peter7
January 4, 2025, 7:50am
1
Hello community,
is there an option to use a command line client to synchronize with a nextcloud setup using e2e/clientside encryption?
The scenario: we have a system to sychronize multiple desktops and have e2e/client side encyption enabled. To run backups on our existing system, we would like to synchronize the nextcloud with a regular folder using a linux commandline client.
Thank you and kind regards
tflidd
January 7, 2025, 12:39am
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No, there is an open feature requestion for that:
opened 01:49PM - 07 Apr 23 UTC
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Thank you for developing Nextcloud and adding E2EE to the server.
In my setup / use case I desperately miss the E2EE compatibility of *nextcloudcmd* tool:
From various mobile devices I use the sync functionality to my server hosted by an external provider. I like to "client side" encrypt my data and this is working from the various GUI clients.
In a next step I would like to mirror the data from my external hosted server to my private lan based NAS. The NAS is headless so I'm using nextcloudcmd. However nextcloudcmd is not equipped with E2EE configuration parameters (as the GUI clients are).
Can you please add E2EE configuration parameters to nextcloudcmd (similar to parameters -u and -p)?
Thanks
Markus
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### Feature description
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With all its limitations (no VFS, , I still would be a bit careful:https://docs.nextcloud.com/desktop/3.15/architecture.html?highlight=encryption#end-to-end-encryption
If you just use Linux, perhaps EncFS is the better solution here. Or Cryptomator?