Hi
I have installed nextcloud on my NAS built with Raspberry Pi 4. I love it but it is quite slow. I thought of the idea of actually installing nextcloud on my VPS server (cloud server online), but I would like the data folder to be one of my NAS, thus having the performance of the VPS and the big storage of my NAS.
For this purpose, I have tried running nextcloud using docker composer, and then mounting a folder of my nas on the VPS server using Samba. Then on docker, I set the data folder to one on my vps that this one is one on the nas.
I am writing here because when I try installing Nextcloud using the web installer, I get this error:
Error
Unable to create or write to the data folder /data
Maybe is something related to permissions or users? It writes on the NAS, because for example if we see the volume used on docker compose:
volumes:
- /mnt/nextcloud_vps/data:/data
The data folder is created inside the NAS.
Thanks.
Bruno
please show ls -la /mnt
and show us your docker-compose.yml
Sure
ls -la /mnt:
You can see inside nextcloud_vps folder the data folder created on the NAS:
my docker compose:
---
version: "2.1"
services:
aio-imaginary:
image: nextcloud/aio-imaginary:latest
restart: always
expose:
- "9005"
cap_add:
- SYS_NICE
environment:
- PORT=9005
- DEBUG=*
ports:
- 9005:9005
command: -concurrency 50 -enable-url-source -p 9005 -return-size
redis:
image: redis:latest
container_name: redis
restart: always
command: redis-server --requirepass nextcloud_redis_pass
nextcloud:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/nextcloud
container_name: nextcloud
environment:
- PUID=33
- PGID=33
- TZ=Europe/Berlin
- REDIS_HOST=redis
- REDIS_HOST_PORT=6379
- REDIS_HOST_PASSWORD=nextcloud_redis_pass
ports:
- 8888:80
links:
- redis
volumes:
- /mnt/docker/nextcloud_vps/config:/config
- /mnt/nextcloud_vps/data:/data # folder on the nas
depends_on:
- mariadb
- redis
restart: unless-stopped
mariadb:
image: lscr.io/linuxserver/mariadb
container_name: mariadb
environment:
- PUID=33
- PGID=33
- TZ=Europe/Berlin
- MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=------
- MYSQL_PASSWORD=---------
- MYSQL_DATABASE=nextcloud
- MYSQL_USER=nextcloud
ports:
- 5432:5432
volumes:
- /mnt/docker/mariadb_vps:/config
restart: unless-stopped
thanks
bruno
In your config, you define id33 to run Nextcloud. I think, id33 will be www-data, so try:
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /mnt/nextcloud_vps
Tried that, still not working. For my nas, I am using openmediavault and samba, maybe something related to user permission on my nas?
did you do a docker compose down?
Yes! I did compose down then up.
and your data-dir is still empty?
There is only a nextcloud.log file inside.
cat nextcloud.log
{"reqId":"Q4LKRyjJ4klrSH0S6ywf","level":3,"time":"2023-11-02T19:15:01+00:00","remoteAddr":"","user":"--","app":"cron","method":"","url":"--","message":"Not installed","userAgent":"--","version":"","exception":{"Exception":"Exception","Message":"Not installed","Code":0,"Trace":[{"file":"/app/www/public/lib/base.php","line":709,"function":"checkInstalled","class":"OC","type":"::"},{"file":"/app/www/public/lib/base.php","line":1196,"function":"init","class":"OC","type":"::"},{"file":"/app/www/public/cron.php","line":43,"args":["/app/www/public/lib/base.php"],"function":"require_once"}],"File":"/app/www/public/lib/base.php","Line":283,"CustomMessage":"--"}}
well, then I think you should do it the other way around. Install it with all stuff on you vps an use external share in Nextcloud. Maybe your server @home is too slow or your internet connection is too slow.
Not sure, if there might be another way to go.
I have tried that before and It makes my nextcloud instance on the VPS get very slow, block itself, or even crash. I am using Zerotier to connect the NAS to the VPS. Maybe are there other ways to connect my NAS and vpn that are faster?>
My nas has full 1 gigabit internet speed.
Iād like to apologize in case these questions are out of the scope of this forum.
Thanks for all the support.
