cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/63067

Hello!

I recently had issues with my self-hosted instance of Nextcloud so I started looking for an alternative to it.

I would like something that could allow me to make a local network of shared files between devices I choose, if that makes any sense.

I stumbled upon Syncthing but it doesen’t seem what I had in mind: I understand that it replicates folders between devices, but I am looking for a way to distribuite files between machines. Again, like Nextcloud but without a central server to rely to.

Do you know if something of that sort exists?

Or if you have any other solution?

Thank you.

P.S. I am posting it here because it seems like some sort of self-hosting, but maybe I will cross-post it to the decentralized comunity.

    • Raziel
      2·
      3 years ago

      For personal use or trusted peers Syncthing is just AMAZING, and they keep adding new usefull features like encription for storage on non-trusted devices

    • BlueTomatoOP
      0·
      4 years ago

      Uhm I understood that Syncthing works by copying folders between machines and keeping them synchronized.

      Now, what I was looking for is a software that records that, say, machine A has a file, tells that to machine B and retrieves the file only after an explicit B request.

      Does Syncthing do that?

        • BlueTomatoOP
          1·
          4 years ago

          You can choose refuse things from the folder/drive and you must always configure in each computer individually like the nextcloud sync client.

          I was missing this feature.

          I’ll read more carefully the documentation then.

          Tank you