Nextcloud

Would it be reasonable to expect a Raspberry Pi 4 to run Nextcloud and manage a photo backup of +100 Gb?

The Raspberry Pi is from 2020, running Raspbian, and it was used as an intervalometer with the help of gphoto2 (meaning no great efforts were demanded from it).

The pictures are on two external hard drives

*1Tb WesternDigital SATA (bought second hand, but "like new" according to the sales guy.

*320Gb WesternDigital SATA (inherited from an AcerOne laptop once I realized it could not even handle lubuntu)

My very limited knowledge on the subject tells me I need to:

*Get rid of Raspbian and install Raspberry Pi OS

*Install Nextcloud (and upgrade an existing account)

*Upload +100 Gb

Would the aforementioned steps allow me to access the files on Fedora/Kubuntu (two separate hard drives on a desktop) and openSUSUE (on a laptop)?

I’m also testing a filen.io account and a sync.com account. All three services (NextCloud, Filen, and Sync) work as I expect on an Ipad.

Filen and Nextcloud have Linux applications, and both have been working without problems on test backups of 100 pictures.

Sync is CANADIAN but not Linux friendly (I tried Wine, didn’t work, gave up)… I’m accessing a free account via Firefox only, so I’m not counting on them for this journey.

So, long story short, I want to back up my files (mostly pictures/scans and some pfd documents) on someone else's computer and locally.

Now the question. Can anyone recommend a guide to achieve what I want?

I’m a cook by trade without any technical (software/hardware) training who has been using Linux (openSUSE, Ubuntu, Arch, Mint) since 2012. Please forgive any mistakes on terminology.

I included a picture of my intervalo-Frankenstein-meter from 2020.

Thank You.

Moin,

Überlege auf dem Server wo Nextcloud läuft, ollama zu installieren und eventuell damit dem DeepSeek Modell zu betreiben. Hat das jemand gemacht? LocalAI geht, aber da sind mir die Modelle zu ungenau.

I'm just curious as I don't have a need for it outside my personally use as of now.

I know that gsuite and office365 has been jacking up their prices and it might be a time to make nextcloud shine.

services:
  db:
    image: mariadb
    restart: always
    command: --transaction-isolation=READ-COMMITTED --log-bin=binlog --binlog-format=ROW
    volumes:
      - ./mysql:/var/lib/mysql
    environment:
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=supersecretpassword
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextclouddb
      - MYSQL_USER=nextclouduser
      - MYSQL_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD='yes'

  redis:

    image: redis

    restart: always

    command: redis-server --requirepass supersecretpassword2

  app:
    image: nextcloud:27
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 8080:80
    links:
      - db
      - redis
    volumes:
      - ./html:/var/www/html
    environment:
      - MYSQL_PASSWORD=supersecretpassword
      - MYSQL_DATABASE=nextclouddb
      - MYSQL_USER=nextclouduser
      - MYSQL_HOST=db
      - REDIS_HOST_PASSWORD=supersecretpassword2
    depends_on:
      - db
      - redis
  cron:
    image: nextcloud:27
    restart: always
    volumes:
      - ./html:/var/www/html
    entrypoint: /cron.sh
    depends_on:
      - db

To use this you need docker-compose installed. Once thats installed create a nextcloud folder and copy in this file as docker-compose.yaml. Once you are in the working directory run docker-compose up -d

Is it possible to configure nextcloud to automatically update? At least for minor, non-breaking changes, or when all apps are compatible?

I'm not comfortable with running a public seever without the latest security updates.

If nextcloud doesn't do auto updates, is this something that managed nextcloud service providers usually do for you on a paid plan?

I was looking for a way to use a reverse Proxy with my nextcloud snap install, this guid was what I needed. https://github.com/nextcloud-snap/nextcloud-snap/wiki/Putting-the-snap-behind-a-reverse-proxy

First change, what ports nextcloud listens to: sudo snap set nextcloud ports.http=81 ports.https=444

Install haproxy and append this to the config file in /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg

backend nextcloud-http                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
        mode http                                                                                                      
        balance roundrobin                                                                                                                                                                                                                    
        option forwardfor                                  
        option httpchk HEAD /
        http-check send ver HTTP/1.1 hdr Host localhost
        server nextcloud 127.0.0.1:81 check                                                                            
        timeout connect 4s                                 
        timeout server 4s                 
                                                           
backend nextcloud-https                                    
        mode tcp                                                                                                       
        balance roundrobin
        option httpchk HEAD /                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
        http-check send ver HTTP/1.1 hdr Host localhost                                                                                                                                                                                       
        option ssl-hello-chk                   
        server nextcloud 127.0.0.1:444 check                                                                                                                                                                                                  
        timeout connect 4s                                                                                             
        timeout server 4s      

And this for the front end, don't forget to change to your domain. nextcloud.example.org

frontend http                                                                                                          
        bind *:80                                                                                                      
        mode http                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              
        acl host_nextcloud hdr(host) -i <domain name>                                                                  
        use_backend nextcloud-http if host_nextcloud       
        timeout client 4s                                                                                              
                                                                                                                       
frontend https                                             
        bind *:443                                         
        mode tcp                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                       
        tcp-request inspect-delay 5s                       
        tcp-request content accept if { req_ssl_hello_type 1 }
                                                                                                                       
        acl host_nextcloud req_ssl_sni -i <domain name>                                                                
        use_backend nextcloud-https if host_nextcloud                                                                  
        timeout client 4s

Check if everything is correct with sudo haproxy -c -f /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg and start it.

sudo systemctl enable haproxy
sudo systemctl start haproxy

just do the lets-encrypt stuff again: nextcloud.enable-https And it worked for me(Apache)

Upgraded to Version Nextcloud Hub 5 (27.0.0) and Open Office has stopped working. Also updated Open office, but documents fail to load. When selecting files, all it does is download.

Uninstalled Open Office and reinstalled does not help. Not familiar with any command line work on Nextcloud, so hopefully there is a simple fix.

Help appreciated.

Do you use the default location for the database? I found a cool middle ground that allowed me to run my operating system and snap off a ssd and the database on a slower hdd.
I installed nextcloud with snap and did the setup.
When everything was how I wanted it to be, I search for the datas location
(for me:/var/snap/nextcloud/common/nextcloud/data). Then I created a /data on my hdd and binded it to nextclouds /data folder.
My fstab now looks like this:
/data /var/snap/nextcloud/common/nextcloud/data none bind 0 0
You only have to rebuild the database:

nextcloud.occ files:cleanup
nextcloud.occ files:scan

!!! Important, move your data first to the new location.(I think you won't lose it, but you cannot access it)