How to store my books with Owncloud/Dropbox?

arvillion commented 7 years ago

I saw this on README.md : With Dropbox / owncloud it's very easy to have an up to date OPDS server. I will put server and db on my vps,and put books on Dropbox / owncloud. How can I do that?

calibius commented 7 years ago

Personally, I use Syncthing to sync my calibre folder, so that I don't have to sync my whole dropbox folder (or exclude a million items) and owncloud is more than I need. What platforms are you on?

doug-w commented 7 years ago

If you have a windows environment at all use Resilio over owncloud. Otherwise the sqlite database isn't happy if it may be modified from multiple sources. Resilio does a better job with the file locking than anything else.

seblucas commented 7 years ago

I should update the README

A little history :

I started with Dropbox but running Dropbox's linux client on a memory constraint VPS is a real PITA. Also there is not any armhf client (so no joy on my many ARM SBC at home)
After that I tried Owncloud (several years ago) and I had a lot of conflict .... didn't know why
Next I used Bittorrent Sync (now known as Resilio) which has the serious advantage to let you have read-only copies.

I'm still using Bittorrent Sync and I never had a single problem in 3 years.

@143kk You'll find a lot of tutorial (try Google), the way I'm using it is to have Calibre installed on my laptop, the directory where Calibre's database is stored is also shared with Bittorrent Sync. My NAS and my VPS have read-only copies of this directory both also have COPS installed on them.

seblucas / cops

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