Baïkal Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• EU tells Apple to open everything up to its rivals

  I'm sure there are many ways, but I used https://sabre.io/baikal/ to get a CalDAV and CardDAV server on cheap (shared, bog standard) web hosting, and then pointed Thunderbird to it. Apart from automatic syncing of contacts between devices, I can now edit my phone contacts on the desktop, which is so awesome. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Where do you save your phone contacts with sync feature?

  I use Baikal. It's a CalDav and CardDav server which run easily on a NAS with Docker for example. Source: 11 months ago

• Alternative for builtin-contacts app for macos

  You might want to look into https://sabre.io/baikal/ or get a true groupware mailbox, e.g. An Exchange account with M365. Source: 12 months ago

• CardDAV editors for Baïkal

  I'm using Baïkal to manage my contacts, events and tasks and I'm pretty happy with it. Source: about 1 year ago

• Calendar server

  Also look at Baikal, in addtion to Radicale. Source: about 1 year ago

• Caldas client for php

  You mean this Baïkal server? If so, I think they have a client too. Source: about 1 year ago

• Sync Contact Folder IMAP Dovecot

  Check Baikal out https://sabre.io/baikal/ probably what you want since you already have a working installation of Postfix/Dovecot. It can store your contacts and calendars in MySQL/MariaDB or a simple SQLite DB. Source: about 1 year ago

• Sabre/dav: open-source CardDAV, CalDAV and WebDAV server

  Radicale is powerful, it does not have a management UI though whereas Sabre has Baikal: https://sabre.io/baikal/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Alternative to Google Contacts?

  Https://sabre.io/baikal/ + Davx5 is what I use. Working without flaws and very reliable. Source: over 1 year ago

• What's the golden standard for a privacy respecting smart phone?

  I use a custom version of nginx patched so that DAV actually works. You have to enable the DAV extensions module too. Then Baïkal for CalDAV and CardDAV support. Setup is as difficult as nginx is to configure so I guess "it depends". Source: over 1 year ago

• Google contacts sync foss alternative

  If Nextcloud is to much/heavy there is also baikal as lightweight CalDAV/CardDAV server to combine with the DAVx5 Android app. Source: over 1 year ago

• What CalDav+CardDav service should I use?

  I use Baikal myself, and it works very well. Source: over 1 year ago

• NextCloud Alternatives: File Sync + CalDav/CardDav

  For cal/cardDav I use baikal and it's great, however I couldnt find a good alternative for files. Source: over 1 year ago

• IOS contacts Vcard incorrect and now 100 work phones have the wrong contacts

  I did something very similar years ago in Baikal and its been running mostly intact since then with a few version upgrades here and there. PowerShell to get Exchange GAL contacts in CSV. Perl (because years ago I knew Perl better than PowerShell) to convert CSV to vCard. Perl to load vCard into Baikal directly though database write. 300 people with mobile devices use 1 read-only CardDAV account pushed out by our... Source: over 1 year ago

• Software to consolidate calendars

  Looks like you looking for CalDAV server, xandikos, baikal, cosmo, cyrus IMAP server supports calendars and contacts, davical, nextcloud/owncloud and bunch others if you would look for CalDAV servers. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Moving Google Contacts and Calendar to NextCloud

  I run https://sabre.io/baikal/ mainly because of the webinterfaces some merge errors on carddav are just easier to fix with an ui. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Moving Google Contacts and Calendar to NextCloud

  I don't know of any calDav, cardDav servers written in Go, but I have heard of the following popular servers: * https://radicale.org - written in python. * https://sabre.io/baikal/ - written in php...which I see that you are not so crazy about...but I note it only because it is quite solid reputation. I'm curious why would you want a calDav, cardDav server written in Go? Is it for scalability? Or, ease of... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Syncthing – a continuous file synchronization program

  Baikal is also really nice and comes with a handy GUI https://sabre.io/baikal/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Calendar-Solution without data leaks & multi-platform sync?

  Https://radicale.org/3.0.html or https://sabre.io/baikal/ if you just need a CardDAV server backend for mobile or desktop clients. Source: over 2 years ago

• Suggestions what to host on a Openvz 500MB/30GB Ubuntu 16 VPS

  Something like https://sabre.io/baikal/ to self host calendar and contacts should work it's pretty light. Then tt-rss could be added since you already have php/sql. Source: about 3 years ago

• Alternative to Google calender

  +1, but if OP doesn't (think they) need the rest of Nextcloud's features, there are standalone caldav servers like sabre/dav or Baïkal. Source: about 3 years ago