New Proxmox Install with Synology as a Data Store

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Hey All

Im brand new to Next Cloud and I’m currently researching the best way forward (I’m edging towards AIO)

Im running Proxmox and would like to host Next Cloud in there, however have all data stored on my Synology drive. My plan so far is to use AIO and to follow the documentation, however as a newbie I have no clue how to get Next Cloud to store on my synology presumably via drive mapping. Im not hot on linux so any help there would be appreciated.

My questions are:

  • Would AIO be the correct path? Im not much of a tinkerer and would like easy backups and updates

  • How can I have Next Cloud use my synology?

Thanks

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Update: so I figured out how to map my synology to the LXC container running docker and that will run NC.

Following the documentation and using docker compose I’ve specified the below: NEXTCLOUD_MOUNT: /mnt/NextCloud1 however when running. When I try to bring the container up I get the error below:

services.nextcloud-aio-mastercontainer Additional property NEXTCLOUD_MOUNT is not allowed

Any suggestions are welcome

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This could be the reason

  • --volume nextcloud_aio_mastercontainer:/mnt/docker-aio-config This means that the files that are created by the mastercontainer will be stored in a docker volume that is called nextcloud_aio_mastercontainer. This line is not allowed to be changed, since built-in backups would fail later on.
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Thank you - so should I change this even though it says I shouldn’t? Backups will be done by synology rather the NC itself.

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if you haven’t this mount as called, this could be the reasen, why aio is not starting, so my experience

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so what did you do - remove it completely?

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Why remove it? You must use this mount as explained.
You can also use the search function, there’s even something there:

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I don’t want to remove it because yes it’s mounting the volume where the NC data files will be stored. This is fine with me I just want the user files stored on the Synology.

I’m specifying this as above in the compose file it gives me an error. What should I do to the line you suggest?

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You can also mount the data dir this is not a problem

As I said, I don’t have that much experience with the AIO.
My experience is that i have to
docker create volume nextcloud_aio_mastercontainer first and only than it was ok.

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Thank you. I’d be grateful if you could give me some steps?

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What do you mean?
As i said

(sudo) docker create volume nextcloud_aio_mastercontainer

And than your compose might be succsessful