";s:4:"text";s:22320:"That custom directory should then be configured in the config.php via the configuration option skeletondirectory (see Configuration Parameters ). Edited 2 times, last by Alomon (Feb 3rd 2020). The new root nextcloud user data location for this single nextcloud user ist now /var/ncNewData. The respective partition is mounted at /var/nextcloud, and thats where Nextcloud looks for its data folder. them in directory that is readable by the webserver user. Could I not create a new folder (separate to my Nextcloud folder) in my Nextcloud account on the server and sync it with another folder on my computer? aptalca. nextcloud / groupfolders Public Notifications Fork 67 Star 201 Code Issues 146 Pull requests 11 Actions Projects 1 Wiki Security Insights New issue files:scan to allow group folder selection #88 Closed . Personal spot :: https://www.smirky.net/ :: Try not to get lost! Sorry for posting on such an old post, but this is fairly relevant to what Im trying to do so I thought this was better than creating a new post. Ive successfully got the external drive feature to work in nextcloud, but I want the data directory to be using the dataset I choose. drwxr-xr-x 14 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:39 . It seems that the umask is set to 0000 by default. and then I run ln -s /mnt/external_hdd/nextcloud /var/nextcloud, right? That will change the owner and group of all files under /var/www/html to www-data. I dont have the second menu with status setzen, abmelden and Konto Lschen there. Restart apache. I moved all /mnt/dietpi_userdata/nextcloud_data files to /mnt/myexternaldrive/nextcloud, then done chown -R www-data:www-data /mnt/myexternaldrive/nextcloud and changed settings in config.php and in oc_storage in the database. Configuration Parameters). After doing so you can use occ to scan the new location and update the database accordingly as needed. Nextcloud doesn't really care too much where the data directory is located, as long as the path is right in the config.php file, the directory has a ".ocdata" file in it (note the leading dot. This protection is important, otherwise users could access the whole system by uploading symlinks, in theory. You can convert a SQLite database to a better performing MySQL, MariaDB or And then you must rescan all with occ, hm sorry but while your solution works (not great, see below), @Andy3153 works as well (Solution 2 of this HowTo) and the occ re-scan can be skipped when altering the database entry according to Solution 1 of this HowTo. But it is of course also possible to use the Nextcloud as a storage backend for backups. So I tried the original setup (putting data in /var/www/html/nextcloud/data), and got through the installation. But see this post of nickvergessen that it is still the recommended way to keep the database entries clean and consistent. My NC config was in sites-enabled and your in conf-available. Im having the same issue and have uploaded my issues cannt change data directory before or after adding admin. If you are an administrator, edit the "trusted_domains" setting in config/config.php like the example in config.sample.php. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 15752 Mar 11 10:52 AUTHORS You can simply stop the server, move data directory, change path in config and start server again. If so then add your new data-folder! Also NextCloudPi might provide own solutions: https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi Well, Stefan it really sucks that no one helped you out since I am having the exact same issue and cannot find a solution. Replace the current directory location with the one where you have copied the data folder. @b-pfl (Recently, my MicroSD on my phone died, taking thousands of pictures with it - I have them backed up on Google Drive, but at lower quality). If you have any guide or video link to help, Ill appreciate it. Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file sync & communication app platform. To cd into the directory as sudo. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 3056 Mar 11 10:52 public.php Again, read the HowTo, putting Nextcloud in maintenance mode assures that no data R/W is done, hence is absolutely sufficient to have a safe data transfer. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 ocm-provider PS: of course since youre running that on a Windows Server 2018, youll have to adapt the path. Im also not sure how secure this is but its works for me too. You can perform many common server operations with occ, such as installing and upgrading Nextcloud, manage users, encryption, passwords, LDAP setting, and more. If you delete something on your Mac inside of one of these folders, it also gets deleted on your Nextcloud server and vice versa. Start a shell in the Nextcloud container ( docker exec -it name-of-nc-container bash) and run chown -R www-data: /var/www/html. drwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 data, /mnt/MyData/nextcloud/data (identical to /var/www/html/nextcloud/data) Too busy. Basically of config.php does not contain a matching entry, Nextcloud could remove all obsolete ones before adding the correct new one. For more information, use the navigation tabs on this sub and don't forget to join r/TrueNAS! drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:41 This may take longer, because all the files have to be downloaded from the server again, but on the plus side it works without potential sync conflicts, which in the worst case could lead to data loss, I tried to move the already synchronized directory from one hard drive to another new hard drive without downloading all the data from the server from the beginning, so I followed step by step as described here and still there were a few directories that must be downloaded from the server from the start, and it took a long time. the strange thing is that when i was logged in it was still working and my HD was detected but when i logged out i got this message . If you use Nextcloud Snap, follow their official simple instructions: https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap/wiki/Change-data-directory-to-use-another-disk-partition Although phpMyAdmin provides a nice GUI, it is not required to alter the database. Im installing Nextcloud 18.0.2 manually onto a Raspberry Pi 4 (Raspian 10 - Buster), using MariaDB. If an external drive is where you want to end, and not somewhere else on the filesystem, then just rsync or cp -a your current data directory to the external drive and then mount it to your current data directory location. drwxr-x 49 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:47 apps So, other nextcloud users will not have a problem. drwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 data But now I would like to have all data in a different drive. Error with the data file location and it doesnt work. Enable maintenance mode (install sudo if you don't have it already in the jail), 4. Ok I ran touch .ocdata and when signing to web ui through lan ip I was greeted with this `Access through untrusted domain. To create a new external storage mount, select an available backend from the dropdown Add storage. Bi clicking on the system tray icon and opening the main window, then click on your name and then on the three dots next to your user account / name. one, do a suggestion to have it added. See nextcloud.export -h for more information. You then said to use the following command sudo chmod 0770 directory_name, which I also did. I trust youre right however not sure where it mentions it and therefore not sure where this data folder is that i need to separate. My standard permissions for folders are 750 and for files 640. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 files_external Snap/Docker For security, it's best to place the data directory outside of Nextcloud webroot directory. Im trying to to do an install Im having issues when I try and switch the data directory file over to mounted two drives in raid 0. PostgreSQL database with the Nextcloud command line tool. Then I tried to adjust the permissions. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 ocs Nextcloud stores the data directory location and all it's files locations inside it's database, that can be chosen during installation as well. drwxr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:53 config Edit the database: In oc_storages change the path on the local::/old-data-dir/ entry. You can mount the drive manually first (mount command), copy data over, then modify fstab to have the mount persistent for next reboot, or modify fstab first, reboot to have the drive mounted automatically, then copy data, as you like. And that will tell docker-compose that youve already created this volume and its name is nextcloud-data otherwise docker-compose will create a new volume named nextcloud-data and will prefix it with the stack name (here nextcloud so it would be nextcloud_nextcloud-data. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, rename/move the folder to another location as you preffer, register on client software and search the new location of the MAIN FOLDER, Pick a local folder on your computer to sync (for example my Windows, Select a destination folder on Nextcloud server (or create new, also called. NTFS). -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 283 Mar 11 10:52 occ I was able to figure it out. Note that the below does not apply to Nextcloud containers/appliances. i have set the datadirectory to 'datadirectory' => '/media/usbhd/data' my installation medium is: ubuntu20.04-preinstalled-server-arm64 my device is a: raspberry pi 3b in the folder usbhd i have the files: appdata_oc4rufk42j51 data files_encryption nextcloud.log. Choose a displayed folder name and SMB / CIFS. In the Folder name field enter the folder name that you want to appear on your Nextcloud Files page.. This is not required. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 26 Mar 11 10:52 robots.txt The only thing that I had to do slightly different was to grant access to the www user and group to the mounted dataset. Thanks for the guidance. Indeed your statement (hence this HowTo) and Nextcloud docs do not match here. What Information do you need? Stop apache. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:53 updater I still get Data directory (/mnt/myexternaldrive/nextcloud) is invalid. Did you set open_basedir? Add-ons --> My Add-ons --> Nextcloud --> Configure --> Map /data. in the sync client, click the three dots on the right, select remove folder synchronisation, May be a bug (?) Create named local volumes that persist in the location(s) you want - CWSpear/local-persist, Create named local volumes that persist in the location(s) you want - CWSpear/local-persist, To install the local-persist driver: thank you, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:31:29), In /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/config/config.php, 'datadirectory' => ''. Anyone knows how to change / move the nextcloud data to a new directory? Navigate to Settings > Personal > Sharing > Files. overwrite the files that are shipped by default with Nextcloud in thanks, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:34:10). Ill dig into it by times to check for safe ways to identify the correct entries. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, HowTo: Change / Move data directory after installation. I looked in the configuration file for the path to the data directory (all user files are stored in it): . Hi Rotational, does it mention to separate Data in the instructions? $ ls /etc/apache2/sites-enabled Is there a way to do that ? Then with your regular user account you go to settings -> External storage. In the Available for field enter the users or groups who have permission to access the mount. FreeNAS is now TrueNAS. Update the Nextcloud config to use the new data directory by editing /var/snap/nextcloud/current/nextcloud/config/autoconfig.php and making sure the directory setting is pointing to the right place, e.g. Thanks for advice, MichaIng. curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CWSpear/local-persist/master/scripts/install.sh | sudo bash, To create a persistent volume named nextcloud-data: This screenshot shows a set of photos in the skeleton directory. Therefore it creates the tables oc_storages for the data directory and oc_filecache for the files. The folder /var/ncData/user1 is the data folder from the dummy nextcloud user1. If you have any guide or video link to help, Ill appreciate it. I don't know what steps i need to do to change my data directory. Only if you do not already syncing the root folder of your Nextcloud, which then would also include this newly created folder. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 542 Mar 15 15:46 .htaccess So, I have 3 computers syncing files with a nextcloud 12 server. My understanding of how to sync a folder in Nextcloud that is not the "Nextcloud" folder is: Add folder sync connection Pick a local folder on your computer to sync (for example my Windows Documents folder) Select a destination folder on Nextcloud server (or create new, also called Documents) However, at that stage I am getting a warning: drwxr-xr-x 8 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:47 appdata_octf179zqtl4 Best regards After creating and enabling it I checked and got A+ at last. Will try CLI the next time I need it hopefully never, as I am still scared. I have exactly the same problem since update to NC 15.x, I just ignore it, because settings were good and I did not found the way how to solve it. You can ignore these tables. One of them uses the old $HOME/owncloud folder instead of $HOME/Nextcloud. If you need to override this path for all users, you can set, Configuring Object Storage as Primary Storage, External Storage authentication mechanisms. See the W3C. The solution describes the update from brrrlinguist very well. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 ocs-provider In Nextcloud root folder call, --port="3306" the database port (optional), --password="mysql_user_password" password for the new database. I have mount disk on UCS 4.3. Admin manual says :On other HTTP servers it is recommended to install Nextcloud outside of the document root., Assumptions: Now you can edit your 100-nextcloud.conf and bring it to something like this (my with letsencrypt and nextcloud under /var/www/nextcloud, I also copied your nextcloud.conf here) check what is already there especially regarding IPs and SSL configuration: Hello. I am just scared to make changes in places where I have very little or no experience. But in case /var/www/nextcloud/ it is not possible to get A+ on scan.nextcloud.com with a __Host-Prefix security hardening issue. Change the permission of your new data location: sudo chmod 0770 /mnt . Storage configuration. with the question Continue with the conversion? By default all users have access. Thank you very much for your explanation. nextcloud.import: Import data exported from another Nextcloud snap instance (via nextcloud.export). Next Official Post . /var/ncNewData >> 777 If altering the database on data dir transfer is recommended, then this should be just the same when migrating a Nextcloud instance to a different server and having a different data dir path there. Can someone assist? Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path, https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/20/admin_manual/configuration_server/occ_command.html#command-line-installation-label. I would probably just start over in this case or do a lot of reading on how those permissions are set. Dude, thank you so much for this. Honestly, I configured nextcloud, based on owncloud.As for owncloud itself, I configured it manually, not via the installer it provides, so I can't help you here. E.g. These files will be copied only to new users after their initial login, and Disable maintenance mode sudo -u www php /usr/www/nextcloud/occ maintence:mode --off 7. BeakerRocks 3 yr. ago. Hmm, as long as the www-data has R/W access, everything else should not matter. Update storage location: sudo vim /var/snap/nextcloud/current/nextcloud/config/config.php change data location: 'datadirectory' => '/media/storage/data', Move the data directory to the storage device: sudo mv /var/snap/nextcloud/common/nextcloud/data /media/storage/ Start nextcloud snap: sudo snap start nextcloud Share Improve this answer Follow CWSpear/local-persist Thus, I use the same. Make your admin user as usual and carry on, Nextcloud is using the external data. drwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 . Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Nextcloud Data directory. drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 resources Because you edit config and try to disable site. I mean a dummy nextcloud user. Don't forget to change it back to false when you are finished. What I am thinking of is sharing out this Samba share to the Nextcloud VM, mount it within the Nextcloud VM using /etc/fstab to some directory, then pointing the data folder during the installation to the locally mounted Samba share. In the Configuration field enter the full filepath of the directory you want to mount.. I have Rpi 4 with 2gb and 2 5TB HDD on RAID 1. Developer . You therefore need to replace the nextcloud volume with a bind mount instead, I.E. Thanks, was able to review the document and move the data directory to a new one. sudo mount --bind /mnt/kids /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/data, All you need to do is append the path of your new data directory in the file, php_admin_value open_basedir "/srv/http/:/dev/urandom:/tmp/:/usr/share/pear/:/usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/:/etc/webapps/nextcloud:/srv/clouddata", [Solved] Nextcloud, change Data folder location. Hello. 000-default-le-ssl.conf - per default serving your HTTPS requests with document root /var/www/html. With the default data directory everything works fine. But to be sure and not mess up the database with obsolete entries it is recommended to replace the old entry with the new one manually as mentioned in solution 1. Once, to store nextcloud data, I created a raid and mounted it in a separate directory. > Everything under *-available is something that you could use, but it is not. Could you please check my current config? Leave You can add additional folders to the synchronisation in the settings of the client. based on https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap/wiki/Change-data-directory-to-use-another-disk-partition there are two possibilities to change the data directory in context of installation: before and after creating the admin user. Try to enable it and disable old config: Check if it woks as before. Missing permissions. Press J to jump to the feed. Please contact your administrator. I did a lot of other experiments like changing the snap enviroment variable NEXTCLOUD_DATA_DIR which is used in autoconfig.php with no success. Has anyone fixed been about to get it working. Overwriting the files in core/skeleton is not recommended, Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path 'datadirectory' => '/usr/local/www/nextcloud/nextclouddata/data' 6. You could also use the Nextcloud database user, where /path/to/nextcloud/config/config.php provides its name and password. I installed nextcloud in a docker container, I can access to the interface. How do you remove user from client sync? Change the ownCloud configuration to point to the new data directory. Also I think its best if I do this with the whole thing turned off, do all the things on the external hard drive, then take the SD card out of the Raspberry Pi, create the symlink and modify the fstab this way. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 3910 Mar 11 10:52 console.php > Everything under *-enabled is something are using now. You are absolutely right - I am not looking to have a backup in case my files are deleted; rather I am looking to have a backup in case my own PC/Mac/Mobile device drive fails, so there is a perfect copy of specific folders on Nextcloud. Check your folder /etc/apache2/sites-enables/there should be something like 000-default.conf this is your site configuration. Click on Choose file or folder to transfer >> A file picker opens, showing all files and folders in the user's account. It could be that nextcloud.conf is also there, then run a2disconf nextcloud.conf. But note that synchronisation is not a backup. At the moment the data folder is located under /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/data (I need to move this to /mnt/drivex/data) and I don't have any conf folder under /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud Hard Drive 2 with 2TB should be only have the files which are stored in nextcloud. By default this imports the database, config, and data. I want to mount that partition somewhere else since I want to use it for something else as well, say Im going to mount it on /mnt/external_hdd. Great work, all! On the left side under Administration select External Storage. Even if the data directory above is writable by root, if any part of the path above it (e.g. Heres a screenshot (in German). I always received permissions errors for user1. 000-default.conf - per default serving you HTTP requests with document root /var/www/html. New data location: /var/ncNewData/user1. /media, or /media/nextcloud) is not accessible by root, it will not be able to access data either. You may distribute a set of default files and folders to all users by placing Whats important in this file is the mapping between path within the Docker and the volume name: This will tell docker-compose that the /var/www/html will be in your volume that you created and named nextcloud-data. Haven't tried to move data location but other users did and pointed to some guides: Trying to change nextcloud data location Support I don't know trueNAS, but if you copy the data to the new location, you could either create a symlink to the new folder or edit the filepath in your nextcloud config.php. Mount the dataset you want to the nextcloud jail and called it what you want , mine would be "nextclouddata", 3. It should show up if you click on the three dots next to your username / account. 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