Sounds cool. Can you put your script on gitorious so that other can have a look and help you to improve it?
I can give you write access here if you send me you gitorious login. https://gitorious.org/owncloud/owncloud-clients Cheers Frank On 08.12.2011, at 14:39, dal wrote: > Hello everybody, > > first of all: owncloud totally rocks!!! (I've forgotten to leave that > statement in my former e-mails) > > 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 > > ---- > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > 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). > > 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. > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Owncloud mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud Frank Karlitschek [email protected] _______________________________________________ Owncloud mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud
