Important
The native desktop app is no longer built/maintained, and instead now I only provide some commands here, which use rclone to sync the directories (the app already used that). This is simpler and safer, to be honest.
If you're looking for the last working version of the desktop app, it's at the v0.0.5 release or this commit.
If you're looking for the last failed attempt to upgrade it to Tauri v2, check this PR.
If you'd like to keep a local directory in sync with a bewCloud instance, these are the recommended commands. They rely on rclone, which relies on rsync.
Usernames, passwords, and sync are all handled by rclone. The connection to a bewCloud instance happens via HTTP and a remote via WebDav is created in rclone.
If you're looking for the mobile app, it's at bewcloud-mobile.
- Install
rclonefrom the official website. - Setup your bewCloud remote:
rclone config create "bewcloud" webdav vendor=fastmailand provide your bewCloud DAV URL, username/email, and DAV password. - Create your local "root directory" to sync (optional, but recommended):
mkdir -p /home/user/bewcloud - Per remote directory you want to sync, run the first sync:
rclone bisync -vc "bewcloud:/<remote-directory>/" "/home/user/bewcloud/<local-directory>" --resync
Note
Some people have had issues with synchronizing empty directories. If you're having issues, you can try adding --create-empty-src-dirs to the sync command in number 4 and below.
Assuming you want to run the sync every hour, you can use the following cron job, per directory: 0 * * * * rclone bisync -vc "bewcloud:/<remote-directory>/" "/home/user/bewcloud/<local-directory>"
Alternatively, if you'd like to run the sync ad-hoc and keep some log to track things, you can create a file like sync-bewcloud.sh with all the directories you want to sync:
#!/bin/sh
rclone bisync -vc "bewcloud:/<remote-directory-1>/" "/home/user/bewcloud/<local-directory-1>"
rclone bisync -vc "bewcloud:/<remote-directory-2>/" "/home/user/bewcloud/<local-directory-2>"And then your crontab can be 0 * * * * /home/user/sync-bewcloud.sh > /home/user/sync-bewcloud.log 2>&1
And you can simply run ./sync-bewcloud.sh to sync the directories and check the output.
To uninstall/remove these sync scripts, you can delete the rclone config file for bewcloud (rclone config delete bewcloud), and remove the crons.
You should only have to follow the sync/cron section above.
You should also remove the app. If it's not deleted, you can delete the <AppDataDir>/config.json file, which isn't necessary or used by rclone.
I'm sorry, but there's not enough incentive for me to keep maintaining a native desktop app. I've heard great things about PhotoSync, though I haven't used it myself. Any WebDav client should work, and if it doesn't, feel free to open an issue at bewcloud/bewcloud.