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Syncthing is a dream.

Photos sync'd from phone to laptop making pics taken instantly available to share via desktop apps. Also add in the NAS and you have three copies before you consider RAID or BTRFS or anything.

Replace Dropbox with syncthing and you have multiple folders and can choose which folders go to which devices.

Put a NAS at a second location and you have the ability to power up and power down the remote NAS whenever you want to make a backup and syncthing will handle the rest.

Add in any one of the UIs over the files on the NAS and you replace most of the household use of things like Google files or drive.

About the only thing I would like and don't have, is syncthing with an object storage backend for cloud based folders fully under your control.

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> Photos sync'd from phone to laptop making pics taken instantly available to share via desktop apps.

This isn't my experience at all. I find that normally Syncthing has stopped working, and I have to open up the app, find the remote host (which says "Disconnected" next to it with no further explanation) and tap around the UI at random until it decides to connect and sync.

Garage (https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/) gets pretty close for object storage. It’s built with mixing high/low latency links and replication between multiple hosts. Unfortunately it’s not really built for end-users, but devs, so there’s no ui or anything like that.

Yup. Garage is painless to set up and, unlike Minio, is designed for "small scale", self-hosted use cases where your nodes may not have identical storage and compute. One current caveat of Garage, compared to Minio, is that anonymous access is not supported. (Patches welcome!) This means you can't easily generate or share links to files in a bucket.

I personally use Garage for locally testing things that run against the S3 API. It's very easy to run the single binary directly. No need for containers, but of course that is also an option, and it's very easy to containerize since you realistically only need to run a statically linked binary and mount a TOML file somewhere.

What I like about Dropbox is all files are available (browsable) from their ios app. Do you happen to use a similar app for remote browsing?

I use Tailscale to make my home network available from my phone, and then an app called Cx File Explorer to be able to fully navigate the file systems involved and view or download any file from it.

I also use Plex to get all media on my phone, and that's actually my primary interface and so I very seldom ever need to ensure I'm connected to Tailscale or browsing, as what I need to access via phone is not usually files, it's usually media. If it is files, I tend to have a laptop on me and that also has Tailscale, so also benefits from just accessing it all as if it's local.

The only part of this I'm likely to change is Tailscale as I really dislike not being able to register account to my email and I don't have a Google, Microsoft or Apple account, and don't wish to use GitHub for this - and I haven't seen a super simple self-hosted OIDC solution for my own email (I wish Fastmail would provide one)

This is my main gripe with Tailscale too, at least for personal use. What are you thinking of using instead? Headscale?

I've been looking at https://www.defined.net/ as an alternative.

And also saw this on HN a month or so ago https://blog.janissary.xyz/posts/tailscale-oidc-authelia-car...

That blog post is quite handy, thank you.

I've never used it, but there's a syncthing app that doesn't sync anything but allows you to browse what's in the share: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.syncthing.lite/

Actually I am on iOS and this is an Android solution. But from one thing I found another and finally got to Resilio Sync (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/resilio-sync/id1126282325) which might be a good solution.

I tried Resilio (formerly BitTorrent Sync) years ago and it was quite slow and unreliable, but indeed there are no good Linux + Mobile solutions in this space, so you have have to sacrifice something.

Not entirely true, Syncthing works perfectly for Linux + Android

This thread is about remote browsing. I already to your comment above so you should be aware SyncThing doesn't support this.

This is abandoned - the github project is archived and no releases since 2019.

Couldn’t you do an independent “NAS to Glacier” (or similar)?

Genuinely interested as I was planning to spend some time this Xmas season along your lines and I am missing the same point.

I'm currently using a remote NAS as my backup to my local NAS.

At 35TB of data it will take a lot of time and money for me to back this with S3 or Glacier... so mostly my object storage scenario is to accelerate and make more available a working set of files I use everywhere and often, rather than to backup / sync the majority of files.

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