Hello, here is a little report about my issues with NextCloud Box. Not very nice for a first message, but I was a bit disappointed about the default behaviors. 1/ I’ve ordered the box and installed it. Everything was already configured. So far, so good. 2/ It’s quite easy to use. I’ve put some fi…

Did I get it right, that your nc data was/is on an external hdd instead of on the sd card? If you install system+nextcloud new from an image without copying config and databases, the nextcloud files are not inside it’s database anymore and therefore will not show up on web interface/clients etc. Yo…

Yeah, the concept of the nextcloud box is you have 1Tb hard drive for the data and the system is on the sd card. I could understand that the files wouldn’t be in the new installation database. But I’ve ssh’ed to the system, and the external hard drive is now almost empty, therefore I think everythi…

I got that thing too, I think I know why that happened to you. As you reset you system the File /boot/firmware/cmdline.txt (if booted) or cmdline.txt in the first partition if the SDCard is mounted to another system has the entry root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 that runs the reset-from-scratch script. I…

You’re probably right. It would have done the job. So maybe a menu during boot up (expecially if it can detect a previous installation), with a question like “would you like to recover a previous installation or start for a new installation?” would be safer.

I’m sorry you’ve lost data, but this is covered off in the docs as a behaviour that will happen by default: [image] Nextcloud Box OS images 📦 Appliances (Docker, Snappy, VM, NCP, AIO) If it helps, this is what I’ve provided with my backup image: Details on how to restor…

Oh yes, it’s in the doc. I don’t get angry for the data loss, first it wasn’t important, and I’ve recovered most of it with photorec. What I wanted to say is it’s not a very safe behaviour, there should be an idiot-proof script to check if some data are already present and give the choice either to …

[image] farvardin: photorec Thanks for that casual mention, I’ve been looking for a tool like this :slight_smile: [image] farvardin: Most cleverly designed products take those cases into account before making important operations such as deleting some user data. At this stage I think …

Nextcloud Box: possible data loss

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JasonBayton April 5, 2017, 11:03am 6

I’m sorry you’ve lost data, but this is covered off in the docs as a behaviour that will happen by default: