NextCloud: Linux vs FreeNAS?

[oguruma]

I currently have NC installed on a Linux virtualbox (on a Linux host). It works fine, but that (host) machine only has a 128SSD installed and it's a weaksauce J1900 SoC.

I am thinking about migrating to a FreeNAS jail on my main FreeNAS box.

Are there any Pros/Cons of having this on a BSD vs Linux box? Or any pros/cons with this on a FreeNAS box?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

Nextcloud runs great on FreeBSD. We run it in production for customers and I have a private installation on my FreeNAS at home. I use a VM but in our data centre we use jails - pick what you feel most comfortable with.

In case of the VM I recommend NFS-mounting a separate FreeNAS dataset to, say, /var/nextcloud and use that as storage. For a jail you can use a local nullfs mount which can be configured with iocage fstab.

Rough sketch of the procedure and the necessary components:
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...deo-management-like-iphoto.41183/#post-423088

HTH,
Patrick

 

[scrappy]

You shouldn't have any issues. I have installed Nextcloud on FreeBSD manually and using ports. Everything works as intended if you do it correctly.

 

[oguruma]

Has anybody used any of the various "apps" for NC such as Collabora or "Talk"?

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

The minor NextCloud apps like mail, talk, calendar, contacts all work since they are written in PHP.

Collabora consists of two parts - one "app", that can be installed on a FreeBSD based NextCloud, and a backend Collabora server that is only offered as a Docker container :(

Patrick

 

[oguruma]

Thanks for the input. Is there a workaround for this? I currently use 365, and I am trying to give Microsoft as little of my money as possible. :)

 

[Patrick M. Hausen]

• Try the RancherOS based Docker support in FreeNAS 11? ;) or
• Install NextCloud in a Linux VM

Patrick

 

[danb35]

a backend Collabora server that is only offered as a Docker container

The backend Collabora server is also offered as packages--at least as RPMs, and I think as .debs as well. Still takes Linux, though. Another option would be OnlyOffice, but I'm not aware of a way to run that on FreeBSD either. Though, of course, either of them could go in a VM on FreeNAS if desired.