Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. After that save it: CTRL+O and exit using CTRL+X. On the host the files will be owned by some . 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: Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path 'datadirectory' => '/usr/local/www/nextcloud/nextclouddata/data' 6. Has anyone fixed been about to get it working. It should show up if you click on the three dots next to your username / account. You can convert a SQLite database to a better performing MySQL, MariaDB or I dont have the second menu with status setzen, abmelden and Konto Lschen there. Press J to jump to the feed. Basically of config.php does not contain a matching entry, Nextcloud could remove all obsolete ones before adding the correct new one. I had not this warning message until moved to virtual host from my old config. Backup folders Simply copy your config, data and theme folders (or even your whole Nextcloud install and data folder) to a place outside of your Nextcloud environment. Disable maintenance mode sudo -u www php /usr/www/nextcloud/occ maintence:mode --off 7. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 0 Mar 15 15:46 index.html The respective partition is mounted at /var/nextcloud, and thats where Nextcloud looks for its data folder. Interested in helping us evaluate a pull request? The partition you want to use must be mounted somewhere in /media/ or /mnt/. I mean a dummy nextcloud user. I replaced my screenshot in order to make it more obvious where to click. But in case /var/www/nextcloud/ it is not possible to get A+ on scan.nextcloud.com with a __Host-Prefix security hardening issue. @b-pfl What Information do you need? Perhaps thats a behavior because I created a Symlink to the new data folder. If you need to override this path for all users, you can set, Configuring Object Storage as Primary Storage, External Storage authentication mechanisms. can't cd into nextcloud data directory. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 ocs-provider drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:41 drwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 data, /mnt/MyData/nextcloud/data (identical to /var/www/html/nextcloud/data) I managed to get to step 8, but as soon as I try to switch off maintenance mode, I get the following error: Does anybody know why this is happening? Change the permission of your new data location: sudo chmod 0770 /mnt . Bash shell commands like "cd" can't be "sudo'ed", so do this: $ sudo -i. now you can cd into the directory and do what you like. @nickvergessen By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. See nextcloud.export -h for more information. edit: Heres a site config file for Apache that works with the above setup and has strong SSL settings. Make your admin user as usual and carry on, Nextcloud is using the external data. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 101 Mar 11 10:52 .user.ini You can perform many common server operations with occ, such as installing and upgrading Nextcloud, manage users, encryption, passwords, LDAP setting, and more. Click on Choose file or folder to transfer >> A file picker opens, showing all files and folders in the user's account. I installed nextcloud in a docker container, I can access to the interface. By default this imports the database, config, and data. Because you edit config and try to disable site. 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. 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 . You can ignore these tables. Under administrative settings you can allow users to mount external storage. With the default data directory everything works fine. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 2647 Mar 15 15:46 .htaccess This would explain why moving a single users data outside via symlink leads to permissions denied, because it would follow a symlink. Actually using Nextcloud database user is the much better way, since it has only permissions to alter the Nextcloud database and no other, hence one cannot by accident break something within other databases. I am very impressed with this forum! Well the question is which storage to update. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Pick a file or folder and click on Choose >> The chosen file or folder name gets displayed. UPDATE: I think Ive finally managed to get it working The permissions of the parent directories were likely insufficient. Stop Apache. Indeed your statement (hence this HowTo) and Nextcloud docs do not match here. But anyway the warning still exists. server. drwxr-xr-x 6 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 lib You told me to cd and find the directory where the data folder is stored which I did. Nextcloud standard webroot: /var/www/html/nextcloud/ PostgreSQL database with the Nextcloud command line tool. But now I would like to have all data in a different drive. which are not used any more. Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory mv /usr/local/www/nextcloud/data /usr/local/www/nextcloud/nextclouddata 5. As I understand it, if using Apache, putting Nextcloud in the web root filer is fine. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 156 Mar 11 10:52 index.html So, I have 3 computers syncing files with a nextcloud 12 server. Then I tried to follow the instructions from @MichaIng to change the data directory (specifically Solution 1). I am wondering if it is possible to create a Samba share for Nextcloud that it can use as a data folder. But note that synchronisation is not a backup. HowTo: Change / Move data directory after installation howto Please describe in as much detail as possible what you are trying to achieve and what you already tried? Then, youll have to map this volume to your Nextcloud docker when you create it. > Everything under *-enabled is something are using now. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Appliances (Docker, Snappy, VM, NCP, AIO). drwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 data Edit 1: was able to resolve it. Thanks you for a question, just get an A+ after reconfiguring my server, Run a2dissite nextcloud.conf to disable this particular config and reload apache2 should be enough to take new config: service apache2 reload, I tried to comment alias and add the DocumentRoot in my /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf. Nextcloud data location change Installation NC17 on Debian 10 and transfer the data folder to the NAS tflidd January 28, 2018, 4:53pm 2 Please check the parent folders as well, www-data needs to be able to read and execute within them. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Thanks for pointing me the right direction. I rechecked the ownership from the new data folder, chown -R www-data:www-data /var/ncNewData/, and this solved it. docker volume create -d local-persist -o mountpoint=/data/nextcloud-data --name=nextcloud-data. Is there a way to do that ? 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. 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. Haven't tried to move data location but other users did and pointed to some guides: Trying to change nextcloud data location Support For example. FreeNAS is now TrueNAS. Change data directory to use another disk/partition. 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. 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. and then I run ln -s /mnt/external_hdd/nextcloud /var/nextcloud, right? Anyone have the same problem can help me? I got into "Can't create or write into the data directory /mnt/nextcloud", Now I tried to setup a fresh nextcloud where I want to choose the location during the installation and still I am having the same problem, I did change the permission as below and have the same error (Can't create or write into the data directory /mnt/nextcloud), New installation accepts only the location "/usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/data", where is the problem and how do I fix this? Is there any difference? The entire /mnt/MyData now have permissions (set with sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt Im not sure how secure this is but it works. I looked in the configuration file for the path to the data directory (all user files are stored in it): . I am just scared to make changes in places where I have very little or no experience. I would probably just start over in this case or do a lot of reading on how those permissions are set. 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. I copied the data directory to a new folder and indicated the owner and rights on behalf of which the web server is working: I was able to figure it out. Did you set open_basedir? 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. I found this stupid issue. 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. Change default data folder. with the question Continue with the conversion? 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. I need to change thatso all 3 have the same path, but I would like to avoid re-starting the whole sync process from zero. Locate the app in question from that list and then disable the offending app with the command: sudo . It is a hidden file), the entire data directory is owned by the web user (www-data on Debian/Ubuntu and the derivatives. I have all the right permissions and there should be no issue with reading and writing, but it still occurs. to exit: $ exit To . Hence for me, phpMyAdmin was a boon. Im trying to move to two 500gb raid 0 drives. The folder /var/ncData/user1 is the data folder from the dummy nextcloud user1. In Nextcloud root folder call php occ db:convert-type [options] type username hostname database The Options --port="3306" the database port (optional) --password="mysql_user_password" password for the new database. 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? I performed the following steps: I was given an error message, stating that Nextcloud could not read nor write to the given directory. Hi. Installed as a snap. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 3056 Mar 11 10:52 public.php The data folder. I would go to the folder /etc/apache2/sites-available and create there file e.g. If you delete something on your Mac inside of one of these folders, it also gets deleted on your Nextcloud server and vice versa. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 34520 Mar 11 10:52 COPYING 000-default.conf 000-default-le-ssl.conf, My nextcloud.conf is here: This is not possible btw. drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 themes If you use the Nextcloud Docker container, the GitHub page might give some hints as well: https://github.com/nextcloud/docker drwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 . With the default data directory everything works fine. I changed the data folder just for one user in my example. Replace the current directory location with the one where you have copied the data folder. My Site config example was listed here: This is my LIVE config for NC ( 100-nextcloud.conf ). Dude, thank you so much for this. . -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 0 Mar 15 15:46 .ocdata, Additionally, I have tried Solution 2 (symlinking), but I get stuck again on the same step (turning maintenance mode off) with the same exact error message. They appear on the users Nextcloud Files page just like any other files. Will try CLI the next time I need it hopefully never, as I am still scared. Youll have to create a volume with local-persist driver. Double-check the directory permissions on the new directory. So, if it is a bug, it still not fixed in the latest version. drwxr-xr-x 14 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:39 . 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. volumes: - nextcloud:/var/www/html Using the above as an example, /var/www/html sits inside the container and nextcloud is a Docker volume on your Docker host, the location of which you don't (easily) have control of. Am I understood correct: after creating this config, the old one which is: /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf ? empty to not copy any skeleton files. I'm running NextCloud on Docker for Windows from within Ubuntu WSL. Edit 1: Solved, I was able to move it to a new directory, Mount the dataset you want to the nextcloud jail and called it what you want , mine would be "nextclouddata", 3. You can always delete the account from the app and remove or better rename the local folder and start from scratch. The theme folder. Nextcloud (Mint/Apache) SSL on port 8888/443 not working, What are the things I should be extra careful with if I do this (ie: dont change .htaccess etc.). One of them uses the old $HOME/owncloud folder instead of $HOME/Nextcloud. Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path. Contains 2 Virtual hosts (IP 192.168.0.100 is internal local IP of the server), on port 80 I will do only redirect to the HTTPS and thats all: Only difference that you have to comment to get it A+: I have only the following files in there: -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 26 Mar 11 10:52 robots.txt Hello. My challenge was that I couldnt get NCPi to target to RAID as I was doing a fresh install and RAID was built after NCPi was installed. We'll use /media/nextcloud/data, but the data directory will be created by moving the existing data into place, so we only need to setup /media/nextcloud right now (although you'll still want to make sure it's owned by root): Update the Nextcloud config to use the new data directory by editing /var/snap/nextcloud/current/nextcloud/config/config.php and making sure the datadirectory setting is pointing to the right place, e.g. My NC config was in sites-enabled and your in conf-available. 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. But after this Ive got Not Found trying to open my Nextcloud in a browser. 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