Lima - Personal Cloud

[Gandalf]

https://meetlima.com/index.php?lang=en

Build your personal Cloud in seconds
Install Lima at home.
Enjoy terabytes of files on your computer, smartphone and tablet wherever you are.

Interesting, very interesting indeed.

[albert]

So it makes cloud services redundant as long as you have a decent network at home and adequate resilience on your storage setup.

Nice idea. It's like spoke and hub storage with the clients controlling access and bypassing firewalls with app peer to peer control.

[TeaLeaf]

Interesting indeed, but I'm not sure I'd want my cloud on a 'click-click' external hard drive.  

Remember that physical storage is cheaper than cloud storage. You will spend 3 to 5 cents per GB and you will own your hard drive forever.

I'm not quite sure how they calculate this figure.   Does it include the Lima and the external HDD (and if so, what storage size).  It also assumes that your connected external HDD doesn't ever fail.  I've had several externals fail over the years and I bet many people will recognise the 'click-click-dead' sound.

Now if it happily connected to a Nas4free box, then I'd be more interested, but then the NAS already gives you remote access!

[Gandalf]

NAS is in the pipeline...

[Tutonic]

Not a bad way to get at your files while you're out of the house, but I'm struggling to think of a problem this solves.

You'll also need a healthy upload speed on your connection at home, and most of us who are on ADSL+ don't have that.

[OldBloke]

We're playing with OwnCloud in the school where I work. Open source and, so far, impressive results.

[Gandalf]

We're playing with OwnCloud in the school where I work. Open source and, so far, impressive results.

Now that does look good. May have to get an instance spun up here in the rack...

[TeaLeaf]

Now that does look good. May have to get an instance spun up here in the rack...

GandCloud^TM - launching soon! :roflmao:

[Tutonic]

We're playing with OwnCloud in the school where I work. Open source and, so far, impressive results.

Just in case they weren't already awesome enough, they also have a Docker repository.

[smilodon]

Likewise it's a nice idea but I agree it seems to solve a problem I don't have.

[no peanuts]

You may also want to check out https://www.seafile.com/en/home/

[albert]

I bought a Lima Ultra and a 2TB Seagate Expansion drive. I figured if we backup the files we care most about to an actual cloud service and then to the Lima drive, we'll be pretty well covered in case of failure. I'm not a fan on NAS drives but the Lima and it's drive I just velcro onto a wall next to my router and forget about it. You just choose the folders to backup and whether to keep then offline as well on the device or just push them to the Lima. You can do a mutli drive setup but that costs the price of a second Lima and I'd say that's not much of a gain in resilience compared to having an offsite backup.

[Penfold]

Now Cubby is closing its doors I need a new solution for collaborative working across multiple sites.

I have four remote workers which have files I want to sync back to the office so they can be backed up to our cloud server. The problem with something like Dropbox (of which I have a few accounts) is that I need to sign them up to their own accounts or else give them access to the pro account - the free 2gb ones just aren't high enough.

Cubby / file sync worked well as it meant that files changes at the office or at their PC automatically synced.

Would Lima work?

Anyone got any other ideas of how to solve this?

[albert]

Lima would work. You just need to have one main account and consider your backup strategy. I found yesterday I could drag files from Lima direct to any other cloud such as Google. So we backup/ share to Lima from anywhere and put the folder into Google Drive.

Edit: Of course Lima relies on your network where the drive is located being reasonably good. A 100Mbps cable link is obviously great. 2Mbps if you're syncing all day is bad but even that is workable for documents. Best thing about Lima is ease of use, security, support for any device and OS in an app or File Manager/ Finder in Windows/ Mac. And up to 7TB drive support so you can backup anything from anywhere to it and be pretty sure you have good storage capacity. We have a need for about 200GB, so I have a 2TB drive, cost under â,¬200 total for the Lima and drive. We both have google Drive with 215GB for 2 years from having bought LG phones in the past so have 2 levels of backup sorted.

[Gandalf]

I've been using Sync for a few months now, works well and in the same way as dropbox. It is paid for, but the pricing isn't too bad at all. Oh and the free account is 5GB of storage, so may be enough for you?