[Owncloud] Backup of Addressbook

[Thomas Tanghus]

On Friday 22 March 2013 11:25:42 André Schild wrote:
> Am 22.03.2013 10:07, schrieb Chris Green:
> > On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:48:24PM +0100, Thomas Tanghus wrote:
> >> On Thursday 21 March 2013 22:12:21 Klaas Freitag wrote:
> >>> On 21.03.2013 21:42, Diederik de Haas wrote:
> >>>> Klaas Freitag <freitag at owncloud.com> wrote:
> >>>>> how would I do a backup of an address book in ownCloud?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Go to contacts -> configure address books -> click on the download link
> >>>> on
> >>>> the line with the address book you'd like to backup.
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks, that helps, if I can do that via curl.
> >> 
> >> You can also just append '?export' to the CardDAV url as in:
> >> 
> >> http://owncloud/remote.php/carddav/addressbooks/klass/contacts?export
> > 
> > Is there some sort of CardDAV standard (an RFC even) which says what all
> > the various forms or URL should do?  There do seem to be quite a few
> > ways of addressing a CardDAV server which aren't at all obvious.

The export thing is an addition to SabreDAV: 
http://code.google.com/p/sabredav/wiki/VCFExportPlugin

> Not sure if anyone uses this,
> but the RFC would be 6764
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6764

That would be the one, and everyone that implements a CardDAV client or server 
follows it. Some better than others ;)

There are different ways for exposing your *DAV resources, which are described 
pretty well in http://code.google.com/p/sabredav/wiki/ServiceDiscovery

> 
> André
-- 
Best regards / Med venlig hilsen

Thomas Tanghus