Hello fellow selfhosters! I have a laptop and a tablet (both running endeavourOS), and I want a certain folder to be always in sync. I also have a very potato server.
My two options currently are Nextcloud and Syncthing. The laptop and the tablet are rarely online at the same time, so I need the server as middleman (so, no syncthing laptop <-> tablet, but laptop <-> server <-> tablet).

Which one do you recommend? The power consumption (of the client) is also very important, because both the laptop and the tablet are battery-powered

I’m also open to other options as well!

thanks in advance to everyone!

Edit: thanks to everyone for your precious help! I finally set up syncthing and it’s working flawlessly!

    • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      Thanks for sharing that. My job set up NextCloud for cloud sharing and I thought it was pretty cool. Tried to set it up at home for sharing on a home network with my family and felt really confused. Every week there was a new problem that I had to solve and ended up going back just network drives and sharing.

      • iturnedintoanewtEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        For file handling Seafile has been pretty efficient for me. No multimedia though.

        • Father_Redbeard@lemmy.mlEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Seafile is great. So fast, and unlike a bunch of these options, won’t sync everything to each node. Everything is reachable from each device with a client, but only downloads what you want from the server. If Syncthing could do that without needing to do a bunch of “ignore” manipulation, I’d switch. But for my needs, Seafile is where it’s at.

    • tubbadu@lemmy.kde.socialOPEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      Isn’t nextcloud the “evolution” of owncloud? Except for the UI, are their performance similar?