Move DATA folder to a network folder

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#1

Hi

Iā€™m new on this forum, but Iā€™m using nextcloud from many years now

Today, Iā€™m updating my servers and would like to move DATA folder on my NAS

nextcloud is running on a debian 10 server
I alredy mount NAS folder on nextcloud server, I can move (or copy) DATA folder, but cannot use it because when I copy it, owner chage from www-data to root

I cannot change owner to www-data

If I copy DATA folder everywhere on nextcloud server, I can do it, but cannot change owner on a mounted folder

what is the solution to fix it?

Many thanks for your lights

#2

Please post more details? Is NAS a NFS or SMB folder? Perhaps you have mounted it not correctly. Post linux shell commands and outputs.

#3

following linux command to mount folder :

mount -t cifs -o username=*****,password=**** //192.168.1.6/archives/nextcloud /media/nextcloud/data/

of course, I replaced login and folder with ***

I can use mounted folder , copy file, read file, write in a file from linux server, but cannot change right and owner, so, webserver (nextcloud) cannot.

It is a SMB folder

Let me know if you need more info

#4

did I do something wrong?

#5

I think the problem is the fact that is not really a SMB share or a network folder. It is a ā€œmount -t cifsā€. Perhaps you can better use SMB not as primary but as secondary data.

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/19/admin_manual/configuration_files/external_storage/smb.html

Another possiblity is o use e.g. NFS mounted data.

#6

how could I do that?

#7

yes it is :

mount -t cifs -o username=*****,password=**** //192.168.1.6/archives/nextcloud /media/nextcloud/data/

how could I do a really SMB mount?

#8

It is a ā€œreally SMB mountā€. But i think you mounted it for system user and not for nextcloud user. Perhaps you can change the mount - command if you like or meed SMB.

Read
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/68079/mount-cifs-network-drive-write-permissions-and-chown