Re: [owncloud-user] ownCloud Server to Server Sync?
On 06/07/2014 09:08 PM, Matthew Caron wrote: [snip] 2.) Actual hardware/uptime/connectivity problems - I know from personal experience (having built a few) that building high availability systems in a single location is vastly easier than distributed amongst several locations. Pulling in multiple network feeds and using a router that supports connection failover, and getting a generator that will keep your datacenter up during a power failure is also pretty trivial. By comparison, having several home servers, with residential power, residential Internet[1], and commodity hardware stuck on a shelf or in a dusty basement somewhere is likely to have greater downtime (even with distributed server to server sync) even if it was supported. After all, not only would they have to sync, but you'd have to have site A be able to fail over to site B in the event of a server failure in site A, which requires additional infrastructure such as, for example, DNS which checks server availability. My use case is two fold, one for home and one for work. In the case of work, having a SPOF is huge for us. While having a single location is easier and I have tons of replication for power and switches in the data center, I still need an off-site system to replicate against. All the difficulty associated with that is part of the accepted risk for multi-site replication. We can't afford to have data be down just because a hurricane hit the east coast, or a tornado hit our corridor data center, or a fire knocking out power on the west coast (all events that are easily Google-able). In the case of home, sure it is a bit more work then the average person could probably deal with in terms of ensuring hardware is running and what not, but for a good chunk of the admin geeks on this mailing list the question is not 'can they do it' but 'do they *want* to do it'. I can say for certain that _I_ want and would do it. But as of right now, both use cases depend on owncloud having the ability to support a multi-server configuration. Even if I just go back to my two servers joined by unison. That worked for an /extremely/ lightly tested use case in a controlled environment, but there was still a *single* database being replicated. It should be trivial to realize that won't work for an active-active system. The moment there is data loss due to a sync going bad...eek. I haven't had a chance to test the distributed file system Tahoe-LAFS yet, but I am still researching it. I have plenty of doubts though. Even if I get the file system working perfectly with owncloud, I am not sure how multiple instances of owncloud on the same database is going to work...This currently worries me more then getting Tahoe-LAFS integration. [1] On which, running a publicly accessible server is likely a violation of your terms of service, and your ISP can shut you off if you do this. (At least, for most residential ISPs in the US). Very true. I don't recommend this for most. However, my ISP at the moment doesn't care as long as it isn't a ton of data (I've asked), I am in one of the lucky cities for Google Fiber and hope it comes to my neighborhood within the next year (also verified it is ok with them), the *one* cable company in my dad's neighborhood provides terrible service...until he upgraded to a business class connection then all of the reasons they gave for terrible connection suddenly disappeared (Thanks US cable monopoly!). So the only one I *might* have issues with is my sister. So I am not concerned about that. Besides, think about this scenario for a second. It is my pie-in-the-sky wish list. It isn't terribly difficult to set up a multi-point encrypted VPN tunnel. You can do it for really cheap with a bunch of old Linksys routers + DD-WRT/tomato [I did it back in college as a private LAN for gaming because our provider at the time blocked the game ports...it wasn't blazing fast but it worked]. Then take a bunch of Raspberry Pi's, and a external USB hard drive. ~100$ total per setup. I have friends in most of the states in the US + Europe + Asia + one in Africa. How cool would it be to have a privately-owned massively distributed owncloud system? It would /truly/ be a cloud! A cloud of people we trust! But that is a long ways off still. :-) Anyway, I appreciate all the comments/discussion. The more people who might be interested in this means the more likely this gets worked on. :-) ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ User mailing list User@owncloud.org http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/user
Re: [owncloud-user] Contact syncing on 4.4.2
Greetings, A follow up. I have now tried so many forum guides on how to fix davdroid that reference links are taking me to pages I've already been... I tried a few other apps, like the caldav sync adapter, and they all find owncloud just fine for the calendar, but none of them seem to integrate into the phone contacts list. On my last phone, I had to use acal as that was the only app that would work. I had lots of issues with it being buggy, randomly crashing, and completely locking up the phone, but it worked most of the time. I was really hoping not to use it on the new phone. Well, I gave up and installed it. Unfortunately it is in the same boat as all the other apps. It finds the owncloud calendar just fine but it won't display the contacts in the phone. I am completely at a loss as to how I can sync my contacts from owncloud to this new device. I am running out of apps to try. Help? Please. :) ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ User mailing list User@owncloud.org http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/user
Re: [owncloud-user] Contact syncing on 4.4.2
On 08/04/2014 09:58 PM, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: ~Stack~ == ~Stack~ i.am.st...@gmail.com writes: ~Stack~ A follow up. I have now tried so many forum guides on how to ~Stack~ fix davdroid that reference links are taking me to pages I've ~Stack~ already been... Cardav sync free beta works for me. Caldav sync is for calendars; for contacts you need carddav sync. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.carddav.synchl=en Peter, you are so my hero of the day. All of the references I have seen tonight to carddav have been to the paid version. I was hesitant to setup a play account since I have never used it before, but decided that if the app worked then it was worth it after all the other apps failed me. I was just reading about it on the play store when I noticed the link to the developers website. They have a newer version for free under their Get it tab. Even better!! http://dmfs.org/carddav/?getit It plugged right in and to my surprise, it does a two-way sync to owncloud!! That was something I never got working on the old phone and it was always a bit of a pain to have to type in a new contact into owncloud first. Now that I have contacts, I feel like the phone is somewhat usable at least. There may still be a lot that annoys me about this phone, but I can at least make and receive phone calls without having to remember what phone number goes with what person. :-) Thank you thank you thank you! ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ User mailing list User@owncloud.org http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/user
[owncloud-user] Did Owncloud just drop Enterprise 6 support for 8? [was] changelog for owncloud 8
On 02/05/2015 07:11 AM, Arthur Schiwon wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2015 13:58:02 marcos wrote: I received last announcement about owncloud 8 but I can't find changelog to analyze and discus If I can upgrade , exist any place to look? We have a brief overview here https://github.com/owncloud/core/wiki/ownCloud-8.0-Features From that link: Incompatible Changes PHP 5.3 no longer works with ownCloud 8.0 -- PHP 5.4 or later is required. stack@devweb:~$ cat /etc/redhat-release Scientific Linux release 6.6 (Carbon) stack@devweb:~$ rpm -qa | grep php-5 php-5.3.3-40.el6_6.x86_64 Did Owncloud just drop Enterprise 6 support for Owncloud 8? Or am I missing something? I know that technically RHEL 6 is supported until Q4 2020 so it is unrealistic for Owncloud to stay on PHP-5.3 for that long, but RHEL 7 isn't even a year old yet. I work with a lot of my peers at other companies/universities and while we are all experimenting with EL7, we are no where near ready to switch our entire infrastructure. Especially to a release with as many changes as EL7 has. EL7 broke a _ton_ of our scripts because so much has changed from EL6 and we use a lot of 3rd party tools the vendors are not prepared to support on EL7. I am not anti-EL7, just stating the fact that with such a big change it takes time to switch a production environment. I guess I was hoping to get a little more time on RHEL 6. :-/ I know Software Collections [1] exist and checking the SL6 mirrors [2] I see both PHP 5.4 and PHP 5.5 are available, however, it is far from a complete PHP installation (at least from what I see). Has anyone tried running Owncloud in junction with Software Collections on an EL6 box? [1] https://fedorahosted.org/SoftwareCollections/ [2] http://mirrors.200p-sf.sonic.net/scientific/6x/external_products/softwarecollections/SRPMS/ Any other suggestions? Thanks! ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ User mailing list User@owncloud.org http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/user
Re: [owncloud-user] SL6 and Owncloud 8
On 02/17/2015 11:26 PM, Chris wrote: Hi, do you have done the full upgrade like described here: http://doc.owncloud.org/server/8.0/admin_manual/maintenance/upgrade.html Especially delete everythin except /data and /config Greetings! I thought I had done everything correctly, but apparently I managed to screw something up last night during the install. :-) I just dumped everything again and re-installed Owncloud. It is working just fine now. Dunno why I didn't think about doing that last night... Thank you very much for the suggestion! ~S~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ User mailing list User@owncloud.org http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/user
Re: [owncloud-user] EPEL-6 packages for ownCloud 7
On 03/06/2015 06:24 PM, Chris wrote: see here for a description for the decision why to provide a OC8 package for system which doesn't ship PHP 5.4 by default: https://github.com/owncloud/core/issues/13917#issuecomment-73052468 That was actually an interesting read. Thanks! We have too many things that we can't take big risks on so we keep to the Enterprise grade type of stuff. We are still waiting on several big vendors to properly adopt to RHEL 7 before we jump ship. I am /really/ hoping to stick it out on RHEL 6 till at least the end of the year with a migration next year, but more and more it is getting challenging to do so. It is kinda funny. Two years ago I led the crusade to get rid of RHEL 4 and last year I started the hard push to migrate off of RHEL 5. I just wanted a year break before starting the push to get off RHEL 6. :-D ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ User mailing list User@owncloud.org http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/user
Re: [owncloud-user] EPEL-6 packages for ownCloud 7
On 03/06/2015 02:23 PM, Matěj Cepl wrote: Packaging software which depends on php54 for platform which doesn't have php54... To be fair, they have advertised dumping php53. To be honest, if you look at my history on this forum you will see a recent post where I too got blindsided by this very thing. The Software Collections route I went to was something new to me, but it ended up not being too bad. Now I have httpd24 and php55 running on Scientific Linux in production with owncloud 8. The post shouldn't be too hard to find, but if you need help let me know. I will be happy to do what I can. I would think that E in RHEL means that the packager should be careful about screwing up your users. Trust me. This is one of my biggest pet-peeves. Especially with the absurd notion recently of pushing bleeding-edge packages that haven't hit a one year birthday yet into Enterprise grade OS and LTS support. This really frightens me. But I would also expect that an admin who joins me in the fight for keeping that E of highest importance would break a dev box...not a production one... ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ User mailing list User@owncloud.org http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/user
Re: [owncloud-user] Blogposts for upgrade problems or usage hints
on my part to verify the bug in each distro) and having my bug report in each of those locations, I gave up. It sat unresolved for quite sometime. I tend to read about new kernels on http://kernelnewbies.org/ and then I noticed a post that was something like Fixed an accidental revert on my specific problem. What?? So I traced it out...it hit Fedora...it hit Red Hat...it was in CentOS...and is in staging in my distro! I yanked it down, tested it out, bingo! It works! That is when I found out that this hardware driver is managed by another group for include into the kernel. Had I reported it to them, it would have been no big deal. I didn't know that before and I am slightly annoyed at the kernel list replys telling me to go to the distro instead of pointing me to this group but whatever. The bug is fixed now. :-) Anyway, the point being I can relate to why someone might not post to a bug tracker directly. As for why someone wouldn't report to ownCloud, I don't know. I have reported a few issues before and I have found it very easy to report problems. I have also had a few Ack! What am I doing wrong? moments posted to this list and found really good help and information here as well. I haven't really messed with the forum so I can't say, but I do know it gets used. So I am at a loss for why they wouldn't report it... ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ User mailing list User@owncloud.org http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/user
Re: [owncloud-user] 8.1 is here
On 07/14/2015 04:14 AM, Norman Rieß wrote: This is a milestone release for ownCloud in terms of polishing, speed and quality. I am sorry, but this is not. After upgrading manually because the new version was not shown in the update center, core applications where deactivated again. I found contacts and calendar as experimental with a red label... these are core features. I experienced the same. But I failed to notice until users suddenly lost all their contacts on their phones!! Good thing I have backups! Activating calendar worked, contacts did not and just gave me some unhelpfull failed message instead of telling me what went wrong. After that no app was shown at all. Clicking activated, not activated or any of the other sections gave no applications found. Relogging brought up the upgradescreen an maintenance mode again. After that contacts installed fine but the no applications found game began again. I had to do this three times till all the apps where back. I didn't nearly have it this bad. Yes, they were (and are) listed as experimental and after I did the installation owncloud just hung till I refreshed the page where it took me to the installation page. After that they worked. And then i saw contacts and calendar in the productivity section in the same version marked as stable with an activate button, which gave a directory allready exist message. So i have an activated calendar and not activated calendar app with the same version number. Yup! Same here. I get some installation messages about caching and security telling me to install some more packages and alter sysconfig. Isn´t this supposed to be throwable at any php hoster and be done with it? I actually appreciated this. The advice it had given me was actually useful. I tweaked a few settings to improve security and haven't had a problem. But never mind, just needed to tell. Glad you did. I thought I had just done something to my install! I am sorry that others had the same problem, but glad it isn't just me having these issues. ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ User mailing list User@owncloud.org http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/user
Re: [owncloud-user] ownCloud Server maintenance releases 8.0.14, 8.1.9, 8.2.7 and 9.0.4
On 07/19/2016 08:09 AM, Vincent Petry wrote: > Hello, > > We are happy to announce that the maintenance releases for 8.0.14, > 8.1.9, 8.2.7 and 9.0.4 have been released. > > Please note that these contain many bug fixes and also some security > fixes, so it is recommended to upgrade as soon as possible. > [snip] > > Thanks to everyone who has contributed to these stable releases ! > > Vincent I agree! Thanks everyone! ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ User mailing list User@owncloud.org http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/user
[owncloud-user] Owncloud Calendar with Thunderbird & Lightning - Thanks
Greetings, Hopefully this isn't OT for the list. OS: Ubuntu 15.10/16.04 Thunderbird: 38.8.0 Lightning: 4.0.5.2 I like Thunderbird for my email. Today I was told about the Lightning Add-on that could connect to Owncloud. When I go to "Events and Tasks"-> "Publish" and enter in the Owncloud URL I get from the gear symbol in the web version of Owncloud, I get an error. The URL is https://my.owncloud.domain/remote.php/caldav/calendars/username/defaultcalendar Which gives the error "Publishing the calendar file failed. Status code: 409: Conflict" I banged my head on it for an hour looking at all kinds of "solutions" that didn't work for me. A minute ago, I found this: https://forum.owncloud.org/viewtopic.php?t=17563 Windyward, you are my hero of the day! That solution totally works. So many guides told me to go the Publish route and that didn't work. However, creating a new calendar does! Since I don't use the forums I thought I would tell the list in case anyone else needs this info in the future. Thanks! ~Stack~ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ User mailing list User@owncloud.org http://mailman.owncloud.org/mailman/listinfo/user
