But a definit solution to rule out any issues would be if Nextcloud altered the database automatically according to config.txt entry, to have a single matching entry for local data dir only. I still get Data directory (/mnt/myexternaldrive/nextcloud) is invalid. Ill dig into it by times to check for safe ways to identify the correct entries. The config.php entry must be changed. What exactley does not work? (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). Please see the discussion, where it is mentioned that editing the database entry is indeed not required (as far as it was tested). My NC config was in sites-enabled and your in conf-available. See nextcloud.export -h for more information. Moving Nextcloud database to external drive. Pick a file or folder and click on Choose >> The chosen file or folder name gets displayed. Anyone knows how to change / move the nextcloud data to a new directory? It could be that nextcloud.conf is also there, then run a2disconf nextcloud.conf. I am wondering if it is possible to create a Samba share for Nextcloud that it can use as a data folder. Move the nextcloud data folder to new directory, 5. The data folder. I just installed next cloud and it is up and running. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 362 Mar 11 10:56 version.php, /mnt/MyData/nextcloud What is the best location for the nextcloud data directory. In the Folder name field enter the folder name that you want to appear on your Nextcloud Files page.. The default path for user templates is at /Templates (translated in the users language). The methods here are still valid. Error with the data file location and it doesnt work. I dont have the second menu with status setzen, abmelden and Konto Lschen there. So, I have 3 computers syncing files with a nextcloud 12 server. You mean the UNIX user1? For example. So, other nextcloud users will not have a problem. Please contact your administrator. It should show up if you click on the three dots next to your username / account. Change the permission of your new data location: sudo chmod 0770 /mnt . Hello! The entire /mnt/MyData now have permissions (set with sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt Im not sure how secure this is but it works. Something Ill edit in the HowTo another day . -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. What about other app on server? You can use any backup software that supports WebDAV for that purpose. 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. I am very impressed with this forum! Dude, thank you so much for this. What do I do if an update breaks Nextcloud. But in case /var/www/nextcloud/ it is not possible to get A+ on scan.nextcloud.com with a __Host-Prefix security hardening issue. Don't forget to change it back to false when you are finished. 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 . If you have any guide or video link to help, Ill appreciate it. But see this post of nickvergessen that it is still the recommended way to keep the database entries clean and consistent. Hey, did you ever find any solutions for this? See Configuring External Storage (GUI) for additional mount options and . In the Available for field enter the users or groups who have permission to access the mount. edit: Heres a site config file for Apache that works with the above setup and has strong SSL settings. This is not required. So yes, your idea works fine, as of Solution 1. The theme folder. GitHub Set up with 2 hard drives in raid 0 server error appliances (Docker, Snappy, VM, NCP) Im installing Nextcloud 18.0.2 manually onto a Raspberry Pi 4 (Raspian 10 - Buster), using MariaDB. nextcloud.import: Import data exported from another Nextcloud snap instance (via nextcloud.export). Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. But I am failing on both methods to change it: Any ideas would be very helpful. testing and simple single-user Nextcloud servers, but it does not scale for This is how to install s. empty to not copy any skeleton files. On the left side under Administration select External Storage. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 ocs-provider Basically of config.php does not contain a matching entry, Nextcloud could remove all obsolete ones before adding the correct new one. Edited 2 times, last by Alomon (Feb 3rd 2020). Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. which are not used any more. Move /data to the new location What Information do you need? Great work, all! drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 files_external 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. Interested in helping us evaluate a pull request? Has anyone fixed been about to get it working. Personal spot :: https://www.smirky.net/ :: Try not to get lost! Enable maintenance mode (install sudo if you don't have it already in the jail), 4. The data folder is where users' files are stored. Decide where you want the new data to live. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 ocm-provider -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 2976 Mar 11 10:52 index.php 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.). -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 0 Mar 15 15:46 index.html Nextcloud's occ command (origins from "ownCloud Console") is Nextcloud's command-line interface. First, list out all of your installed apps with the command: sudo -u www-data php occ app:list. Snap/Docker thank you, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:31:29), In /usr/share/webapps/nextcloud/config/config.php, 'datadirectory' => ''. drwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 . #nextcloud #hyperv #snap #ubuntu #windows #directory #change Nextcloud snap new setup and data changing directory to windows shared. As there still appear qu. Hard Drive 2 with 2TB should be only have the files which are stored in nextcloud. See nextcloud.import -h for more You should generally not touch the the files directly outside of Nextcloud. To access the settings for configuring external storage mounts, click on your Profile icon in the top right and select settings from the dropdown. Therefore it creates the tables oc_storages for the data directory and oc_filecache for the files. With the default data directory everything works fine. 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. 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. PS: of course since youre running that on a Windows Server 2018, youll have to adapt the path. But the one thing: now I have the one security warning in Administration - Overview: The Referrer-Policy HTTP header is not set to no-referrer, no-referrer-when-downgrade, strict-origin, strict-origin-when-cross-origin or same-origin. This allows you to Make sure root has write access, but it's not accessible by others, for example: Important: Posix permissions take the entire path into account. 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. Could you please check my current config? Next Official Post . @b-pfl there is only one data dir for all users (of course subdirs each user) and there should be a protection against symlinks from inside the data dir to outside. Nextcloud directory can be found at /usr/share/nextcloud. Disable maintenance mode sudo -u www php /usr/www/nextcloud/occ maintence:mode --off 7. drwxr-xr-x 23 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:57 core Thanks for the guidance. I didnt find any tutorial for this precise use case but I can give you some answer. The folder /var/ncData/user1 is the data folder from the dummy nextcloud user1. 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. overwrite the files that are shipped by default with Nextcloud in 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. Then you switch the data-dir in config/config.php /var/ncNewData >> 777 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. So, if it is a bug, it still not fixed in the latest version. 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. Can someone assist? Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Im new to nexcloud but I want to use it. Anyone have the same problem can help me? After creating and enabling it I checked and got A+ at last. You might consider /srv/nextcloud/data. On success the converter will automatically configure the new database in your I have tried running chmod -R o+s ./html, but it doesn't seem to do anything, and I have also tried setfacl -d -m o::--- ./html, but it errors with . I followed all the steps for Solution 1 from @MichaIng and it went well. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. move your data, Note that the below does not apply to Nextcloud containers/appliances. CWSpear/local-persist Am I understood correct: after creating this config, the old one which is: /etc/apache2/conf-available/nextcloud.conf ? in the sync client, click the three dots on the right, select remove folder synchronisation, Did you set open_basedir? drwxr-xr-x 6 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 lib 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. @Andy3153 I replaced my screenshot in order to make it more obvious where to click. You can do it with docker-compose like in this docker-compose.yml to adapt at your needs. apps will not be converted even with option --all-apps. That custom directory should then be configured in the 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. You therefore need to replace the nextcloud volume with a bind mount instead, I.E. drwxr-xr-x 2 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 ocs 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. 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. Hi nextcloud forum, drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Mar 15 15:38 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 Assuming all of the above, also make sure www-data (your web user) owns everything recursively in /var/www/nextcloud/ and /opt/nextcloud/ when youve finished setting things up (before launching the install wizard). Im about to do a fresh re-install, and Ill use your suggested configuration. 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. If you updated your Nextcloud instance, there might be remnants of old tables The new root nextcloud user data location for this single nextcloud user ist now /var/ncNewData. I also tried Solution 2 to change a data folder just for a single user (user1) with a Symlink. You can add additional folders to the synchronisation in the settings of the client. Enable maintenance mode for your instance. server. This can leak referer information. 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? No, not an unix user. This allows you to overwrite the files that are shipped by default with Nextcloud in core/skeleton. This is not possible btw. 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. How do you remove user from client sync? Thus, I use the same. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 101 Mar 11 10:52 .user.ini I dont like 777 permissions, so perhaps somebody can give us an advice if this is a security issue or not. If so then add your new data-folder! 000-default-le-ssl.conf - per default serving your HTTPS requests with document root /var/www/html. existing users will not see files that are added to this directory after their Stop Apache. drwxr-xr-x 33 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:56 3rdparty As I understand it, if using Apache, putting Nextcloud in the web root filer is 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. affecting the originals. Then go to settings. You could also use the Nextcloud database user, where /path/to/nextcloud/config/config.php provides its name and password. SQLite is good for 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. I was going to go for the easy method but read the warning from @nickvergessen on DB integrity topic and decided against it. Admin manual says :On other HTTP servers it is recommended to install Nextcloud outside of the document root., Assumptions: can't cd into nextcloud data directory. So this is ok. Add-ons --> My Add-ons --> Nextcloud --> Configure --> Map /data. 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. 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. click add folder synchronisation. > Everything under *-enabled is something are using now. It is a hidden file), the entire data directory is owned by the web user (www-data on Debian/Ubuntu and the derivatives. My data folder is on an external hard drive, at the root of a partition on it. This is really helpful. the schema definitions in the apps to create the new table. You can move the folder and edit the config. Navigate to Settings > Personal > Sharing > Files. Storage configuration. Note that it requires sudo. To successfully proceed with the conversion, you must type yes when prompted You can convert a SQLite database to a better performing MySQL, MariaDB or Even if the data directory above is writable by root, if any part of the path above it (e.g. To create a new external storage mount, select an available backend from the dropdown Add storage. Replace the current directory location with the one where you have copied the data folder. drwxr-xr-x 14 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:39 . drwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 data I always received permissions errors for user1. The admin isnt quite clear about this so I have a couple of questions: To create a persistent volume named "nextcloud-data": docker volume create -d local-persist -o mountpoint=/data/nextcloud-data --name=nextcloud-data Then, you'll have to map this volume to your Nextcloud docker when you create it. 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. 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. By default this includes the Nextcloud database, configuration, and data. Im in the same boat running a raid on ubuntu but unable to change data dir. 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. thanks, Last edited by chittu (2016-11-05 05:34:10). 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: Your webroot is /var/www/, and youll want to change the location of your data folder. because those changes will be overwritten on the next update of the Nextcloud Nextcloud standard webroot: /var/www/html/nextcloud/ Start a shell in the Nextcloud container ( docker exec -it name-of-nc-container bash) and run chown -R www-data: /var/www/html. Ive mounted the folder I want from the dataset, but struggling how to move the nextcloud data directory to the new directory. I performed the following steps: I was given an error message, stating that Nextcloud could not read nor write to the given directory. Hence for me, phpMyAdmin was a boon. Edit 1: was able to resolve it. unfortunately it doesnt work does anyone have another solution? Then you switch the data-dir in config/config.php -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 15752 Mar 11 10:52 AUTHORS The files in the skeleton directory are copied into the Add it to fstab so it is mounted at boot. Change the ownCloud configuration to point to the new data directory. My standard permissions for folders are 750 and for files 640. Change default data folder. webroot: /var/www/html/ My Site config example was listed here: This is my LIVE config for NC ( 100-nextcloud.conf ). Although phpMyAdmin provides a nice GUI, it is not required to alter the database. If i clicked on beenden it immedeately ended. We'll use /media/nextcloud/data. Would like to be able to copy/move files in this directory to an external drive for backup. First set up the new database, here called new_db_name. 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. Youll have to create a volume with local-persist driver. BTW, Im using Nextcloud 16.0.3. New data location: /var/ncNewData/user1. $ ls /etc/apache2/sites-enabled Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file sync & communication app platform. Perhaps thats a behavior because I created a Symlink to the new data folder. So tables of removed Developer . which can be created with the following command: sudo mkdir /var/www/nextcloud-data 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. See the W3C. Nextcloud standard data directory: /var/www/html/nextcloud/data/. I found this stupid issue. aptalca. To cd into the directory as sudo. Hence, intense search on changing Data after install. Locate the app in question from that list and then disable the offending app with the command: sudo . There should be an option to delete or remove the account. The partition you want to use must be mounted somewhere in /media/ or /mnt/. As you can see in my 100-nextcloud.conf, it has line: Header always set Referrer-Policy no-referrer. 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. 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 Check your folder /etc/apache2/sites-enables/there should be something like 000-default.conf this is your site configuration. total 52 Double-check the directory permissions on the new directory. 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. 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? users data directories, so they may change and delete the files without Leave The data dir entry/entries should be identifyable, although I know there are local:: entries as well for every user. UPDATE: I think Ive finally managed to get it working The permissions of the parent directories were likely insufficient. I am running Docker on Windows Server 2016. This has probably been addressed many times but I just couldnt figure out the appropriate search keywords to find the answer. I would probably just start over in this case or do a lot of reading on how those permissions are set. 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 changed the data folder just for one user in my example. 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. drwxrr-- 4 pi pi 4096 Mar 15 15:51 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. Thats a bit strange for me because also my standard data folder (/var/ncData/) has 750 and thats work fine. 000-default.conf 000-default-le-ssl.conf, My nextcloud.conf is here: Decide where you want the new data to live. 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. Stop apache. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 3910 Mar 11 10:52 console.php It seems that the umask is set to 0000 by default. I also set symlink ownership and set the actual data folder ownership (like described in solution2). FreeNAS is now TrueNAS. NTFS). one, do a suggestion to have it added. Press J to jump to the feed. Admin or other sers will use the user folder whats stated in the nextcloud config (/var/ncData/). Sure I guess hacking could take place to achieve that, but Id like to rather not do this. You then said to use the following command sudo chmod 0770 directory_name, which I also did. 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. > Everything under *-available is something that you could use, but it is not. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 34520 Mar 11 10:52 COPYING 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?" 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. /var/ncNewData/user1/ >> 750 etc. Restart apache. 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. Also NextCloudPi might provide own solutions: https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi You told me to cd and find the directory where the data folder is stored which I did. Try 30days Free Nextcloud Trial and add your own domain to:=====https://bit.ly/3CGiKwQ=====#Nextcloud #Nextclouders #tabdigitalGet service grade: A+ Ne. 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. Not sure then Btw. They appear on the users Nextcloud Files page just like any other files. Nextcloud stores the data directory location and all it's files locations inside it's database, that can be chosen during installation as well. That custom directory should then be configured in the config.php via the configuration option skeletondirectory (see Configuration Parameters ). Make your admin user as usual and carry on, Nextcloud is using the external data. HowTo: Change / Move data directory after installation howto So I tried the original setup (putting data in /var/www/html/nextcloud/data), and got through the installation. And then you must rescan all with occ, sudo -u www-data php occ files:scan --all, https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/19/admin_manual/configuration_server/occ_command.html, Wyh not NextcloudPi https://ownyourbits.com/nextcloudpi/, You set the correct rights for your nextcloud user for /mnt/external_hdd/nextcloud (use a linux formatted file system like ext4 or btfs). 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! 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. Powered by Discourse, best viewed with JavaScript enabled, HowTo: Change / Move data directory after installation. But now I would like to have all data in a different drive. /media, or /media/nextcloud) is not accessible by root, it will not be able to access data either. 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. So, possibly it is somehow related to it. Use Rsync to sync the files from the current to the new directory. Is there any difference? 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