At work, I’m stuck using the SharePoint and Microsoft 365 environment. I must say, I was never a fan of MS and still I fear this monstrous monopoly that can dictate when its good weather and bad weather.
Yet, SharePoint’s approach to file versioning and restoring and its integration withe the client OS system is robust. I was wondering if something similar could be implemented in the KDE-Plasma plus Truenas world? Ideally, this system would:
a) create incremental backup of my Documents folder on my desktop PC (e.g. Rsync type PULL)
b) as a minimum I would want some sort of GUI even via browser like SharePoint that gives me access to the file versions and allow me to restore them, or even better, down a copy of that version so I can check before I restore.
c) as a plus, I would be able to right click in a file in Plasma Dolphin and download/restore a previous version.
I know that c) would be luxury/asking to much so I would settle with a) + b). Is this something that can be done, maybe with some App in the Truenas Scale catalogue?
Sharepoint and robust in the same sentance; I assume you talk about online only usage? You can’t seriously be talking about desktop sync and use the word SharePoint and robust in the same sentance?!
Anyway, back to topic.
So what you are describing is doable with a Nextcloud instance. I don’t use TrueNAS for apps, only storage, so I don’t know how stable the current implementation is.
I had Nextcloud installed up to about 1 year ago and was a nightmare. Almost every update broke the installation. Also, Nextcloud has become a bit of a beast, which is fine if you need all those bells and whistles it offers. Something more task specific and reliable would work best.
Then you did something very wrong during you setup.
Because I run it like that since 3 years and never had a broken update. If you can’t handle that, paying someone might be the better idea.
Could not agree more. Unfortunatly, despite OCIS there is no alternative. And OCIS is Kubernetes, which makes it an even bigger beast IMHO.
