Migrating a nextcloud instance from NS7 to NS8 on a separate data volume : a journey

[mrmarkuz (Markus Neuberger)]

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Would it be feasible and supported to use a bind mount from the host to the data volume inside the Podman container ?

Yes, that should work using the nextcloud-app-data volume but I don’t know if it’s possible during the migration process.

NS8 Add storage path setting like in minio to other apps

Well I digged Podman documentation and I found a recipe that should work for any rootless module, more or less. I assume the disk where we want to store the module data has been already formatted, configured in /etc/fstab and mounted on /mnt/disk00 In general, after installation (creation) module instances are in a stopped state. They require an additional configuration step to start. In this state they still have not created the volumes where persistent data is stored. In this case, it is po…