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. I selected my /data folder on Nextcloud parameters box (on Libreelec), but shouldn't I change something in fstab? I have all the right permissions and there should be no issue with reading and writing, but it still occurs. If you have any guide or video link to help, Ill appreciate it. I tried to search it via Google but could not find a tutorial to achive it. drwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 data, /mnt/MyData/nextcloud/data (identical to /var/www/html/nextcloud/data) But note that synchronisation is not a backup. May be a bug (?) The data dir entry/entries should be identifyable, although I know there are local:: entries as well for every user. In the Available for field enter the users or groups who have permission to access the mount. Great work, all! 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. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 15752 Mar 11 10:52 AUTHORS Using the same setup, I put Nextcloud in /var/www/nextcloud/, and my Data folder in /opt/nextcloud/data. I rechecked the ownership from the new data folder, chown -R www-data:www-data /var/ncNewData/, and this solved it. Double-check the directory permissions on the new directory. 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. 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. You can always delete the account from the app and remove or better rename the local folder and start from scratch. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 0 Mar 15 15:46 index.html See Configuring External Storage (GUI) for additional mount options and . For example. 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! users data directories, so they may change and delete the files without 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. The folder /var/ncData/user1 is the data folder from the dummy nextcloud user1. The data folder. So, I have 3 computers syncing files with a nextcloud 12 server. There are also few topics about it, but it does not help for me. 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. Under administrative settings you can allow users to mount external storage. The data folder is where users' files are stored. drwxr-x 5 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:46 data Please contact your administrator. Did you set open_basedir? I could have sworn Ive done this before. #nextcloud #hyperv #snap #ubuntu #windows #directory #change Nextcloud snap new setup and data changing directory to windows shared. So I tried the original setup (putting data in /var/www/html/nextcloud/data), and got through the installation. As there still appear qu. To create a new external storage mount, select an available backend from the dropdown Add storage. This allows you to I also tried Solution 2 to change a data folder just for a single user (user1) with a Symlink. Snap/Docker Although phpMyAdmin provides a nice GUI, it is not required to alter the database. Could you please check my current config? Anyone have the same problem can help me? 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. Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path. Moving Nextcloud database to external drive. i deinstalled nextcloud-desktop, since I have the network-drive directly mounted now in nautilus, so I cannot debug this further. Hi nextcloud forum, This can leak referer information. The methods here are still valid. 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. You can perform many common server operations with occ, such as installing and upgrading Nextcloud, manage users, encryption, passwords, LDAP setting, and more. I don't know what steps i need to do to change my data directory. That custom directory should then be configured in the These are the only locations the snap can access under confinement with the removable-media plug. That custom directory should then be configured in the config.php via the configuration option skeletondirectory (see Configuration Parameters ). There should be an option to delete or remove the account. server. But I am failing on both methods to change it: Any ideas would be very helpful. You can add additional folders to the synchronisation in the settings of the client. This has probably been addressed many times but I just couldnt figure out the appropriate search keywords to find the answer. Stop apache. How do you remove user from client sync? Basically of config.php does not contain a matching entry, Nextcloud could remove all obsolete ones before adding the correct new one. That will change the owner and group of all files under /var/www/html to www-data. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 362 Mar 11 10:56 version.php, /mnt/MyData/nextcloud 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?" Touching files only with the webserver unix user www-data. Is there any difference? 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. 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: Next Official Post . If you need to override this path for all users, you can set, Configuring Object Storage as Primary Storage, External Storage authentication mechanisms. I have no clue on DBs so this was a challenge. 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. Developer . $ ls /etc/apache2/sites-enabled This screenshot shows a set of photos in the skeleton directory. I dont have the second menu with status setzen, abmelden and Konto Lschen there. 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 . 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? Hello everyone. drwxrr-- 4 pi pi 4096 Mar 15 15:51 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. 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: 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. I looked in the configuration file for the path to the data directory (all user files are stored in it): . Edited 2 times, last by Alomon (Feb 3rd 2020). > Everything under *-available is something that you could use, but it is not. Logging an issue? That depends on what you mean exactley when you use the term backup. The theme folder. I am wondering if it is possible to create a Samba share for Nextcloud that it can use as a data folder. drwxr-xr-x 6 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 11 10:52 lib If you are an administrator, edit the "trusted_domains" setting in config/config.php like the example in config.sample.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.). 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. Then I tried to follow the instructions from @MichaIng to change the data directory (specifically Solution 1). On the host the files will be owned by some . Anyone knows how to change / move the nextcloud data to a new directory? You can see details here: To not mess things, within this thread, lets stay with the provided two solutions or, if you find yours the better (3.) So this is ok. @nickvergessen Well, Stefan it really sucks that no one helped you out since I am having the exact same issue and cannot find a solution. total 164 /media, or /media/nextcloud) is not accessible by root, it will not be able to access data either. 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 Configure the data directory and change it to your data folder path 'datadirectory' => '/usr/local/www/nextcloud/nextclouddata/data' 6. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 101 Mar 11 10:52 .user.ini Add it to fstab so it is mounted at boot. total 52 Missing permissions. You should generally not touch the the files directly outside of Nextcloud. Then I tried to adjust the permissions. 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 If you have any guide or video link to help, Ill appreciate it. 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 can't cd into nextcloud data directory. Im having the same issue and have uploaded my issues cannt change data directory before or after adding admin. If so then add your new data-folder! The entire /mnt/MyData now have permissions (set with sudo chmod -R 777 /mnt Im not sure how secure this is but it works. Nextcloud's occ command (origins from "ownCloud Console") is Nextcloud's command-line interface. I have mount disk on UCS 4.3. Change the ownCloud configuration to point to the new data directory. in the sync client, click the three dots on the right, select remove folder synchronisation, Mount the dataset you want to the nextcloud jail and called it what you want , mine would be "nextclouddata", 3. Make sure root has write access, but it's not accessible by others, for example: Important: Posix permissions take the entire path into account. Disable maintenance mode sudo -u www php /usr/www/nextcloud/occ maintence:mode --off 7. Then you switch the data-dir in config/config.php Ensure permissions are still correct. In Nextcloud root folder call, --port="3306" the database port (optional), --password="mysql_user_password" password for the new database. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 542 Mar 15 15:46 .htaccess -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 5048 Mar 11 10:52 cron.php I didnt find any tutorial for this precise use case but I can give you some answer. My first plan was to install it directly with a data directory (/mnt/MyData/nextcloud/data). SQLite is good for You then said to use the following command sudo chmod 0770 directory_name, which I also did. The server compare files and update only the new files. nextcloud.import: Import data exported from another Nextcloud snap instance (via nextcloud.export). 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. I was going to go for the easy method but read the warning from @nickvergessen on DB integrity topic and decided against it. By default this includes the Nextcloud database, configuration, and data. It seems that the umask is set to 0000 by default. Overwriting the files in core/skeleton is not recommended, Admin or other sers will use the user folder whats stated in the nextcloud config (/var/ncData/). 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. The only thing that I had to do slightly different was to grant access to the www user and group to the mounted dataset. Leave empty to not copy any skeleton files. What Information do you need? Press J to jump to the feed. no file access r/w for user1 was possible. 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. 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. You want it outside of /var/www/. drwxr-xr-x 14 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:39 . You can perform many common server operations with occ, such as installing and upgrading Nextcloud, manage users, encryption, passwords, LDAP setting, and more. -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 2976 Mar 11 10:52 index.php Ubuntu 18.04 LTS HowTo: Change / Move data directory after installation howto Start a shell in the Nextcloud container ( docker exec -it name-of-nc-container bash) and run chown -R www-data: /var/www/html. You could use this command: The admin isnt quite clear about this so I have a couple of questions: Nextcloud standard data directory: /var/www/html/nextcloud/data/. Indeed your statement (hence this HowTo) and Nextcloud docs do not match here. You can use any backup software that supports WebDAV for that purpose. It could be that nextcloud.conf is also there, then run a2disconf nextcloud.conf. However you will want to relocate your data folder completely outside the web folder. : If you visited Nextcloud before now, refresh to re-evaluate the changed config (otherwise the directory won't change from the default). -rw-rr-- 1 www-data www-data 3910 Mar 11 10:52 console.php 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: move your data, This is not possible btw. Please read: Forum Rules and Wiki pages. @Andy3153 First set up the new database, here called new_db_name. Thats a bit strange for me because also my standard data folder (/var/ncData/) has 750 and thats work fine. You can do it with docker-compose like in this docker-compose.yml to adapt at your needs. You told me to cd and find the directory where the data folder is stored which I did. This protection is important, otherwise users could access the whole system by uploading symlinks, in theory. click add folder synchronisation. Thus, I use the same. Nextcloud standard webroot: /var/www/html/nextcloud/ So tables of removed For more information, use the navigation tabs on this sub and don't forget to join r/TrueNAS! The config.php entry must be changed. 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. If you delete something on your Mac inside of one of these folders, it also gets deleted on your Nextcloud server and vice versa. drwxr-xr-x 3 www-data www-data 4096 Mar 15 15:41 . I followed all the steps for Solution 1 from @MichaIng and it went well. Then you switch the data-dir in config/config.php 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). 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: If anyone finds this when searching the answer is on the nextcloud-snap github page. Im trying to move to two 500gb raid 0 drives. One question for me if this is a security issue or not, Oh damn. (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). First, list out all of your installed apps with the command: sudo -u www-data php occ app:list. 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