Once, to store nextcloud data, I created a raid and mounted it in a separate directory.
I looked in the configuration file for the path to the data directory (all user files are stored in it):
cat /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php | grep datadirectory
It was displayed:
‘datadirectory’ => ‘/var/www/nextcloud/data’,
Then I turned on maintenance mode so that no one would take any action on the data:
sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ maintenance:mode --on
I copied the data directory to a new folder and indicated the owner and rights on behalf of which the web server is working:
cp -R /var/www/nextcloud/data /srv/nextcloud/data
chown -R www-data:www-data /srv/nextcloud/data/
I opened the nextcloud configuration file in a text editor and changed the “datadirectory” value to the path to the new folder:
nano /var/www/nextcloud/config/config.php
After that, I turned off the maintenance mode:
sudo -u www-data php /var/www/nextcloud/occ maintenance:mode --off
Done, the “data” directory with user data has been successfully transferred to another location.
See also my articles:
- Install Nextcloud in Ubuntu
- Copying data to Nextcloud via FTP
- mdadm – utility for managing software RAID arrays
- Moving Nextcloud to another server