Thanks for advice, MichaIng. I am just scared to make changes in places where I have very little or no experience. 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. my permissions: Especially if your non-dummy admin Nextcloud user can access the files, from UNIX permissions side, all Nextcloud users must be able, as long as they have Nextcloud-internal permissions of course. Check your folder /etc/apache2/sites-enables/there should be something like 000-default.conf this is your site configuration. In the Configuration field enter the full filepath of the directory you want to mount.. It could be that nextcloud.conf is also there, then run a2disconf nextcloud.conf. Well the question is which storage to update. I had not this warning message until moved to virtual host from my old config. Logging an issue? Thats my config: /var/ncData/user1 I also tried Solution 2 to change a data folder just for a single user (user1) with a Symlink. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 ocm-provider existing users will not see files that are added to this directory after their 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. Am I understood correct: after creating this config, the old one which is: /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf ? Anyone have the same problem can help me? Has anyone fixed been about to get it working. How do you remove user from client sync? Then go to settings. Thank you very much for your explanation. 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 . I installed nextcloud in a docker container, I can access to the interface. If you updated your Nextcloud instance, there might be remnants of old tables 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. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. They appear on the users Nextcloud Files page just like any other files. Make sure root has write access, but it's not accessible by others, for example: Important: Posix permissions take the entire path into account. I'm running NextCloud on Docker for Windows from within Ubuntu WSL. For example. Haven't tried to move data location but other users did and pointed to some guides: Trying to change nextcloud data location Support CWSpear/local-persist I rechecked the ownership from the new data folder, chown -R www-data:www-data /var/ncNewData/, and this solved it. Can someone assist? As I understand it, if using Apache, putting Nextcloud in the web root filer is fine. Installed as a snap. 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. All the files in the data folder need to be owned by the www-data user of the container. If Nextcloud finds no matching database entry, it creates an additional one, which then works fine according to quick tests and user reports above. Hence for me, phpMyAdmin was a boon. 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: Please describe in as much detail as possible what you are trying to achieve and what you already tried? : Move (or copy) the current data directory to the new place: And you should be up and running using external storage for Nextcloud's data. affecting the originals. Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 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. You could also use the Nextcloud database user, where /path/to/nextcloud/config/config.php provides its name and password. users data directories, so they may change and delete the files without so all the data in and under /var/www/html (as the container sees it) actually resides on your . 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. Locate the app in question from that list and then disable the offending app with the command: sudo . But now I would like to have all data in a different drive. That custom directory should then be configured in the config.php via the configuration option skeletondirectory (see Configuration Parameters ). with the question Continue with the conversion? I looked in the configuration file for the path to the data directory (all user files are stored in it): . Stop Apache. 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. I copied the data directory to a new folder and indicated the owner and rights on behalf of which the web server is working: We'll use /media/nextcloud/data. no file access r/w for user1 was possible. 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 Is there any difference? Choose a displayed folder name and SMB / CIFS. First, list out all of your installed apps with the command: sudo -u www-data php occ app:list. total 52 Hence, intense search on changing Data after install. Pick a file or folder and click on Choose >> The chosen file or folder name gets displayed. I tried to search it via Google but could not find a tutorial to achive it. 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. I was going to go for the easy method but read the warning from @nickvergessen on DB integrity topic and decided against it. I think the idea here is that in case of a web server malfunction or breach that it could theoretically straight up serve your files on the web page. which can be created with the following command: sudo mkdir /var/www/nextcloud-data BeakerRocks 3 yr. ago. Im installing Nextcloud 18.0.2 manually onto a Raspberry Pi 4 (Raspian 10 - Buster), using MariaDB. Will try CLI the next time I need it hopefully never, as I am still scared. Developer . Hello everyone. Anyone knows how to change / move the nextcloud data to a new directory? 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.). On the host the files will be owned by some . My NC config was in sites-enabled and your in conf-available. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. click add folder synchronisation. You can do it with docker-compose like in this docker-compose.yml to adapt at your needs. My data folder is on an external hard drive, at the root of a partition on it. For example, I have copied it at /mnt/g/data. You cannot add more folders to the synchronistaion because it already syncs everything on your Nextcloud to the Nextcloud folder on your computer. to exit: $ exit To . The solution describes the update from brrrlinguist very well. Don't forget to change it back to false when you are finished. What about other app on server? -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 2381 Mar 11 10:52 status.php Hi nextcloud forum, 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. After doing so you can use occ to scan the new location and update the database accordingly as needed. #nextcloud #hyperv #snap #ubuntu #windows #directory #change Nextcloud snap new setup and data changing directory to windows shared. Please read: Forum Rules and Wiki pages. @b-pfl Add-ons --> My Add-ons --> Nextcloud --> Configure --> Map /data. Enable maintenance mode for your instance. BTW, Im using Nextcloud 16.0.3. This means that even if I run chmod -R 0770 ./html on my data directory, any new file will still have the incorrect permissions.. 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. server. Youll have to create a volume with local-persist driver. Navigate to Settings > Personal > Sharing > Files. drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 themes 000-default.conf 000-default-le-ssl.conf, My nextcloud.conf is here: It should be ok once you can see a file listing entering this command: You decide what happens with your data, where it is and who can access it! You should generally not touch the the files directly outside of Nextcloud. You can perform many common server operations with occ, such as installing and upgrading Nextcloud, manage users, encryption, passwords, LDAP setting, and more. Please see the discussion, where it is mentioned that editing the database entry is indeed not required (as far as it was tested). 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 Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, HowTo: Change / Move data directory after installation. 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. This allows you to overwrite the files that are shipped by default with Nextcloud in core/skeleton. /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf. Once, to store nextcloud data, I created a raid and mounted it in a separate directory. 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. Configuration Parameters). This would explain why moving a single users data outside via symlink leads to permissions denied, because it would follow a symlink. drwxr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:53 config Thanks a lot, @MichaIng for the clarification. I am wondering if it is possible to create a Samba share for Nextcloud that it can use as a data folder. 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. Note that the below does not apply to Nextcloud containers/appliances. them in directory that is readable by the webserver user. The updater will tell you which ones these are. I have mount disk on UCS 4.3. Then you switch the data-dir in config/config.php Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, Appliances (Docker, Snappy, VM, NCP, AIO). 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. To access the settings for configuring external storage mounts, click on your Profile icon in the top right and select settings from the dropdown. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Thus, I use the same. 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. See the W3C. 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. See nextcloud.import -h for more You can always delete the account from the app and remove or better rename the local folder and start from scratch. Change default data folder. 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. You can ignore these tables. Your webroot is /var/www/, and youll want to change the location of your data folder. Here is the output of sudo ls -la in my /var/www/html/nextcloud directory and my /mnt/MyData/nextcloud directory: /var/www/html/nextcloud: If you have any guide or video link to help, Ill appreciate it. Unfortunately, I cant make a specific recommendation, since I dont use a Mac myself. How can I achive this? The folder /var/ncData/user1 is the data folder from the dummy nextcloud user1. curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CWSpear/local-persist/master/scripts/install.sh | sudo bash, To create a persistent volume named nextcloud-data: You may distribute a set of default files and folders to all users by placing The files in the skeleton directory are copied into the I selected my /data folder on Nextcloud parameters box (on Libreelec), but shouldn't I change something in fstab? Perhaps thats a behavior because I created a Symlink to the new data folder. thank you, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:31:29), In /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/config/config.php, 'datadirectory' => ''. So, if it is a bug, it still not fixed in the latest version. Under administrative settings you can allow users to mount external storage. 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