Stuff from more than 6 months ago are moved to a WebDAV mounted volume. ownCloud sync clients work very well keeping my stuff in sync when I need them in sync, and the WebDAV component worked very well for direct access from, for example, Mac OS X’s Finder.įor me, WebDAV on ownCloud is used to offload some files from my Retina MacBook Pro when I don’t need to keep them actively with me anymore. Of course, I prefer not to have to run two server (software) if a single one could handle both needs. Especially for older photos, it would suffice for me that they are in the cloud, accessible online anytime I want to retrieve them, but I don’t want my smartphone to sync a copy. For example, my photo library is huge, so I don’t really want them on all my devices. However, there is much more content that I want to put in the cloud, without necessarily wanting to have them all synchronised down to all of my devices. That’s the primary reason for wanting to use ownCloud.

I do synchronise stuff between multiple devices. In case you’re wondering, since ownCloud is primarily meant for synchronising storage between multiple devices, why do I use it as a WebDAV server, and why don’t I use a dedicated WebDAV server software instead? It’s very annoying when something that has worked all the time should suddenly break down when you upgrade a related thing. In this case, ownCloud was upgraded to version 8.1 recently, the updates being automatically applied in my CentOS 7.1 server. Some parts of my ownCloud storage, which I don’t want sync’ed, are accessed directly via WebDAV.

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