Only use nextcloudData as persistence Storage

[MrRenesto]

I want to store the Data Files on my NFS, for that i only need /var/www/html/data. I dont want to mount everything under /var/www/* on my NFS.

At the Moment you can only use nextcloudData when persistence is enabled overall.

(Im new to Nextcloud, maybe there is another way to do this ?).

[TheShadowBanned]

A few questions up front:

What cluster are u running? Which device/ host? You are familiar with pv and pvc?

Short answer:

The /var/www path applies only for inside the container, with persistence enabled, it will be a different path on your NFS storage.

The mounted folder outside the container will only be the /data folder inside the folder you created with pv and pvc on your NFS storage.

Example:

Your NFS nextcloud storage folder: /media/nextcloud (created manually in advance)

Your nextcloud data path will be: /media/nextcloud/data/

Edit: You want to externally mount the /data/files part only, keeping all other stuff like apps and so on inside your container, correct?

Greetz

[corincorvus]

I think he wants only the data folder. I want it too. I tried something, but if i try to add nfs as "extra volume" of the helm chart and set the path /var/www/html/data, i get an error: "path must be unique".

May it possible to post samples for persistence and patch of the chart to use an external data nfs storage?

In my Case is it a k3s Setup with 3 Nodes.

Thanks

[SNThrailkill]

What I did to accomplish this was mount my NFS share through extraVolumes as /nfs and then change dataDir to /nfs as well as change my config.php to set my dataDir to /nfs and that seemed to work well enough.

[jahegu]

Please, can you better explain how do you do? As far as I set dataDir on Helm to /nfs folder the pod replace nfs mounitng point by existing pvc

[miguemely]

Necroing this issue here (my apologies)

So I'm trying to deploy this helm chart to replace my old install that uses NFS.

On the old install, it mounts a NFS share to /ncdata (Nextcloud Data Directory). This is what is defined in the Nextcloud config as its "Data Directory".

Within the helm values, I defined the following:
nextcloud.datadir: /ncdata
nextcloud.extraVolumes:

 extraVolumes:
  - name: nfs
    nfs:
      server: "nfs-server"
      path: "/mnt/nfspath"
      readOnly: false
 extraVolumeMounts:
  - name: nfs
    mountPath: "/ncdata"

The error I get is Deployment.apps "nextcloud" is invalid: [spec.template.spec.containers[0].volumeMounts[7].mountPath: Invalid value: "/ncdata": must be unique, spec.template.spec.containers[1].volumeMounts[8].mountPath: Invalid value: "/ncdata": must be unique, spec.template.spec.containers[2].volumeMounts[7].mountPath: Invalid value: "/ncdata": must be unique, spec.template.spec.containers[3].volumeMounts[0].name: Not found: "nextcloud-data"

I'm assuming this is related to this issue, but also I think its related to #531 ?