Iāll make a copy of my SD card this week. Anyone who needs it can contact me privately and will be forwarded a temporary link when available. Note - youāll need to understand how to write an image to an SD card, thereās plenty of tutorials online for this.
The whole āsoonā thing has been anything but, and I donāt think itās fair to ask paying customers to figure out how to rebuild the server themselves.
Edit: No need to justify your request if you contact me, as interesting as the stories Iāve heard so far have been Iām more than happy to just receive a āplease could I have the link to the image, thank youā.
That was the first thing I did, and they told me to get to the Nextcloud Team for support on this matter, as only the hdd part is from them. Right now I am trying to install Ubuntu Snappy Core on my device to install the nextcloud snap afterwardsā¦ I am not sure this will be the same than the āofficialā image on the sd-card.
For the moment I am stuck at Ubuntu SSO Login, as I donāt see the need to send a (public) key to an external provider to set up a local cloud solutionā¦
But maybe thatās the reason thereās no official NextcloudBox Image yet, as this procedure could make the keys used on the NextcloudBox public (sorry, I cannot explain my point better than this, as I wrote above, I am too much of a newbie with these matters)
I believe the public key is used in the generation of the download/install to provide immediate passwordless login to the snappy core. From Canonicalās perspective, imagine the outcry if in 4 years of IoT penetration some independent body publishes figures showing 56% of all Core installs public to the internet still use ubuntu/ubuntu for login. lol.
Thanks for the reply. I finally managed to get through the process of installing ubuntu core on my raspberry (configuring the network was complicated, I had to unplug my lan cable and configure it manually to dhcp, then the network setup would run and get stuck at 66%. I then replugged the cable and setup resumed). In the end I proceeded as asked, and after I was able to login through ssh, I installed the nextcloud snap.
So now my installation is running on my nextcloud box. Is this the same kind of installation than what was available on the sd card?
By putting an image of the sd card online, wouldnāt the public key be available either? And wouldnāt that be some kind of security risk?
Just asking and trying to understand why it seems to be quite hard to make the image available for downloads.
No, the original build was something of a mis-match of ubuntu server and snaps, rather than core. Hence the relunctance to distribute it as itās not the build they wanted to promote.
The original build doesnāt feature the public key of anything - but if it did it would mean some single person with that key would have access to all instances. I imagine these issues are likely the cause of delay for the new build that requires a pubkey.
I now have both a Gnome Disks .img file and a traditional DD .bin file available.
Out of respect for the devs who donāt want the image published I wonāt put a public link up. Anyone needing a copy of the sdcard image can contact me either through the forum DM system or via my site (linked in profile) and Iāll provide a link with a set expiry date.
Edit: No need to justify your request if you contact me, as interesting as the stories Iāve heard so far have been Iām more than happy to just receive a āplease could I have the link to the image, thank youā.
Thanks Jason for the explanations. I now understand a little better what kind of installation I haveā¦ and if I were paranoid, I would, now that the system is up and running, create a new public/private key pair and pack the public key directly to the sd card, to replace the one that I uploaded to the Ubuntu server
Thatās it, just as with the other pre-built images on offer for the Piās, Vagrants and dockers that have set users/passwords, once youāre in and have control you can revoke everything and setup your own authentication methods
Hi,
after moving my computer related equipment my micro sd card for the nextcloud is broken. And I have no duplicate or backup.
Now I learn that their is no easy way to obtain a copy. That is a real problem!
If I buy a second nextcloud box at WD just to have a duplicate sd card it would ship by 1. Dezember 2016. That is a rather long waiting time. And that is very annoying.
You could try to ask WD Labs to an SD card or an image, but we do recommend making a backup because we still canāt offer direct downloads at this stage.
Thanks for the answer.
Yes I could try. But not succeed. I donāt think that there ever was somebody successfully getting in touch with WD concerning Nextcloud Box. (No Ser.No.; no Mod.No).
And the new ordered Nextcloud Box (just to get hold of a SD-Card) does not ship on 1.Dezember. Shipment uncertain. This is VERY frustating - and shows the urgency of an immediat backup.
All data is written to the HD and tmpfs, but there could be something written to the card at boot time maybe. I havenāt looked into it. So far it seems itās more of a problem with the card itself than the content though.
Iām curious to see what kind of reaction you will be getting from WDLabs. I contacted them on that matter, and they send me to the Nextcloud Support. Thatās how I landed here
