Nextcloud

Nextcloud is a self hosted cloud solution. It is a fork of ownCloud by the original founder.

Administration

Moving data directory

See https://help.nextcloud.com/t/howto-change-move-data-directory-after-installation/17170

Nextcloud doesn't include a clean built-in way to migrate data.

The proper way to do it is to fix all the paths in the Nextcloud database. However, this is slightly complicated and prone to errors.

The easy way is to create a symlink:

sudo -u www-data php /path/to/nextcloud/occ maintenance:mode --on
mkdir -p /new/path/to/data
rsync -a /path/to/data/. /new/path/to/data
mv /path/to/data /path/to/dataBackup
ln -s /new/path/to/data /path/to/data
chown -h www-data:www-data /path/to/data # To set symlink ownership
chown -R www-data:www-data /new/path/to/data # To set actual data dir ownership
sudo -u www-data php /path/to/nextcloud/occ maintenance:mode --off