How to move OwnCloud data?

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨gedaliyah@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨selfhosted@lemmy.world⁩

So I currently have a 1tb drive running all of my containers for my home server. I’m trying to finalize the process of transitioning from corporate cloud storage to my own personal cloud. I have a new 12 TB drive to hold all my files.

I am running Xubuntu, with OwnCloud running in docker compose similar to this setup.

By default, it saves all data in the var directory, but I am stuck with how to change it. I have my data backed up separately, so the plan is to set it up from scratch.

There are complicated instructions here, but I don’t have the skill to transfer this process to a docker compose installation. I have never used SQL commands, and I really have no idea how to do anything with it in docker.

This is a critical step in my home server setup, without which I pretty much can’t move forward. Can anyone help?

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MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
It’s just a folder of stuff, so copy it to the new location you’re going to use on your fresh instance (which would be where your bind mount is in your docker-compose project). Then once up and running you’ll need to run the command to manually scan existing files.

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bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Apart from changing the docker config of your existing installation you can also symlink the new folder to the old location.

Or if Docker or Nextcloud doesn’t like symlinks you can also mount the folder there. Folders can be mounted more or less the same as devices.

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stuner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I’m not quite sure what you’re trying to do here. Are you

Trying to create a new owncloud instance and put your data somewhere other than in /var, or

Try to move the data location of an existing owncloud instance?

If you’re trying to do the second one, there’s a useful guide on it here: omiid.me/…/move-docker-volume-to-bind-mount. The first one should be even simpler, you can just replace the volumes in the compose file by bind mounts (basically, just this step of the tutorial: omiid.me/…/move-docker-volume-to-bind-mount#modif…).
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JASN_DE@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
If you’re doing a fresh instance it will solve a lot of issues. Personally I run a Nextcloud instance which got its own 2TB SSD. I mounted the disk at /nextcloud, then used bind mounts in docker compose for db and NC.

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