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[Question] Am I the only dummy who likes Seafile? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Its stupid fast, reliable, and rarely has any conflicts. If it does it seems to work them out without intervention. I've tried Nextcloud including the AIO image and its just so clunky and slow. I was getting sync errors just on the simple Notes apps. Repeatedly. I mean I get why people like it, it can do way more than Seafile. But for a pure Dropbox replacement, I love it.

The fact I can reach any file on any device from any other device without syncing EVERYTHING is fantastic. I know Syncthing is also popular, but seems to require more manual settings if you want to be selective on what syncs.

I will say, I've tried and failed numerous times to get Collabora CODE and S3 storage integration to work with Seafile and that is a nightmare, at least for me. I cannot get my head around it. But standing Seafile up itself was fairly easy.

Does anyone else use it? If so, have you tried the CODE and/or multiple storage backend integrations?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I gave up on using it when they dropped postgres support

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can I ask you a question regarding that? I don't know enough about the various apps for databases. What is preferable about postgres over Mysql/Mariadb? I'm still learning, as you can tell.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For Seafile, or in general?

I couldn't say why they prefer PostgreSQL over MySQL for Seafile, but it may be just because they know PostgreSQL administration, and don't want to have to learn and remember two different sets of tools. I personally hate administering SQL DBs, and I prefer PSQL in most places because I'm most familiar with it, and even one is too much.

PostgreSQL tends to lead MySQL in feature set: they had geoqueries first, and they added a NoSQL interface a while back. OTOH, many people probably consider this sort of thing to be bloat, and may prefer MySQL/MariaDB for being more lean.

Me, I'm a SQLite guy: no server, no connection strings, no user or permission management, one file to back up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

While you raise valid points I don't really have a preference actually. I self host many services that all depend on a postgres db and it would be overkill to create an extra database just for seafile it's also really easy to manage with a nice interface like pgadmin and i found it overall reliable and it can easily scale up and down according to my needs .

However the main reason i didn't chose MySQL in the first place is simply because i don't trust oracle for keeping MySQL open-source (i'm actually surprised it stayed open source for so long) postgres has been independent for decades so i know they're not gonna give me up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I meant generally, yes. That helps me at least begin to understand it, thanks!