Hello,

I have around 3/4TB of photos (i store a JPG and a raw file) from maybe years. I just have them on a (external) 4TB HDD, and once a year i back them up to another (external) 4TB HDD (that i for the most part stored on the same location). I recently build a small homelab, just one old gaming pc. Now I and my family use Nextcloud notes, nextcloud contacts, nextcloud calendar, nextcloud phonetrack and more. I thought it would finally be a good time to transfer the photos to a ssd and use them with nextcloud so everyone can view the photos anyware! I run proxmox, so I want to buy one 8TB ssd (or 2x 4TB SSD Raid 0) and use it with something like truenas, to make it available for another proxmox vm where i host nextcloud.

Few questions: can nextcloud store this much? And will it cost any performance? The photos don’t really have any metadata, i just stored them in a folder structure like 2017 -> September ect, will this work with nextcloud? And the most important question: how can i make a GOOD backup system for this? I tought maybe a (encrypted) backup in the cloud, but its just expensive and i dont like the dependence. Any ideas?

Hopefully you can give me some tips and insights about how you would handle this. Thank you!

  • tvcvt@lemmy.ml
    4·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t noticed anyone else bring it up, but you mentioned in passing the possibility of using a RAID 0. I’d avoid that except in very specific circumstances. They’re potentially fine for a scratch disk type of scenario, but if any member of the array fails, the whole array is toast. The chances of a failure increases with was each disk added, so a RAID 0 is less reliable than a single disk. I definitely wouldn’t want to trust my family’s photos to it.

  • TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    You’ll have an hard time with Nextcloud for that amount of files and total size. If you plan to sync better pick up something better such as Syncthing as it is robust, it doesn’t fail and handles tons of files with little resources, NC uses a lot more RAM and once you get to around 1 TB of small files it will stop working randomly.

    If you just want a simple webUI to browser your files I would pick FileBrowser because it is very reliable and easy to setup. You can easily combine FileBrowser and Syncthing to have a cloud-like experience as well.

  • Noble Shift@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    TrueNAS is the way. Spend your $ on quality enterprise level HDDs and use ZFS for your array. You can run your Nextcloud service in a jail (docker) in the same machine. I used Free/TrueNAS for a decade (exclusively on Dell mid-tower desktops) and the only complaint I had was that I could not use DAS to shuttle data on/off.

    I also kept 32T in cold storage off-site just in case of fire / natural disaster.

    I recently broke down my last NAS (70+T) before moving onto a small sailboat full time. Now like you I am using individual HDDs and mirrored them for redundancy. I miss the hell out of my NAS.

    • alaphic@lemmy.world
      7·
      1 year ago

      It never fails; Whenever I see someone apologizing for their ‘poor English’ it’s almost always essentially flawless (or, at least, better than the majority of native speakers anyway lol)

    • wmassingham@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      ect

      *etc., short for et cetera, Latin “and the rest”.

      But native speakers do that all the time too. I don’t know how, because nobody ever says “ect” out loud.