[Owncloud] ownsync, existing?

[Mario Đanić]

The smartest move, IMHO, would be to implement webdav support in
sparkleshare. it is a cross-platform project which already works on
Android, Mac, and Linux, and a Windows port is undergoing development
as well. On top of that, it has a pretty UI.

Cheers,
Mario

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 14:39, dal <dal_ml at me.com> wrote:
> Hello everybody,
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> first of all: owncloud totally rocks!!! (I've forgotten to leave that statement in my former e-mails)
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> My question is: are there any (scripting-)efforts for syncing the owncloud-files to a mac and/or linux-system?
> I didn't find anything fitting, yet.
>
> Elsewise I would like to discuss my first attempts reasoned by my preferred use-case [see below].
> It's a quick-hacked bash-script, which currently works for me but I think this could be elaborated to a simple "ownsync-client".
>
> Kind Regards
> dal
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> One of my favorite services was dropbox, though I strongly felt inconvenient storing my data in the cloud.
>
> In the past few days I've been trying successfully to setup my storage (@home) using owncloud.
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> My current setup requires me to connect 4 devices, amongst them 2 android devices, 1 workstation and a macbook (which I also use as workstation when I'm at home and as mobile device, when I'm in the university/at work).
> WebDAV is just perfect to stay connected, when I'm "on the run"!
>
> But reasoned by networking- and protocol-speed issues I decided to setup a intranet-only samba-share to the owncloud files, so that the workstation(s) can access the data in a more convenient (faster?!) manner.
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> Because of my habit to store some configs (e.g. for git) on a shared drive and link them to proper paths once I setup a system, I need to have a kind of persistent mount for the workstation and the macbook.
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> This use-case obviously fails, when I'm disconnected from the internet, so I thought about copying the mounted files once in a while to a directory ( ~/owncloud ) and to softlink everything necessary.
> A bidirectional sync allows me to edit the configs in place, and to be sure that everything is stored on the share.
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> I've created a small bash-script (which is far from perfect):
>        - tests if a mobile connection exists                           (because of bandwidth and a possible quota the script exists)
>        - tests if samba host is reachable
>                - mounts drive to /Volumes/owncloud             (mount -t smbfs)
>        - else:
>                tests if webdav host is reachable
>                        -mounts drive to /Volumes/owncloud      (mount_webdav -i)
>        - determine which volume is newer
>                1. rsync from server to ~/owncloud
>                2. rsync from ~/owncloud to server
>                or the other way around.
>
> This script is intended to run after startup and maybe once an hour or frequently when the last-modified information has changed.
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> That solutions works for me, but a possible generic, cross-plattform approach could be to implement an equal routine using python (don't know how to handle rsync, yet) and to craft a github-project. Using a samba share, or rsync-ssh (etc.) would be considered as optional. By using python the whole mounting-stuff could be avoided (e.g. by means of pydav).
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> The common idea should be a dropbox-like but surley more simple application, which could hopefully be realized quickly and would (at least) work on macs and some linux-environments.
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