[clug] CalDAV or WebDAV, whatever

[jhock at iinet.net.au]

I was under the impression that you wanted to avoid using Micro$oft so hence my interest in seeing the options. I also want to backup my calendar, contacts, photos, notes, etcetera, and would like to see the solution as I have allmost lost all when I broke the screen on my phone. 

I currently use the Disroot app and account to save a copy of my Keepass2android password database and access it from my Ubuntu laptop with Keepass2. I also have an export of my contacts on the Disroot site. I believe that it's encrypted and I trust the Disroot server. 

I have made backups of my entire phone using adb but I don't know if a recovery works as I haven't been brave enough to try it in case I brick my phone or lose everything. 

I know that you don't want to use a cloud but that was the only solution that I could find. I'd like to use another solution because I too do not trust to use Google and want complete control of my data. 

John. 

On 17 January 2020 16:21:20 GMT+11:00, Eyal Lebedinsky via linux <linux at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>On 2020-01-17 16:02, Tony Lewis via linux wrote:
>> On 17/1/20 3:55 pm, Eyal Lebedinsky via linux wrote:
>>> On 2020-01-17 13:59, Tony Lewis via linux wrote:
>>>> CalDAV-Sync and CardDAV-Sync might meet your needs:
>>>>
>>>> https://dmfs.org/caldav/
>>>>
>>>> https://dmfs.org/carddav/
>>>>
>>>> Both are in the Play store.  I know I was using CalDAV-Sync for
>quite some time, but I don't any more, as I just use Google's calendar
>and let it sync.
>>>
>>> Thanks. Let me understand though: these are Android apps, what do
>they sync with?
>>> Since I said "no cloud, no google", I assume that I still need to
>set up my own
>>> server side thing?
>> 
>> Yes they are Android apps.  I don't see a good way to solve your
>problem without some kind of app on your device.
>
>Agreed, I will need to install an app on the phone.
>
>> Yes you can set up your own server, and input the details into the
>apps (hostname, port, credentials).  The CalDAV-Sync app at least also
>has presets for common ones, including cloud and google.  I'd be trying
>to connect it to whatever server your Outlook client connects to.
>Otherwise you'd be looking at your own server, but that server would
>still need to connect to wherever your calendar is hosted.
>
>The calendar is not "hosted", it is a local .pst file on windows. I
>expect to need to install an outlook plugin
>to allow it to sync with the same server, which I want to install on my
>linux server.
>
>> Tony