Can't get NextCloud to run on TrueNas when defining hostpaths

ℹ️ Support
1

Trying to set up NextCloud on Truenas Scale and when I define the storage configurations in the ix-apps folder it deploys just fine.

But I want to define the data elsewhere so I can back it up via Backblaze with a cloud sync task. The problem is that whenever I define the host path for the datasets in my pool the deployment fails with the error:

Back-off restarting failed container nextcloud in pod nextcloud-postgres-7d4ff65d96-j8xqf_ix-nextcloud(b358cae5-90e0-49f1-a187-6f1ad4fd0775)

I’ve used this youtube video as a guide to set up my datasets

and before you ask I have tried everywhich way with the folder permissions. I’ve created and re-created my datasets as Apps.

The main goal here is to be able to setup a Backblaze b2 sync so that in the event of catastrophic data loss I can restore it. I’d prefer not to have to sync my entire ix-applications dataset to accomplish this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated I am out of ideas.

1 Like
2

I am having the exact same issue. Tried so many permission combos. Nothing works.

3

Well sir do I have good news for you! After trolling every corner of every forum I finally figured it out :slight_smile:

It was indeed a permissions issue. For the dataset ‘pgdata’ you need to set:
Owner: netdata,
Group:docker
image

and then it works and, if you’re like me, finally go to sleep. Let me know how you go.

2 Likes
4

When I tried changing the owner for “pgdata” I got this error:

[EPERM] Filesystem permissions on path /mnt/NewTank/nextcloud prevent access for user "netdata" to the path /mnt/NewTank/nextcloud/pgdata. This may be fixed by granting the aforementioned user execute permissions on the path: /mnt/NewTank/nextcloud.

The WebUI wouldn’t let me change the owner for “pgdata” or my “nextcloud” dataset either, but it worked when I used the Shell.

Change Owner and Group for “pgdata”:
sudo chown -R netdata:docker /mnt/NewTank/nextcloud/pgdata

Grant Execute Permissions on the parent directory:
sudo chmod o+x /mnt/NewTank/nextcloud

Make sure to change “NewTank” and “nextcloud” to be the same as your dataset names.

Then you should be able to install the nextcloud app

5

This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.