@gedvondur What would your suggestion for a LAN NAS in the 4-16 TB range be, HW & SW? I'd prefer smaller, quieter, and lower power consumption.

Synology's been one option. I have a Turris Omnia, which has a NAS enclosure kit available.

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@gedvondur Roles include backing up linux and macos systems (possibly Android and IOS), media server, PXEboot / VM image server would be nice to have.

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@craigmaloney
You could set up a cloud server on a free tier and sync files via ssh secured with keys. Works on both platforms. Not much to secure if ssh is your only service and you are using "key only" access.

Or do the same using dynamic DNS to a home server.

@craigmaloney
For the text files, you could use something like mercurial, fossil or git over ssh.

If syncing is the key, then rsync over ssh is supported on both platforms.

@bill I already have that and frankly, no, that is not what I would like to do here.

@craigmaloney Back in the days when ownCloud was super slow (remember, it's PHP) I switched to https://seafile.com/ and am still happy with that.
It is less powerful than NextCloud and unfortunately does not federate, but handles file syncing and sharing quite well.

For not needing a server at all you could also try SyncThing, but I don't have any recent experience with that.

@craigmaloney Seafile's Android app supports automatic photo upload from your phone. Also its versioning mechanism is somehow adapted from git, so it shouldn't mess up your text files too badly.

@craigmaloney
Ive been using MegaSync🤷🏽♀️
https://www.techspot.com/downloads/6238-megasync.html

@denikombucha Thanks, but I'm not sure I want to buy into Mega's ecosystem. 😁

@craigmaloney
That’s fair

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Syncthing or Seafile

@kemonine Is it? Bleh. 😁

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I use simpletasks with syncthing to run my life. Works beautifully. I have one node that is always on, and with it running it acts almost exactly like Dropbox.

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Simpletasks can sync to a 'local only' directory that a separate program syncs for you. That's how I have my syncthing set up.

@craigmaloney Doesn't it handle plain WebDAV? That's exposed by both nextCloud ans Seafile.

@craigmaloney I need this too :/

@craigmaloney hmm @nextcloud [1] and Tresorit [2] are worth a look.

[1] https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-dropbox-google-drive-and-google-docs
[2] https://tresorit.com