I recently migrated my self-hosted S3-compatible storage from MinIO to Garage.
While MinIO is the industry leader for enterprise object storage, I needed something lighter for my homelab to serve Paperless-ngx (thousands of small files) and Audiobookshelf (large media files). My choice fell on Garage (v1.0+), an open-source distributed object store tailored for self-hosting.
Continue reading Migrating from MinIO to Garage on a Raspberry Pi 5I rely on S3 for central storage. Since some tools do not support native S3 yet, I use rclone. This article details how I implement a persistent S3 mount directly into a Docker container (paperless-ngx) using the rclone Docker Volume Plugin, which is a superior method to traditional host-level mounts.
MinIO is a fantastic Object Storage solution, and I intended to use my distributed MinIO system as the primary external storage for Nextcloud. This distributed setup, which uses Sidekick as a load balancer for seamless node access, proved functional but revealed a critical stability flaw, particularly with mobile uploads.
Continue reading Nextcloud and MinIO Integration: Why Direct S3 Fails and the Filesystem Abstraction Workaround