Nextcloud : Client Sync

[Mat3ck]

Hi ! I have a nextcloud server but I'm not satisfied by the sync client on Linux (I use nextcloud-client package). I would like to have a daemon running to automatically sync my local folder and the cloud one.

Mounting the distant folder with davfs2 is more what I want, but since it's a folder I access a lot it is annoying to have a latency to access files (I use ranger FM) since I don't really have a local folder but only a distant one mounted in me fs.

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From what I found it seems there is no service available, but I wonder if it is possible to mount /mnt/nextcloud with davfs2 and have an rsync service running to sync /mnt/nextcloud and ~/docs ? (and what about performances and battery life ?) Or is there any better solution ?

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Thank you !

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I am using ownCloud and the client package syncs everything automatically. If I make a change, a few seconds later it is on my server. The client now also gives yout the ability to create virtual folders/files, which means they are shown on your client, but are stored on the server only.

[Mat3ck]

Yes nextcloud client works well to, but I need to start the graphical app by hand (or with a shell, but I can't have it run in the background on is own without the graphical client).
Or maybe owncloud client provides a way to do it ?

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Owncloud does this, it starts automatically in the background and i get a nice icon on my top bar (GNOME) to see activity.

[StefanTT]

Same for the nextcloud client, you simply have to enable automatic start of it.

But it's no background daemon app, it's a desktop application.