Self-hosted Alternative to Dropbox

[Lolis, John]

Many thanks to all who offered suggestions.  I currently have ownCloud set
up, and it appears to fit our needs.  I still wanted to set up Seafile and
Pydio as well just to evaluate them, but too many things reared their ugly
heads over the past week.  I'll definitely revisit them, though... maybe
even install one of them at home.

Thanks again and have a most excellent weekend!


John Lolis
Coordinator of Computer Systems
White Plains Public Library
100 Martine Avenue
White Plains, NY  10601

tel: 1.914.422.1497
fax: 1.914.422.1452

http://whiteplainslibrary.org/


*I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I
go into the other room and read a book.*     Groucho Marx

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 4:00 AM, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain at biblibre.com>
wrote:

> Le 16/09/2015 20:46, Christian Pietsch a écrit :
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> if you want a straight replacement for Dropbox, go for Seafile:
>> https://www.seafile.com/en/download/ (free download, open source).
>> It looks and feels like Dropbox, and runs smoothly even on a first
>> generation Raspberry Pi. Which cannot be said for OwnCloud which I
>> tried before that. OwnClound suffers from a severe case of featuritis
>> trying to be everything to everyone.
>>
> I confirm that seafile is great. You can use it hosted by seafile, or on
> your own server.
> Depending on your skills & needs, you can choose what is the best option
> for you.
> For biblibre, we have our own seafile server, it's great !
>
> There is a difference between seafile & dropbox : in seafile you can
> define many "repositories", that you can synchronize (or not) individually.
> But if you synchronize one, you synchronize it fully. In Dropbox, you have
> one "repository" and you select the directories you want to synchronize
> inside this repository.
>
> Once you've understood this difference, it's easy to use & powerful.
>
>> Cheers,
>> Christian
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:34:25AM -0400, Lolis, John wrote:
>>
>>> In our teen space the librarians have been using DropBox on the service
>>> desk computer and the public access computers and laptops.  I have
>>> nothing
>>> against DropBox, but I am against having the network's bandwidth getting
>>> eaten up when someone decides to copy a video file to the DropBox folder.
>>>
>>> So I'm looking for a self-hosted alternative to DropBox, one that could
>>> be
>>> accessed by anyone on the private, wired network as well as by those on
>>> our
>>> public wireless network (with restricted access, of course).  It would
>>> also
>>> be great if there's iOS and Android support.
>>>
>>> So far, I found this which seems the most promising:
>>> https://owncloud.org/.
>>>
>>> Does anyone out there have any experience with it or have other solutions
>>>
>>
>
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