s3 – Jean's Blog

Rclone’s VFS Cache: A Deep Dive into Optimizing for a Local MinIO S3 Backend

I realized a critical detail about my setup: the standard vfs-cache strategy, which I picked previously, is a good starting point only if the cache’s performance is superior to the S3 backend. With this theory in mind, it was time to put it to the test.

Audiobookshelf with S3 using rclone

Audiobookshelf is a self-hosted audiobook and podcast server, which can also be used for ebooks. I previously stored my ebooks as PDFs in paperless-ngx, but that turned out to be somewhat unwieldy. I was searching for an alternative and found Audiobookshelf, which fulfills this need perfectly.

Paperless-ngx with S3 using rclone

It’s easier for me to access all my data with some sort of a central storage – for this purpose I decided to use S3 a long time ago. Some cool tools I use do not have native s3 support (yet) but rclone helps with that. In this article I’ll show you how to use the docker volume plugin with a minio s3 storage configured in docker-compose.yml for use with paperless-ngx.

Nextcloud with S3 using rclone

I had trouble with Nextcloud’s own implementation (external storage s3) as it would corrupt some of my photos on auto upload using the Android Nextcloud Client. This did not happen with s3fs, goofys, rclone and also did not happen without s3. Disabling chunking, tuning timeouts, nothing really helped. After testing with goofys, s3fs and rclone I decided to use rclone. Here’s how I did…

Setting up MinIO in AWS Lightsail

MinIO is a high performance, s3 compatible object storage. I’m using it for some years now. In this article I’ll show you how to setup your own MinIO stack using Amazon Lightsail.