[Owncloud] Chaining owncloud servers via webdav

[Michael Gapczynski]

Did you forget about using external storage ;-)

You can just setup WebDAV on the server at home and add it as external storage 
on your rented server with ownCloud. I wouldn't setup ownCloud on the server 
at home if you only wanted to keep files on it. It will be faster using the 
native OS WebDAV support than SabreDAV.

I'm not quite sure what you're talking about with the clients running off of 
Java. I don't see what this offers you compared to the desktop client.


Michael

On Sunday, August 19, 2012 03:24:39 PM Jörn Friedrich Dreyer wrote:
> Im using owncloud with davfs2 on linux. Cache size set to 15GB so nearly
> everything I access regularily is cached locally. unfortunately my server
> only has 50GB of space and I will run out of disk space with the next
> holiday pictures.
> 
> I'm thining of setting up an owncloud server at home (which has lots of
> space, but not the best upload) and use it as a file backend for my rented
> server.
> 
> Is this already possible with ownCloud itself? Or should I try davfs2 for
> this again?
> 
> Taking this Idea a step further I was thinking of running owncloud on the
> desktop. For this purpose I tried out Resin / Quercus to run php in a Java
> servlet container:
> http://www.caucho.com/projects-open-source/php-app-server- quercus/
> 
> I got owncloud running after commenting the ZipArchive check (quercus
> implements the zip function but not the ZipArchive class). Im currently
> writing a sqlite module for quercus so I could package everything together
> and have owncloud run on every platform that runs java.
> 
> I could then chain my owncloud instance all together like this:
> owncloud at home: slow upload, lots of space, dyndns ip, acting as storage /
> backup
> owncloud at internet: fast access, limited storage on a rented server (~50GB
> space), acting as a fast cache
> owncloud at client: local owncloud, encrypts/decrypts files acting as cache on
> every machine I own that runs java (2 laptops, a desktop ... possibly
> android), need their password seed aligned so I can access my files from
> everywhere
> webdav at client decrypted access to the files in my owncloud
> 
> This way the owncloud at client instances are under my control (I dont even
> need admin rights as I just start a java program that opens a port I choose
> for web access). Files are encrypted locally and I can store huge amounts
> of data. For what I want I can even make the lucene based search backend
> index files on the clients and store the index encrypted, without loosing
> to much speed. Quercus even claims to speeds up php by 400%.
> 
> I can imagine owncloud provide a zip that conatins such a preconfigured
> client owncloud user just need to download, extract and run locally to have
> that functionality.
> 
> This all works when owncloud can use other owncloud instances as file
> backends and cache files like davfs2 does.
> 
> Did the sun finally melt my brain? Have I gone crazy? What do you all think?
> 
> so long
> 
> Jörn