Some of our employees use NextCloud. Now all colleagues want to enjoy the benefits of NC.
The problem: We cannot completely do without our local Windows server due to some proprietary industry solutions that have to be connected to a local path and generate a relatively large load.
At the moment we are unsure which option is best for our case:
- local Windows server, shares must remain available locally
- NC environment in the data center (incl. backup)
- relatively slow Internet connection (theoretically 16MBbit/s, practically 1/3 of that)
- 1.5 TB of existing data on the local server
- Data growth (approx. 2-3 GB / week, e.g. images from employees in the field)
- Each employee should load their documentation directly into the NC and edit documents if necessary (Collabora); devices: Win desktop, Win notebook, MacOS, Android, iOS
- A new folder for a specific user group every 2-3 days
- Use of files, calendar, tasks, Collabora
We have found the following variants:
(Variant 1) WinServer local + with NC client (own user)
- so far NC-Client crashes every 1-2 days and has to be restarted
- keeping a copy of all files on all clients is not possible due to the amount of data (virtual folder problem with Macs)
- unsolved for us: keep more complex authorizations synchronized
(Variant 2) Integration of directories via WebDav/network drive
- relatively slow
Does anyone have experience with this?