Re: [LUG] Android phone sync to Mint Laptop (via OwnCloud?)

[Simon Avery <digdilem@xxxxxxxxx>]

The obvious answer to backup calendar and contacts on an Android phone is... A google account. Syncs it magically.Â

That doesn't squirt it to your mint machine, but it's "safe" up there on their cloud.Â

Although that's so heavily integrated, I assume you know that and have chosen caldav and owncloud for personal reasons?

On 6 October 2014 18:37, Tremayne, Steve <steven.tremayne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The Lady of the House has an Android phone that she wants to âbackupâ to her Mint (17) Laptopâ

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âbackupâ = contacts, calendar & files (99% photos + 1% music)

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Iâd rather use open source software if at all possibleâ

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As far as a quick DuckDuckGo session reports, it might be easier for her (i.e. me) to sync both the phone & the laptop to OwnCloud â they would obviously then become in sync effectively doing the same thing.

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I have a RasPI with OwnCloud 7 running on it, and due to other tinkering, I have WebDAV setup on itâ

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It appears that the OwnCloud app only transfers files â so between that and the WebDAV (providing CardDAV and CalDAV), then I think Iâm covered.

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So â does anyone have any thoughts around this?

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Anything better?

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Thanks,

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Steve

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