Thread: (Automatic/one-tap) Photo upload to Owncloud
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beidl is offline beidl
2015-02-09 , 16:00
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#25
Originally Posted by bennypr0fane View Post
Could you elaborate on what the backup daemon does? What does it backup, and to where... Maybe a developer would understand what it is just by the words backup daemon, but a little explanation for the layman would be cool.

(btw: man, I can' t believe you actually call yrself that as a dev name)
It's a background process that is started as part of starting the GUI shell (lipstick) using systemd.
This means that the process is launched when the device is booted up.
The nice thing about that is that this doesn't require the app to be running in the background.
The process watches for changes in ~/Pictures and uploads new files to a directory on the remote ownCloud instance (/Jolla/) when on WIFI.
Using the ownCloud app you can set credentials and the daemon will pick those settings.

(yeah, I know, I know. it's only funny when nobody has a clue what it means.... oida.)
Last edited by beidl; 2015-02-09 at 16:06.
 

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