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Can I use Nextcloud to share a closed-off storage space with a family member? (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My brother and I would like to have some sort of storage space in each others' systems as an offsite backup thing. Ideally, I'd be able to allocate him 2GB of space that he can drop files in (e.g. a Veracrypt container, perhaps a keepass database, not media files). I don't want him to be able to access anything else on my network, like my own computers when they're switched on.

Is Nextcloud a solution? I'd like a sort of Dropbox-equivalent solution where I can just open up a bit of space to him without it being access to anything else. Assume he's not a malicious actor, but also that I want my stuff to stay private.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With nextcloud you can create shared folders. You can give him access to the shared folder via his own account. Anything put inside the shared folder is available to you both. He won't be able to access the rest of your stuff.

Unless he has admin access to the server itself. But you can also enable encryption.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's helpful, he wouldn't have admin access, mostly because I know enough to know that what I don't know is dangerous.