Modification time support via WebDAV

Mike B. shared this idea ago

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Hi there.

I am sync'ing my Mailbox drive with local Linux systems via rclone (one-way sync). However, I would like to test bi-directional sync'ing (via `rclone bisync`), but apparently this is not possible through webDAV, as "modification time support is missing" in Mailbox. Is this a feature that could be implemented in the future?

Cheers.

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Peter Wiesengrund ●

That would be really great and would greatly improve usability.

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William Jackman ●

Hello Mike, Could you let us know how you managed to setup rclone to sync your Mailbox drive? I am running into problems

ERROR : IO error: couldn't list files: Propfind "davs://dav.mailbox.org/servlet/webdav.infostore/": unsupported protocol scheme "davs"

Did you use the option webdav and what was the url you used?

I am running Ubuntu Linux 24.04 and have installed rclone with apt (not with snap).

Thanks!

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Mike B. ●

Hey William,

The URL should be: `https://dav.mailbox.org/servlet/webdav.infostore/`. You should find more details here (https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/drive-article/webdav-for-linux/).

In the meantime I have managed to use the `bisync` functionality of `rclone`, probably as a result of some developments, which made possible to use 2-way sync without `modtime`, but only based on `size` and `checksum`.

Some additional input:

- This Mailbox.org article in german language (https://kb.mailbox.org/de/privat/datei-cloud-mailbox-org-drive/das-drive-unter-linux-so-wird-es-eingerichtet) mentions about the possibility of webdav sync on Linux systems using the FreeFileSync tool. I didn't try it out (don't like the interface and the licencing), so can't comment on its functionalities.

- After using `rclone bisync` for a while, syncing between multiple systems, I decided to search for alternatives, given that syncing tens of GB of data (out of which many were photos/videos), a sync command would take between 5 and 10 minutes. I don't think this is an `rclone` issue, given that there is no server-side metadata, but nevertheless it was not a viable option for daily syncing. So I ended not using Mailbox.org for drive storage and synchronization, but rather **Syncthing**. `rclone` with Mailbox.org is still an option for backup purposes.

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