Expanding storage on Nextcloud AIO running on Linode with block storage?

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I’m running AIO v4.2.0 on a Linode server (Dedicated 4GB). It has 80GB storage, and I thought I would be able to easily expand this. Then I found out that this is already the largest disk size, and to add more storage I would need to use block storage.

I am not sure what the best way forward now is. 80GB is more than enough (for a while at least) for my data, but it is the Borg backup that will be causing me to exceed my storage limit. I was thinking of adding 80GB of block storage, and simply mount this to /mnt/backup/ where the backups are made. However, something tells me this might be a bad idea for some reason I am not aware of, so I wanted to check in here first.

Is this going to cause trouble for me? And if so, what would you recommend me do in my case instead?

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Yes, this is how it should be done. Make sure to first move the borg archive to a different location, then mount the block storage in /mnt/backup/ and afterwards use e.g. rsync to sync the borg archive to /mnt/backup/. Then you could check if backups stilll work from the aio interface and if yes delete the files from the server (but not from the block storage).

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Great - thanks! I will proceed with this plan then :slight_smile: