Hi guys,
and soon merry christmas everyone.
Not sure if this is the correct place for this question, but I got to ask…
I’m looking to get rid of google photos and apple icloud for photo/video sync and backup!
I’ve got a 8tb hard drive in my windows NAS I would like to use for this purpose, my HA instance is running on this server in a virtual environment.
Do you have any recommendations to software and apps to use for this?
Thanks!
I created my own nextcloud instance and made it remotely available. No involvment of Home Assistant.
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Thanks Burningstone! It looks very promising!
Does it cost anything to host at home? Does it consume a lot of cpu/ram? I would love to try the VM 
I have both a VPN on my router (openvpn, slow but stable) and on HA (wireguard, fast and stable!) and was thinking this would be a good way to access files but most importantly backup photos from iphone
Im running NextcloudPi on a RPi4 2GB, with a 1TB SSD.
CPU usage less then 5%.
NextcloudPi is special made for RPi, super easy installer!!!
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Installing a VM now, looks good so far! Impressive that it can run a rpi! Fabolous!
No, it’s free if you host it yourself. Can’t tell you more about cpu/ram, most of the time it’s just idle.
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Fantastic.
Just installed the vm downloaded from their site. Just one thing:
my OS is Windows 10 running Vmplayer. I have 1 SSD that is soon full, that contains HA VM and now Nextcloud VM. Is there a easy way to put file on my second hard drive (8tb drive) instead of the SSD?
It always choose the SSD because VM player is installed on the C: drive, so everything is correct, but I should use the the other hard drive for backups
Sorry, not familiar with VM player. I use Proxmox and store everything to a separate NAS.
OK it’s installed.
But when I go locally to xxx.xxx.xxx.114 it only works with http and shows a apache config website.
I don’t want to have it available on the internet, but use vpn to connect to nextcloud “locally”.
Do you know how to proceed?
If you connect through VPN, you will be in your home network and should be able to access it with the same local address as you do now. No need for https in your local network.
Agree!
Maybe there is some configuration to do, but my desktop app can’t connect (I’ve not made any users yet, is that needed?), same for my iphone. I do get a apache website when hitting http//local-ip.
I assume there is some more stuff to setup to get it to work
I’m also running NextcloudPi as home server on a Raspberry Pi 4 4GB with a 500GB SSD on USB.
Works excellently!
At least the NextcloudPi version needs to be activated right after install, maybe there is something similar to be done with the VM version? Connect to port 4443 of the ip address with a browser.
Looking for the same.
Do you have multiple mirrored SSD? How is the redundant is done in Nextcloud?
No, I use just 1 SSD. (I also backup everything on a external HDD, and my TimeCapsule) so I have some redundant options. I don’t know if NC have this option…
I also have only 1 SSD plugged in. NCPi does automatic, regular backups of config, database and data to my NAS.
There are examples with two USB disks attached, often 1 SSD as the main and a HDD as backup.
I have a setup where the Raspberry only boots from the SD disk and /rootfs is on the SSD (data on second partition). Big gain in performance.
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if it’s an Android phone just use Syncthing. Open source and secure.
Up and running with nextcloud on my server. The VM is stored on a HDD because of capacity issues on my ssd. But does anyone know if it’s easy to connect external storage and copy all files/pictures/videos to that device for backup?
Still running nextcloud on my server. Reinstalled it on a separate partition on my harddrive. It’s kind of slow, so web browsing the pictures is really a character building operation.
But it works, and my google photo storage is full so I’m now depending on nextcloud for my backups
For a while I also uploaded the nextcloud vm to mega, but then I lost free storage there as well. Also not the best place to keep pictures, videos etc.
Anyone had success with connecting a external harddrive and doing a backup of everything to that?
I mean, I could shut down the vm, copy my folder to the external harddrive… and finished. But manual labour is kind of something we don’t want to do.