How to setup Tonido Desktop on Ubuntu 12 04LTS


This post is about setting Tonido on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with service to automatically starts Tonido every time the computer system starts.

Recently I was looking for a software solution to turn my old Asus EeePC netbook into a personal home storage server. I found a few good solutions from my research and for my personal use case, Tonido Desktop seems to be a good fit.

Tonido Desktop has few advantages over other solutions that I felt it qualifies for my use:
  1. It’s the easiest to setup compare to FreeNAS or ownCloud.
  2. Free Android app to access my files using my Android smartphone and tablet. 
  3. Free sub domain (https://<username>.tonidoid.com) for easy access to my personal home storage  server from anywhere in the world. This eliminates the effort of setting up your own domain name and port forwarding on my router for file access from the Internet.
  4. File sync capability (limited to 2GB files for the free Tonido Desktop software).
  5. Runs on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Tonido provides deb package for Linux installation. Tonido also provides software installation for Windows and Mac.
I manage to setup the Tonido Desktop on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS in less than two hours. Tonido Desktop installation does not comes with Linux service setup but setting up a custom service for it to starts every time the OS starts, is not a hard to do. Below are my steps to get the Tonido Desktop setup on my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS netbook to run as a personal home storage server.
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