Hello everyone,
I wanted to ask if anyone has experience with migrating from OwnCloud to Nextcloud. We are currently facing the challenge of having a server with over 100 active users who also use the OwnCloud Desktop app.
Our question is how to best handle this situation to ensure a smooth transition to Nextcloud. We are definitely considering running everything in a parallel environment, but the main challenge is how to manage the Desktop app during the migration.
I have been using the Owncloud client for Nextcloud on one computer for a long time (because the Nextcloud client no longer supports 32-bit). If you migrate/upgrading your existing Owncloud installation to Nextcloud in-place, it would be interesting to check whether the Owncloud client continues to run 1:1 with Nextcloud als new backend. If so, you would then have enough time to replace the clients with the new Nextcloud client.
But if you really have so many clients that this is an issue, I think the only way to go is to run a separate test run. That’s where you could test things like this.
Question is, can you ask the users to de-install the owncloud client and install the nextcloud one? Or should everything be automatic (perhaps with a script you can copy the configuration and you don’t need to configure the Nextcloud client)?
For the server, I don’t know if the migration paths are still tested and how reliable they are. I’d check with a test system that is similar to yours (or even a copy), how it works. And based on that, you can go through the issues, report them.
There is the web-migrator:
that hasn’t seen updates for a while.
But you are still on the php version of ownCloud I suppose?
Other way, less elegant, you could set up a new Nextcloud instance. That way, you run into less trouble. To link both setups, you can use federated sharing between the instances. If it is just for the raw data, you can move it to the new setup. However, if you have a lot of shares, shared links etc. such information would be lost.
A problem will be, that the users will need to configure the Nextcloud desktop client using the sync folder “Owncloud” and more.
