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. 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 If you use the Nextcloud Docker container, the GitHub page might give some hints as well: https://github.com/nextcloud/docker Also NextCloudPi might provide own solutions: drwxr-xr-x 4 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 resources Note that the below does not apply to Nextcloud containers/appliances. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, HowTo: Change / Move data directory after installation. $ ls /etc/apache2/sites-enabled click add folder synchronisation. Just to mention (because i was thinking of that) there is no need to name your new path data at the very end. It should be ok once you can see a file listing entering this command: HowTo: Change / Move data directory after installation howto Set up with 2 hard drives in raid 0 server error appliances (Docker, Snappy, VM, NCP) By default all users have access. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 156 Mar 11 10:52 index.html The server compare files and update only the new files. I have some problems with Nextcloud after installation app i found my difficult to change my data directory to another disk. The following steps are necessary to move the data directory. BTW, Im using Nextcloud 16.0.3. You can do it with docker-compose like in this docker-compose.yml to adapt at your needs. affecting the originals. Your webroot is /var/www/, and youll want to change the location of your data folder. I first changed the autoconfig.php file data directory location before setting up admin user and then create admin user. Use Rsync to sync the files from the current to the new directory. I dont like 777 permissions, so perhaps somebody can give us an advice if this is a security issue or not. drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 themes thank you, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:31:29), In /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/config/config.php, 'datadirectory' => ''. How can I achive this? Hard Drive 2 with 2TB should be only have the files which are stored in nextcloud. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS You mean the UNIX user1? GitHub - nextcloud/nextcloud-snap/wiki/change-data-directory-to-use . So I tried the original setup (putting data in /var/www/html/nextcloud/data), and got through the installation. Logging an 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. Nextcloud standard webroot: /var/www/html/nextcloud/ PostgreSQL database with the Nextcloud command line tool. At that stage, I am not sure whether to continue or not, in case I break something irrevocably. I replaced my screenshot in order to make it more obvious where to click. I always received permissions errors for user1. Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path. 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? What about other app on server? First, list out all of your installed apps with the command: sudo -u www-data php occ app:list. What exactley does not work? Anyone knows how to change / move the nextcloud data to a new directory? My NC config was in sites-enabled and your in conf-available. Developer . I don't know what steps i need to do to change my data directory. Hello. Stop Apache. Unfortunately, I cant make a specific recommendation, since I dont use a Mac myself. Leave 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. 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. PS: of course since youre running that on a Windows Server 2018, youll have to adapt the path. Decide where you want the new data to live. You set the correct rights for your nextcloud user for /mnt/external_hdd/nextcloud (use a linux formatted file system like ext4 or btfs). Admin manual says :On other HTTP servers it is recommended to install Nextcloud outside of the document root., Assumptions: I also set symlink ownership and set the actual data folder ownership (like described in solution2). drwxr-xr-x 14 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:39 . Will try CLI the next time I need it hopefully never, as I am still scared. After searching forever (3 days), I stumbled upon phpMyadmin, installed it and used the user and password from config file lo behold, I was able to edit the DB. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. Hi Rotational, does it mention to separate Data in the instructions? The entire /mnt/MyData now have permissions (set with sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt Im not sure how secure this is but it works. So, possibly it is somehow related to it. Nextcloud stores the data directory location and all it's files locations inside it's database, that can be chosen during installation as well. Access & sync your files, contacts, calendars and communicate & collaborate across your devices. And here I have little concerns about the 777 permission. Hello everyone. All the files in the data folder need to be owned by the www-data user of the container. I just installed next cloud and it is up and running. 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. The following permission are working now for user1: /var/ncData/user1 >> Symlink 777 (standard) which can be created with the following command: sudo mkdir /var/www/nextcloud-data -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 5235 Mar 11 10:52 remote.php You can do it with docker-compose like in this docker-compose.yml to adapt at your needs. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Press J to jump to the feed. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 15752 Mar 11 10:52 AUTHORS You want it outside of /var/www/. On the host the files will be owned by some . 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. I mean a dummy nextcloud user. The files in the skeleton directory are copied into the Thanks, was able to review the document and move the data directory to a new one. If you need to override this path for all users, you can set, Configuring Object Storage as Primary Storage, External Storage authentication mechanisms. You may distribute a set of default files and folders to all users by placing 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. Then you switch the data-dir in config/config.php Don't forget to change it back to false when you are finished. 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. If you are an administrator, edit the "trusted_domains" setting in config/config.php like the example in config.sample.php. If omitted the tool will ask you (optional), --clear-schema clear schema (optional), --all-apps by default, tables for enabled apps are converted, use to convert also tables of deactivated apps (optional), -n, --no-interaction do not ask any interactive question, Note: The converter searches for apps in your configured app folders and uses 000-default.conf - per default serving you HTTP requests with document root /var/www/html. Ive successfully got the external drive feature to work in nextcloud, but I want the data directory to be using the dataset I want it too. So, other nextcloud users will not have a problem. Well the question is which storage to update. Then Install as normal lets me add a user then try to move the data file over to the raid 0 in the config.php file and when attempt to log in through local host. You signed in with another tab or window. Thatss the nextcloud error message, when I change the permission from the new user folder (/var/ncNewData) to 750 and open a file: fopen(/var/nc_data/user1/files/files.pdf): failed to open stream: Permission denied at /var/www/nextcloud/lib/private/Files/Storage/Local.php#302, If I changed the permission back to 777 and everything works fine. I dont have the second menu with status setzen, abmelden and Konto Lschen there. /var/ncNewData >> 777 Edit 1: was able to resolve it. Then you switch the data-dir in config/config.php . Move /data to the new location 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. thanks, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:34:10). -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 542 Mar 15 15:46 .htaccess Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. It is a hidden file), the entire data directory is owned by the web user (www-data on Debian/Ubuntu and the derivatives. Can i using SSL without domain? But I get your point. How do you remove user from client sync? Now I am trying to figure out how to back up an additional existing folder on my Mac without having to move everything into the Nextcloud folder. In Nextcloud root folder call, --port="3306" the database port (optional), --password="mysql_user_password" password for the new database. users data directories, so they may change and delete the files without These are the only locations the snap can access under confinement with the removable-media plug. For example. The data folder. in the sync client, click the three dots on the right, select remove folder synchronisation, 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. 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. With the default data directory everything works fine. Although phpMyAdmin provides a nice GUI, it is not required to alter the database. 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. Navigate to Settings > Personal > Sharing > Files. The default path for user templates is at /Templates (translated in the users language). With the default data directory everything works fine. drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:41 . That depends on what you mean exactley when you use the term backup. i deinstalled nextcloud-desktop, since I have the network-drive directly mounted now in nautilus, so I cannot debug this further. You can simply stop the server, move data directory, change path in config and start server again. 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. Change default data folder. Pick a file or folder and click on Choose >> The chosen file or folder name gets displayed. Youll have to create a volume with local-persist driver. Disable maintenance mode sudo -u www php /usr/www/nextcloud/occ maintence:mode --off 7. Touching files only with the webserver unix user www-data. If you still have trouble remember your nextcloud.conf. 100-nextcloud.conf and pack there your old config by: Now you can play with 100-nextcloud.conf only. Change data directory to use another disk partition, If you just installed the snap, and haven't created an admin user yet, If you have already created an admin user, Connecting the Nextcloud Box to the Internet, Creating a Snappy development environment, Enable Nextcloud Box to send emails so it is able to send password reset emails on request, How to connect to the Nextcloud Box with SSH, How to migrate from Raspberry Pi 2 to Raspberry Pi 3, Migrating from nextcloud snap to Nextcloud server. Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory, 5. This is how to install s. Then I tried to follow the instructions from @MichaIng to change the data directory (specifically Solution 1). Make sure root has write access, but it's not accessible by others, for example: Important: Posix permissions take the entire path into account. Edit the database: In oc_storages change the path on the local::/old-data-dir/ entry. so all the data in and under /var/www/html (as the container sees it) actually resides on your . Ill dig into it by times to check for safe ways to identify the correct entries. This is not required. Everything should work if I create a folder on that partition, /mnt/external_hdd/nextcloud as an example, then I move everything from that partition into that folder, and then I run ln -s /mnt/external_hdd/nextcloud /var/nextcloud, right? But with this setting no file access r/w for user1 was possible. Missing permissions. Because you edit config and try to disable site. apps will not be converted even with option --all-apps. webroot: /var/www/html/ drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 KimAdmin They appear on the users Nextcloud Files page just like any other files. Ive mounted the folder I want from the dataset, but struggling how to move the nextcloud data directory to the new directory. -rw-r----- 1 www-data www-data 25937 Mar 15 15:49 nextcloud.log But in case /var/www/nextcloud/ it is not possible to get A+ on scan.nextcloud.com with a __Host-Prefix security hardening issue. because those changes will be overwritten on the next update of the Nextcloud If Nextcloud finds no matching database entry, it creates an additional one, which then works fine according to quick tests and user reports above. Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path 'datadirectory' => '/usr/local/www/nextcloud/nextclouddata/data' 6. Would like to be able to copy/move files in this directory to an external drive for backup. What Information do you need? I changed the data folder just for one user in my example. curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CWSpear/local-persist/master/scripts/install.sh | sudo bash, To create a persistent volume named nextcloud-data: Please read: Forum Rules and Wiki pages. Disable maintenance mode sudo -u www php /usr/www/nextcloud/occ maintence:mode --off 7. one, do a suggestion to have it added. These files will be copied only to new users after their initial login, and To create a new external storage mount, select an available backend from the dropdown Add storage. I looked in the configuration file for the path to the data directory (all user files are stored in it): . Installed as a snap. 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 The data dir entry/entries should be identifyable, although I know there are local:: entries as well for every user. However you will want to relocate your data folder completely outside the web folder. The partition you want to use must be mounted somewhere in /media/ or /mnt/. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 362 Mar 11 10:56 version.php, /mnt/MyData/nextcloud That custom directory should then be configured in the config.php via the configuration option skeletondirectory (see Configuration Parameters ). As you can see in my 100-nextcloud.conf, it has line: Header always set Referrer-Policy no-referrer. So, if it is a bug, it still not fixed in the latest version. I could have sworn Ive done this before. Include the output of this script. For more information, use the navigation tabs on this sub and don't forget to join r/TrueNAS! Ensure permissions are still correct. overwrite the files that are shipped by default with Nextcloud in I have only A security check result. Hence for me, phpMyAdmin was a boon. Also note that the interface providing the ability to access removable media is not automatically connected upon install, so if youd like to use external storage (or otherwise use a device in /media or /mnt for data), you need to give the snap permission to access removable media by connecting that interface: Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Snap installation with changed data directory, https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap/wiki/Change-data-directory-to-use-another-disk-partition, Set up with 2 hard drives in raid 0 server error, When I do it after creating the admin user, I fail as described in my other posting, When I do it prior creating the admin user, my changes in file. It seems that the umask is set to 0000 by default. But note that synchronisation is not a backup. You could use this command: 000-default.conf 000-default-le-ssl.conf, My nextcloud.conf is here: 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. Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory mv /usr/local/www/nextcloud/data /usr/local/www/nextcloud/nextclouddata 5. See the W3C. To not mess things, within this thread, lets stay with the provided two solutions or, if you find yours the better (3.) CWSpear/local-persist I just installed next cloud and it is up and running. 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. Heres a screenshot (in German). Indeed your statement (hence this HowTo) and Nextcloud docs do not match here. 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. 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? I'm running NextCloud on Docker for Windows from within Ubuntu WSL. SQLite is good for I tried to search it via Google but could not find a tutorial to achive it. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 283 Mar 11 10:52 occ drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 ocm-provider 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. The solution describes the update from brrrlinguist very well. But the issue with yours is that ALL old oc_filescache entries will stay, hence the database will grow enormously. Dude, thank you so much for this. drwxr-xr-x 8 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:47 appdata_octf179zqtl4 Now you have restore point, you can play only with 100-nextcloud.conf and if something goes really wrong - disable it and enable your 000* defaults. 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. Thats my config: /var/ncData/user1 edit: Heres a site config file for Apache that works with the above setup and has strong SSL settings. Click on Choose file or folder to transfer >> A file picker opens, showing all files and folders in the user's account. Could you please check my current config? drwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 . Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Nextcloud webroot and data directory - best practices on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, Aufruf Nextcloud ber https://meinedomain/Nextcloud statt nur ber https://meinedomain, HowTo: Change / Move data directory after installation, https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloud-snap/wiki/Change-data-directory-to-use-another-disk-partition, Nextcloud 16 Security Scan: __Host-Prefix. which are not used any more. I didnt find any tutorial for this precise use case but I can give you some answer. 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. Hence, intense search on changing Data after install. It should show up if you click on the three dots next to your username / account. move your data, I was able to figure it out. Nextcloud's occ command (origins from "ownCloud Console") is Nextcloud's command-line interface. Please contact your administrator. Ive mounted the folder I want from the dataset, but struggling how to move the nextcloud data directory to the new directory. As there still appear qu. One of them uses the old $HOME/owncloud folder instead of $HOME/Nextcloud. New data location: /var/ncNewData/user1. Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file sync & communication app platform. The mysql command line tool can be used from any shell/terminal/emulator/SSH, according to the HowTo: Usually is root, with MariaDB on modern Debian at least the -p option must or can be omitted when you logged in as root UNIX user. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 101 Mar 11 10:52 .user.ini If you have questions for use in a company or government at scale (>1000 users), do yourself a favor and contact Nextcloud itself - this community is mostly home-user focused! Thank you very much for your explanation. no file access r/w for user1 was possible. I had not this warning message until moved to virtual host from my old config. For a safe moving of data directory, supported by Nextcloud, recommended actions are: Make sure no cron jobs are running. Also in my .htaccess file there is a following section existing: But for some reason the warning message is present. You can perform many common server operations with occ, such as installing and upgrading Nextcloud, manage users, encryption, passwords, LDAP setting, and more. On the left side under Administration select External Storage. and then I run ln -s /mnt/external_hdd/nextcloud /var/nextcloud, right? This protection is important, otherwise users could access the whole system by uploading symlinks, in theory. If so then add your new data-folder! Something Ill edit in the HowTo another day . This would explain why moving a single users data outside via symlink leads to permissions denied, because it would follow a symlink. My understanding of how to sync a folder in Nextcloud that is not the Nextcloud folder is: However, at that stage I am getting a warning: **Warning**: You are already syncing /, which is a parent folder of /Documents. Am I understood correct: after creating this config, the old one which is: /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf ? can't cd into nextcloud data directory. Can someone assist? 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. drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 15 15:38 I still get Data directory (/mnt/myexternaldrive/nextcloud) is invalid. existing users will not see files that are added to this directory after their drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:53 updater Ok I ran touch .ocdata and when signing to web ui through lan ip I was greeted with this `Access through untrusted domain. Any ideas? Double-check the directory permissions on the new directory. Nextcloud data folder is located at /var/lib/nethserver/nextcloud. First set up the new database, here called new_db_name. Nextcloud's occ command (origins from "ownCloud Console") is Nextcloud's command-line interface. drwxr-xr-x 6 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 lib This screenshot shows a set of photos in the skeleton directory. BeakerRocks 3 yr. ago. You can always delete the account from the app and remove or better rename the local folder and start from scratch. > Everything under *-available is something that you could use, but it is not. If you want to have diffrent synchronisation targets on your computer for diffrent folders on your Nextcloud, you should remove the already existing synchronisation of the root folder and then add every folder you want to sync one by one. 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, The only conf file I found is; /etc/httpd/conf/extra/nextcloud.conf, any suggestions on "how to change the location of data folder?" Did you set open_basedir? For example, I have copied it at /mnt/g/data. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 ocs-provider -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. If you updated your Nextcloud instance, there might be remnants of old tables Check your folder /etc/apache2/sites-enables/there should be something like 000-default.conf this is your site configuration. Change the ownCloud configuration to point to the new data directory. I found this stupid issue. Personal spot :: https://www.smirky.net/ :: Try not to get lost! To cd into the directory as sudo. Try to enable it and disable old config: Check if it woks as before. You could also use the Nextcloud database user, where /path/to/nextcloud/config/config.php provides its name and password. 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 . Click on Change to change the choice if necessary. Please describe in as much detail as possible what you are trying to achieve and what you already tried? This is really helpful. 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. 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 drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 files_external On success the converter will automatically configure the new database in your This allows you to What is the best location for the nextcloud data directory. 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: So tables of removed core/skeleton. So by just moving the data directory to another location and change the 'datadirectory' directive inside config.php, the oc_filecache will be full of wrong entries from the old location, where the files entries for the new location are missing, thus no files will be shown inside Nextcloud. So instead of storing users' files under /var/www/nextcloud/data/, we can change it to /var/www/nextcloud-data. If I am not right, please, explain how to fix this when Nextcloud installed in this directory. E.g. Restart apache. /media, or /media/nextcloud) is not accessible by root, it will not be able to access data either. Hi All, I am a newbie here and really appreciate this thriving community. In-depth tutorial on how to install Nextcloud on Ubuntu Server 18.04, how to combine multiple disks into one large virtual directory using mhddfs, how to pro. Also NextCloudPi might provide own solutions: https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi Hello! Then go to settings. 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