Synology Cloud Station

If you have a Synology (DSM 6 or newer) then this is a one click install.

It does pretty much everything Owncloud does, but with some marked advantages.

Primarily you can access the files directly on the server; if you share out a folder, and you drop a file into the folder on the server (use cp command for example) Cloud Station will handle it.

With ownCloud, you deal with the file store on the server as a sealed container; the files are in there, but you can't touch them. This means essentially you are reduced to either only accessing them via WebDAV (slow) or you have to keep a separate duplicate copy on the server (running ownCloud client) requiring twice the disk space.

Todo

Backups

What's the best way to back up the file store? Synology has many options.

How best to use one way sync?

I think this would be good for copying photos from my phone to my server.

It would be good for delivering files to a customer when you don't want them modified.