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I'm looking to shake the cloud. I mainly use the cloud as a backup solution for my personal files, mainly images. I don't really pull data down from the cloud, as typically what I have stored locally is the same in the cloud. My ideal solution would be off the internet. I would like to walk into my house and my phone offloads the new content of the day to a local storage, completely skipping the prying eyes of the cloud providers. I know Steve have mentioned syncthing, but this solution seems like I'm asking it to do a fraction of what it can do. Is there something more suited to the job? I have a raspberry pi and some storage to rig something up, or perhaps an off the shelf solution?
 
The first "brand" that came to mind was owncloud, but it appears to have gone commercial, although I'm sure you could probably still get it running on a Raspberry Pi if you found some tutorial for it. There is also nextcloud, which appears to be doing the same commercialization, although I did easily find this link to their RPi version: https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi/releases .

If you really want "cloudiness" and have the budget for the HDDs, I think I would go for a Synology system and use their built in features and tools to enable your own cloud features. (You could always turn all that off and just use it as an onsite backup, of course.) The plus line-up is bit pricier, depending on your needs, but has the best room for growth and ability for data redundancy. It seems Amazon . com is not showing me stuff they want me to buy from Amazon . ca, but this is one (potentially pricey offer) that has lots of room to grow into. https://www.amazon.com/Synology-DiskStation-DS1821-Diskless-8-bay/dp/B08PKLKKVZ/ REMINDER: Do not forget to include the cost of the HDDs, get NAS specific RED models, and budget $200-300 each probably, depending on how much storage you need.
 
I've got about five or six ssds sitting around doing nothing so I have the hard drive part of it. I too was not thrilled about the commercialization of those options, but was also gravitating around the next cloud option for the same reason you mentioned. I've always heard good things about Synology. So, I am heavily leaning toward that option. I really just wanted to pick some other brains and see if I was missing something. Thank you for your reply
 
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