Nextcloud replacing OneDrive
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A friend has been using OneDrive for a couple of years for his business and with the MS outage on last week, they lost approx. 250,000 individual files. The files were found in recycle bins on multiple users accounts. All "deleted" at 130 am and of course MS blamed the customer. After many hours on the phone with MS, they were able to get most if it restored.
He is beyond frustrated and asked about replacing OneDrive with Nextcloud. Each one of his client jobs creates a folder with approx. 10Gb of data. Will Nextcloud handle this or should I steer him towards another solution? He wants to have 15 Tb of storage for his projected growth over the next 5 years and not have to worry about it until it is time for a new server. It fits the bill and requirements he needs going forward. I am looking for opinions on NC and larger files and folders. -
Nextcloud will definitely handle that. Folder size is really not a problem. We use folders far larger than that on NC, no issues.
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Tagging @jospoortvliet
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I realize 15Tb is larger than most of my NC installs but this would be the most heavily used and relied upon. There would be about 35 users.
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I just realized you said 10GB of data per folder, and 15TB total. I thought you were saying 10TB per folder, which is more where we are. 10GB is nothing, lol. That's more like our per file size.
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@scottalanmiller That's good to know. On average for your installs - what size is your /data? The largest for me has been 3Tb.
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Yeah, no issues with Nextcloud for this. I have multiple installs with about 1TB of data.
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@brandon220 said in Nextcloud replacing OneDrive:
@scottalanmiller That's good to know. On average for your installs - what size is your /data? The largest for me has been 3Tb.
Average is small, probably just 1TB or so. But we are seeing bigger ones. Just put one in for over 300 users.
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Backups will most likely be on a Synology nas. My biggest dilemma now is to use KVM or Hyper-V. I have tons of Fedora VMs on HV 2016 with ZERO issues but in the back of my mind I'm thinking of a Fedora KVM host and Fedora guests for NC and Nginx proxy.
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@brandon220 said in Nextcloud replacing OneDrive:
Backups will most likely be on a Synology nas. My biggest dilemma now is to use KVM or Hyper-V. I have tons of Fedora VMs on HV 2016 with ZERO issues but in the back of my mind I'm thinking of a Fedora KVM host and Fedora guests for NC and Nginx proxy.
All of my production Nextcloud systems are on Hyper-V. Half are CentOS 7 because they have been around for years now. Long before I got comfortable with Fedora.
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@brandon220 said in Nextcloud replacing OneDrive:
Backups will most likely be on a Synology nas. My biggest dilemma now is to use KVM or Hyper-V. I have tons of Fedora VMs on HV 2016 with ZERO issues but in the back of my mind I'm thinking of a Fedora KVM host and Fedora guests for NC and Nginx proxy.
Honestly, either is just fine. We use KVM most of the time, but Hyper-V often, too. We are doing all our new deployments in KVM. It's just easier all around. The gap in ease of use between Hyper-V and KVM being so big. No special expertise needed for KVM. Just use the native web GUI for management and away you go. And simple SSH access for CLI should you desire that.
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@jaredbusch Everytime I set up NC, I always "default" to a 3Tb VM but never use that much space. Don't know why or how I started that.
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@brandon220 said in Nextcloud replacing OneDrive:
Backups will most likely be on a Synology nas. My biggest dilemma now is to use KVM or Hyper-V. I have tons of Fedora VMs on HV 2016 with ZERO issues but in the back of my mind I'm thinking of a Fedora KVM host and Fedora guests for NC and Nginx proxy.
Hyper-V is perfectly fine running Fedora workloads. Why change when there is no business or technical reason to do so?
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@travisdh1 said in Nextcloud replacing OneDrive:
@brandon220 said in Nextcloud replacing OneDrive:
Backups will most likely be on a Synology nas. My biggest dilemma now is to use KVM or Hyper-V. I have tons of Fedora VMs on HV 2016 with ZERO issues but in the back of my mind I'm thinking of a Fedora KVM host and Fedora guests for NC and Nginx proxy.
Hyper-V is perfectly fine running Fedora workloads. Why change when there is no business or technical reason to do so?
Might be a brand new customer deployment, so "change" might be not what we normally think of it being. If this customer has other Hyper-V that they are sticking with, yeah, I'd stick with it.
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@jaredbusch Good to know. They are a MS only business so I will probably stick with HV. I have set up KVM on Fedora and use virt-manager on a Fedora desktop to manage but never Cockpit for management.
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@brandon220 said in Nextcloud replacing OneDrive:
I have set up KVM on Fedora and use virt-manager on a Fedora desktop to manage but never Cockpit for management.
I have that at home and a potential client that will move to RHEL 7 with KVM.
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@travisdh1 I was 99% sure that I was going with HV but I like reassurance.
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@brandon220 said in Nextcloud replacing OneDrive:
@jaredbusch Good to know. They are a MS only business so I will probably stick with HV. I have set up KVM on Fedora and use virt-manager on a Fedora desktop to manage but never Cockpit for management.
MS only... till they go to Nextcloud. Not all MS anymore
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@brandon220 said in Nextcloud replacing OneDrive:
Backups will most likely be on a Synology nas. My biggest dilemma now is to use KVM or Hyper-V. I have tons of Fedora VMs on HV 2016 with ZERO issues but in the back of my mind I'm thinking of a Fedora KVM host and Fedora guests for NC and Nginx proxy.
This is how I'm currently backing up my Nextcloud.
At work, on my Hyper-V host, I'm using Altaro to backup the VM.
At home, on my KVM host, I'm only backing the data and database.Backup
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/13/admin_manual/maintenance/backup.html
Restore
https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/13/admin_manual/maintenance/restore.html -
Not to threadjack...who's has the latest/most current how-to-install guide for NC?
