoffice now, it’s much faster and very stable

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        Yeah I don’t like auto upgrades. Everyone says it’s fine but that’s not my experience.

        My stuff isn’t public facing so I’m not worried about 0-days

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    When I first deployed Nextcloud, it was just like this. Random crashes, lockups, weird user signin issues, slow and clunky.

    But one day it just started working and was super stable. I didn’t do anything, still not sure what fixed it lol.

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    I have nextcloud running since nearly 5 years and it never failed once. Only dowtime is when the backup fails and somehow maintenance mode is still enabled (technically not a crash)

    For those interested: Running in docker with mariadb in a stack, checking updates with watchtower everyday and pulling from stable, backups with borg(matic)

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    I’ve been running nextcloud since before it was nextcloud. Was owncloud then moved to next cloud.

    Another user put it best. It always feels 75% complete. Sync isn’t fast, gives errors that self correct when restarting the all. Most plugins are even more janky or feel super barren.

    I wanted to like it so much but I stopped being able to trust most plugins which meant I had dedicated apps for those things and used nextcloud only for file sync.

    If you only want file sync then seafile is vastly superior so that’s what I now have.

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      Sounds like a common software issue. All the features where developed to 80%, and then moved on to the next feature. Leaving that last, difficult, time consuming, 20% open and unfinished.

      It’s the difference between more corporate or Enterprise projects and FOSS projects in a lot of ways. Even once that project matures and becomes a more corporate product the same attitude towards completeness and correctness tends to persist.

      (not saying foss is bad, just that the bar tends to be lower in my experience of building software, for many legitimate reasons).

      It’s “cultural” in a way depending on the project.

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        LibreOffice wants to call with broken rendering on Windows, but the changelog mentions new tasty features. But FOSS can do it, Debian can. Those project managers should learn from their approach, whatever it is.

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      Yeah, I wish Nextcloud focused more on the file manager side of their applications. I was using it on my TrueNAS instance and it seems like an unfinished product. E2EE is not enabled by default and looks like their implementation is not perfect either.

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    I’ve setup Nextcloud but have done next to nothing with it.

    My Lemmy instance gives me the most problems, but it’s also the only publicly available service I run. Mostly the issue is it seems to have a memory leak that forces me to restart it every few days.

    Everything else has been completely rock solid for me, running on a mini pc (formerly a pi4 until I wanted to start doing stuff with Jellyfin and needed more power for transcoding) on OpenSUSE Leap all in docker containers. Makes it insanely easy to move stuff. I had no issues basically just copying the docker-compose files and data and bringing them up even when switching architectures.

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    Always works great for me.

    I just run it (behind haproxy on a separate public host) in docker compose w/ a redis container and a hosted postgres instance.

    Automatically upgrade minor versions daily by pulling new images. Manually upgrade major versions by updating the compose file.

    Literally never had a problem in 4 years.

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      I’m still too container stupid to understand the right way to do this. I’m running it in docker under kubernetes and sometimes I don’t update nextcloud for a long time then I do a container update and it’s all fucked because of incompatible php versions of some shit.

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        I don’t remember much about how to use kubernetes but if you can specify a tag like nextcloud:28 instead of nextcloud:latest you should have a safer time with upgrades. Then make sure you always upgrade all the way before moving to a newer major version, this is crucial.

        There are varying degrees of version specificity available: https://hub.docker.com/_/nextcloud/tags

        Make sure you’re periodically evaluating your site with https://scan.nextcloud.com/ and following all of the recommended best practices.

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        Kubernetetes is crazy complex when comparing to docker-compose. It is built to solve scaling problems us self-hosters don’t have.

        First learn a few docker commands, set some environment variables, mount some volumes, publish a port. Then learn docker-compose.

        Tutorials are plenty, if those from docker.com still exist they’re likely still sufficient.

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    Never had a single functional problem with Nextcloud, other than the fact that it’s oppressively slow with the amount of files I’ve shoved into it. Mind you I also don’t use MySQL/MariaDB which I consider a garbage-tier DB. Despite Postgres not being the “Recommended DB” for Nextcloud it works perfectly for me. Maybe that’s the difference.

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      Postgres is the standard db in the AIO container nextcloud has put out as their standard.

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    Installed it in k3s and then pulled up the Android app but all it does is say every single file is a duplicate and overload my notifications tray while not uploading anything

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    Am i the only one left who doesn’t want a snap docker Kubernetes container and just installs nextcloud in a normal way and never had any problems?

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        For me it’s the opposite. I tried to use nextcloud for years, installing the normal way, and it always broke for no reason. I just started using it on docker and it has been perfect, fingers crossed.

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          Interesting, when I used docker on a proxmox build, it would give me trouble. Once I installed it the normal way on an Ubuntu build, it was good to go.

          I wonder why that is?

          Fingers crossed that it continues to work for you in the current configuration!

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            Because when you’re using Docker, you shouldn’t use Proxmox. And to be fair, I don’t understand why people are using Proxmox at all.

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    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

    Fewer Letters More Letters
    CA (SSL) Certificate Authority
    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    LAMP Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP stack for webhosting
    LXC Linux Containers
    PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
    RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
    SBC Single-Board Computer
    SSH Secure Shell for remote terminal access
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    nginx Popular HTTP server

    10 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 10 acronyms.

    [Thread #392 for this sub, first seen 1st Jan 2024, 02:35] [FAQ] [Full list] [Contact] [Source code]

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    None. I don’t make a habit of keeping “misbehaving” apps around. If I can’t get to the bottom of a specific issue that app is getting the boot from my stable.