[Discuss] Docker and Own^h^h^h Nextcloud

[David Kramer]

I have a family. But if I didn't, there's still the problem of multiple 
computers and Android devices.  rsync is great for keeping two computers 
up to date but what if you have a desktop and a laptop and a tablet and 
a phone and there are some documents you want to read/write on all of 
those devices?  At the very least I would use unison for bidirectional 
syncing, not rsync.

Dropbox is a solution for the multi-platform multi-device file sharing 
part (if you trust them), but Owncloud offers groupware too.  And a 
CalDAV server and a CardDAV server.  My calendar and address book on all 
of my devices sync with my personal Owncloud server, not Google. On 
Linux, I use Thunderbird for this with the Lightning and CardDav 
plugins.  It has other applications, but those are the ones that are the 
most crucial and empowering to me.


On 06/19/2017 04:03 PM, Mike Small wrote:
> "Rich Braun" <richb at pioneer.ci.net> writes:
> ...
>> Even with all that, though, this looks like something I should've pursued back
>> in 2013 when I first heard the software title Owncloud. If you've got trust
>> issues and "don't love the Cloud", read about it!
> SDF (the shell provider not the Syrian resistance group) offers owncloud
> or maybe its successor, but I haven't yet had a problem I thought it
> would be the solution for, so haven't looked into it. The trouble I have
> is that the only people I can think of I'd share files with this way
> would only go along with it if I used Dropbox instead. It's a similar
> kind of problem to what prevents me from ever encrypting any of my
> email.
>
> For files I don't share but sync between machines I figured rsync (using
> rsync directly? do Dropbox and owncloud use rsync under the covers? do
> the rsync authors ever get a $ or stock tip for their work backing
> Dropbox if so?) has a richer set of options and is more flexible.
>