Would it be reasonable to expect a Raspberry Pi 4 to run Nextcloud and manage a photo backup of +100 Gb?

The Raspberry Pi is from 2020, running Raspbian, and it was used as an intervalometer with the help of gphoto2 (meaning no great efforts were demanded from it).

The pictures are on two external hard drives

*1Tb WesternDigital SATA (bought second hand, but “like new” according to the sales guy.

*320Gb WesternDigital SATA (inherited from an AcerOne laptop once I realized it could not even handle lubuntu)

My very limited knowledge on the subject tells me I need to:

*Get rid of Raspbian and install Raspberry Pi OS

*Install Nextcloud (and upgrade an existing account)

*Upload +100 Gb

Would the aforementioned steps allow me to access the files on Fedora/Kubuntu (two separate hard drives on a desktop) and openSUSUE (on a laptop)?

I’m also testing a filen.io account and a sync.com account. All three services (NextCloud, Filen, and Sync) work as I expect on an Ipad.

Filen and Nextcloud have Linux applications, and both have been working without problems on test backups of 100 pictures.

Sync is CANADIAN but not Linux friendly (I tried Wine, didn’t work, gave up)… I’m accessing a free account via Firefox only, so I’m not counting on them for this journey.

So, long story short, I want to back up my files (mostly pictures/scans and some pfd documents) on someone else’s computer and locally.

Now the question. Can anyone recommend a guide to achieve what I want?

I’m a cook by trade without any technical (software/hardware) training who has been using Linux (openSUSE, Ubuntu, Arch, Mint) since 2012. Please forgive any mistakes on terminology.

I included a picture of my intervalo-Frankenstein-meter from 2020.

Thank You.

  • justblackcoffeeplease@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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    14 hours ago

    Thank you for your reply.

    Which Model exactly? 3B+? 4?

    The one I have is an RPi4

    How much RAM?

    It is the 1Gb model. It was purchased at the beginning of the pandemic (April 2020) and all I needed from the RPi4 was to be able to run gphoto2.

    a small number of users (1-3) works for most applications.

    I would be the only user, on a desktop, a laptop and an iphone.

    You might need to use a USB Hub with external Power supply if the HDD uses to much power for the pi USB ports.

    This might be the downside of the project. An array of cables connecting the RPi to the external drive, the powerbank and the display plus the USB dongle for the mouse/keyboard seem too much. The intervalometer had that same problem.

    I would recommend to take a look at Immich

    The Requirements page asks for a minimum of 4GB, while recommending 6GB. There might be a problem there :(

    It looks like the alternative is a Canadian storage provider, using NextCloud on the desktop under Fedora. All this because Proton does not have a Linux app.