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Seafile is an enterprise-ready free and open source alternative to DropBox or NextCloud for file syncing and sharing

Seafile provides very fast file syncing. Tens of thousands of small files can be synced in a minute. It does what it does very well, without including an entire kitchen sync of extras. Seafile’s built-in collaborative document, SeaDoc, make it easy ...continues

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David Pinkerton 1y ago

Looking to move to this from Nextcloud. How have you found it? I use the Nextcloud as a Snap package and the included Apache reverse proxy is bossy and makes too hard to host other services on the same server. Storing and sharing files is about all we do with it so Seafile seems a much better fit.

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unknown 1y ago

seafile is shit because it stores your files in their own format, locking you in

nextcloud stores your files as they are

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David Pinkerton 11mo ago

I'm trialing Seafile anyway and share your reservations about a proprietary storage format even though it has some benefits. I came across FileRun. Have you used it? Maybe a better alternative?

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David Pinkerton 11mo ago

FileRun isn't open source though.

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David Pinkerton 11mo ago

I think that I'll do incremental backups of my Seafile libraries using WebDAV mounts to ensure raw files are backed up and avoid relying on Seafile for restoration.