Storing NextCloudPi user data on HDD and install on SD card Raspberry Pi 4 with Open Media Vault

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Hello!
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 with Raspbian OS. I have Open Media Vault v5 installed on the Raspberry and I installed NextCloudPi using a docker. From this official documentation.

The SD card is mouted at: /
My HDD drive is mouted at: /srv/dev-disk-by-label-NAS/
Install command: docker run -d -p 4443:4443 -p 443:443 -p 80:80 -v installpath:/data --name nextcloudpi ownyourbits/nextcloudpi-armhf 192.168.1.100

My question is, how do I install and run NextCloud on the SD card while all the user data is stored at the HDD?

I don’t want the data to be stored on the SD card since it’s only 16GB and I don’t want NextCloud to run at the HDD since it spins down after 10 minutes and therefore I get long startup times when I want to connect to my NextCloud.

Thanks :smiley:

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You can not when using docker image. Edit: I stand corrected look at answer below from gas85. Just mount it with -v
You can use the curl installer to install it on sdcard, then use nc-datadir to move data to your HDD

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Ok, thanks for your answer!
I’ll try to install the NextCloudPi with the curl installer and I’ll get back if it worked out or not.

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It did the trick thank you!
Now it’s installed on the SD card and I moved to data to be stored at: /srv/dev-disk-by-label-NAS/nextcloud-data

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I found out that in the NextCloud config (/var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php) there are actaully the datadirectory that you can change, but I haven’t tested it myself if it works with Docker.

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For sure it works with docker. Even, with docker you do not need to change config.php, simply mount data directory folder to a new location via:

docker run -d -v /your/new/folder/data:/var/www/html/data ...

Check this out for more information:

Seems you need simply mount it during the deployment to your HDD, e.g.:

docker run -d -v /your/hdd/nextcloud:/var/www/html ...
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Sweet, thank you!