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Nextcloud version (eg, 12.0.2): 16.0.5 (installed via snap)
Operating system and version (eg, Ubuntu 17.04): Ubuntu 18.04
Server provider: Scaleway
The issue you are facing:
I have configured an S3 external storage and it is working as expected but my local disk gets filled with data.
I am uploading hundreds of pictures to a folder on this external storage. The files get uploaded there properly but the local directory is also getting filled with a lot of data:
user@host:~$ sudo du -sh /var/snap/nextcloud/common/nextcloud/data/user/uploads
647M /var/snap/nextcloud/common/nextcloud/data/user/uploads
The S3 storage also has around 650 MB of data.
Is this the first time you’ve seen this error? (Y/N): Yes
Steps to replicate it:
- Install Nextcloud with snap
- Setup a S3 external storage
- upload files to a folder on external storage
The output of your Nextcloud log in Admin > Logging. I get a lot of these :
{"reqId":"edited","level":3,"time":"2019-12-24T12:54:35+00:00","remoteAddr":"ipv6_addr_edited","user":"user","app":"PHP","method":"PUT","url":"\/remote.php\/dav\/files\/path_edited.JPG","message":"fclose(): supplied resource is not a valid stream resource at \/snap\/nextcloud\/16739\/htdocs\/apps\/files_external\/lib\/Lib\/Storage\/AmazonS3.php#641","userAgent":"Mozilla\/5.0 (Linux) mirall\/2.6.1git (Nextcloud)","version":"16.0.5.1"}
and a few of these:
OCP\Encryption\Exceptions\GenericEncryptionException: Bad Signature
The output of your config.php file in /path/to/nextcloud (make sure you remove any identifiable information!):
<?php
$CONFIG = array (
'apps_paths' =>
array (
0 =>
array (
'path' => '/snap/nextcloud/current/htdocs/apps',
'url' => '/apps',
'writable' => false,
),
1 =>
array (
'path' => '/var/snap/nextcloud/current/nextcloud/extra-apps',
'url' => '/extra-apps',
'writable' => true,
),
),
'supportedDatabases' =>
array (
0 => 'mysql',
),
'memcache.locking' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
'memcache.local' => '\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis',
'redis' =>
array (
'host' => '/tmp/sockets/redis.sock',
'port' => 0,
),
'passwordsalt' => 'edited',
'secret' => 'edited',
'trusted_domains' =>
array (
0 => 'localhost',
1 => 'edited',
),
'datadirectory' => '/var/snap/nextcloud/common/nextcloud/data',
'dbtype' => 'mysql',
'version' => '16.0.5.1',
'overwrite.cli.url' => 'http://localhost',
'dbname' => 'nextcloud',
'dbhost' => 'localhost:/tmp/sockets/mysql.sock',
'dbport' => '',
'dbtableprefix' => 'oc_',
'mysql.utf8mb4' => true,
'dbuser' => 'nextcloud',
'dbpassword' => 'edited',
'installed' => true,
'instanceid' => 'edited',
'maintenance' => false,
'theme' => '',
'loglevel' => 2,
//-- mail config edited --
);
The output of your Apache/nginx/system log in /var/log/____:
Couldn't find it.