So I have a NUC with Proxmox as the primary OS and OPNsense in a VM for my home network. I’ve been trying to move away from Google services but would still like to use them as a back up solution. Would it make sense to use Nextcloud in a VM as a replacement and use Rclone to encrypt and backup my files to Google Drive? Or should I use a NAS OS like Open Media Vault instead?
I’ll also mention that I have an empty SSD that I can passthrough and that my primary draw to Nextcloud is that they have a Windows desktop syncing app like Google Drive does which makes things familiar and convenient. I don’t plan on having my Nextcloud instance exposed to the web but might setup a Wireguard tunnel into the local network in the future.
If you are doing just local syncs the simplest solution might be rsync.
As for a solution with nice software clients, I use Seafile. Nextcloud is nice but it’s incredibly slow to sync files in my experience.
Another local option might be syncthing.
As for backup I use Rclone to do encrypted backups to GCPs Archive Srorage tier. The price is really good at $0.0012 USD / GB. 1TB of backups is like $1.25 USD per month. Be warned though retrieval costs are high.