Host Your Own Bookmarks Backup Using Mozilla’s Weave
If you’ve been using Mozilla’s Weave extension to sync your bookmarks between PCs, but you don’t like the idea of storing your data on Mozilla’s servers, it isn’t too difficult to set up your own Weave host.
Blogger Marios Tziortzis, recently posted a very nice tutorial that walks you through how to run Weave from your own server. The main downside is that in Tziortzis’ scenario there’s no https connections, so if you’ve got sensitive data, this isn’t the way to go.
But if you just want to backup some casual bookmarks and host the tools on your own server, the process is fairly simple. All you need is a web host that supports WebDAV. As some commenters on Lifehacker point out, the free hosting service box.net provides WebDAV over https, though setting it up with Weave can be a bit tricky.
Once your WebDAV server is up and running, you just need to configure Weave to point to the new server.
Unfortunately Weave is currently a closed beta, so if you haven’t already opened an account and downloaded the extension, it might take some time to be accepted.
If you’re looking for ways to keep bookmarks in sync across PCs, be sure to check out the Wired Manage Your Bookmarks how to for some other options.
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