Nextcloud

Nextcloud is a Dropbox-like cloud storage and file sharing service managed and hosted by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada ("the Alliance"). It provides encrypted data transfers between your devices and the cloud storage.

• Can store up to 100GB.
• Data is backed up nightly.
• Service located in secure data centres in British Columbia.
• Best used for smaller amounts of research data.
• Can be synced between devices.

Restrictions & limitations

• Nextcloud users have a fixed quota of 100 GB. This can't be increased.
• You can access files on Nextcloud using FTP, WebDAV, and CLI clients like curl and rclone. Some features are only supported in the official Nextcloud client.
• You can share files, but only with other people who have an Alliance account. If you need to share files with someone who's not already eligible, you can sponsor them.

Resources

• Nextcloud (Alliance wiki page)
• Nextcloud User Manual (5.5 MB PDF document)
• Nextcloud documentation overview