So I have a NUC with Proxmox as the primary OS and OPNsense in a VM for my home network. I’ve been trying to move away from Google services but would still like to use them as a back up solution. Would it make sense to use Nextcloud in a VM as a replacement and use Rclone to encrypt and backup my files to Google Drive? Or should I use a NAS OS like Open Media Vault instead?
I’ll also mention that I have an empty SSD that I can passthrough and that my primary draw to Nextcloud is that they have a Windows desktop syncing app like Google Drive does which makes things familiar and convenient. I don’t plan on having my Nextcloud instance exposed to the web but might setup a Wireguard tunnel into the local network in the future.
I was also choosing between seafile and nextcloud for a syncing and sharing solution. The no host access to files was a deal breaker for me. Having settled in with nextcloud for a year I would say it’s still worth a test drive. The web ui is sluggish, but syncing seems fine. It definitely hits the ceiling for read/write speed in my environment, and the windows app picks up changes in the sync directory in seconds. I haven’t methodically tested how long it takes for a change made on Android to propagate to the PC, but going on memory from real world use it would be a few minutes at most.