Alternative storage backends

[viharm]

Hi, I stumbled into Sync-in when I was searching for alternatives to Nextcloud, but specifically it's ability to connect to a variety of storage backends - I use a SFTP backend which connects via SSH to my NAS & passes the logged-in user's credentials to the backend. This allows me to utilize the underlying file system permissions to control access.

Moreover Nextcloud has LDAP & WebDAV, which I string together to allow LDAP users to access their files on NAS, without too much user config in Nextcloud itself.

But Nextcloud has an aweful sync client. I don't use any other bloated features of Nextcloud

I also use Seafile for its robust sync, but it saves data in its own format.

I really liked what Sync-in can do, how it looks & the care shown in making the docs.

So the question is...

does Sync-in support alternative storage backends, other than the container host's mounts, or is this on the roadmap?

This has the potential to replace both Nextcloud & Seafile for me.

[johaven]

For now, we only support storage mounted on the host, and the use of other types of backends has not yet been considered, as we still have many other priorities to address. However, it should be relatively simple to mount SSHFS volumes and link them to external locations via shares or spaces. This could be a practical workaround in your case.

[viharm]

Yes, that's a good approach, however it takes away the dynamic nature of passing credentials to the storage backend for the user who logs in. I might try this just to check options.