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submitted 1 year ago by _ghidra_@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Hi guys,

Not sure if this is possible or how it might work but I am trying to get away from using commercial Cloud storage such as OneDrive and set up my own securely but as well as being convenient.

While I can connect to a vpn and then upload and download the files, that is a hassle that I do not want to deal with if possible. My idea is to get a VPS, install owncloud, and then install a VPN back into my network, and have the owncloud database stored locally on my machine but only be able to access the owncloud instance on the VPS so that I don't have to let anything through my own network etc.

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The only problem I am seeing here is how to set the owncloud database locally and link it back to the instance on a VPS.

I did look into using zerotrust cloudflare tunnels, just not something I want to expose to cloudflare, as well as running it through NPM souly.

If anyone has any additional ideas or input on this, that would be greatly appreciated!

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[–] arcadianarcadian@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm using Nextcloud, it's forked from Owncloud.

Of course, it's possible to link your database to a local machine. Why do you want to store your database on a local machine? Why don't you want to put the database together with Owncloud?

Your steps should be like this with my approach.

- Install wireguard software on VPS.

- Install wireguard client on your local machine as a service.

- Install database software on your local machine and use the IP address of wireguard client IP as management.

- Install Owncloud on your VPS. While installing it will ask for the database IP address, so point it as wireguard client IP address.

[–] _ghidra_@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you for that information! I appreciate it.

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I dont want the database on the VPS since I would like full control of the storage, backups etc, as well as security purpose, would rather it be on something I own rather then what someone else owns.