Migrating from CIFS share to an attached vmdk

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Hi

I’m wanting to move my storage for my virtualised nextcloud server from being backed by a CIFS share on a windows server to being a vmdk attached to the virtual machine… Rebooting the windows box knocks nextcloud offline etc…

I currently have the cifs setup using fstab to a mountpoint /media/nextcloudData.
But want to move all the files to a “drive” presented to /media/nextcloudDataLocal

Can I just put nextcloud into maintenance mode then stop the service.
Use rsync to move all the files (100GB+) to the /media/nextcloudDataLocal
Remove the fstab setup (comment it out)
Change the mount location so the local drive now has the same mount point as the old CIFS (/media/nextcloudData).

Reboot the server
Start the service and then disable maintenance mode?

Will nextcloud notice that the data is now in a different location or should this “just work”…

Is there anything fancy I need to do options wise for rsync?

I use a few “apps” including, news, deck, notes, maps, talk…

Thanks for any help or guidance

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Sounds like it should work to me. Make sure to copy file timestamps. Watch your permissions. I’m not sure what they look like right now, but normally www-data owns everything. And I would run occ files:scan afterward.

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Thanks Karl

Anyone else have any thoughts on if it would work well?
or any suggested rsync commands? will def run the occ files:scan as well!

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Just confirming those steps worked.
I used
sudo rsync -avz
then make sure you use df (to check mountpoints are correct) and sudo umount and sudo mount -a after making changes to fstab mount points to update them.