NextCloud

Hi All,

I have posted on this before, but never could quite get to getting it 
done because life gets n the way.  Isn't that the truth? ;-)

I think I am finally at a place where I can start working on this 
project & get it going.  Will likely be in pieces, so a little at a time.

Based on suggestions, research, etc. I think I have finally settled on 
NextCloud over OwnCloud & am still planning to install on a RHEL-type 
server.  I inherited my father-in-laws old desktop, which I think will 
work for what I need it to do.  It is 8 GB of RAM (might be late 
dual/quad core or early i-series)& I plan to (as suggested) install a 
hard drive in it & use that as a dedicated box for the cloud 
environment.  Will eventually set up the backup so that it goes to the 
DNS-323 for an onsite backup, although this may change.  I have also 
though of setting this up offsite somewhere as well, but not sure where 
I would do that & what the ramifications would be.  I do also have an 
external drive that I can use as backup & will layer that with a 
portable external drive for some measure of offsite backup.  As 
suggested I am likely going for a more enterprise drive purely for reliance.

My biggest question at this point, is where NextCloud saves it files on 
the hard drive.  Is there a particular location (i.e. 
/home/username/???) where you can actually see the files (example: 
document.ods), or does it obfuscate them somehow?  I have tried the snap 
install on my xubuntu box, but can never seem to find the files. 
Basically I am thinking that if I had to evac my house & did not have a 
cloud environment, I would still want to be able to access files 
directly from my offsite external drive.

Any other things I need to consider in getting it setup correctly?  I 
would like to eventually tie it into some LDAP authentication at some 
point, to allow for single-sign-on across the network & over the 
internet...but not sure if I should do from the start or add later.

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