The original post: /r/selfhosted by /u/JosephCY on 2025-01-22 03:09:40.

I read about posts of this question, but what still doesn’t clear for me is the recovery option, I know Seafiles are much efficient, but it is not fully open source, especially on the storage format.

What I understand is I will need the database and the data chunks to rebuild the data during restoring them to another system if my server failed, what I don’t know is if Seafiles gone out of business, is there readily available tool for us to restore the data as of now?

I have a old server using i5-8400 CPU, ideally I prefer storage that are directly accessible like Nextcloud, but I’m not sure if my old cpu will become a pain in the ass to run Nextcloud especially when the files get more and more.

(I do also like the deduplication function on seafiles, but i am not sure if i will be uploading a bunch of same data…)