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Nextcloud Local vs NAS Storage (lemmy.ml)
submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/selfhosted
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I just spun up a Nextcloud VM, and I'm trying to decide the best way to manage the data storage.

For context, I'm running it on proxmox and installed it with This script.

Ideally I'd like to keep most of my storage on my NAS. I'm trying to figure out if I should keep the data directory local and add a NAS NFS share as external storage, or just move the whole data directory to an NFS share.

How are you guys handling your Nextcloud storage?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Is the storage shared with other software, or are the NAS and Proxmox two different machines? Or why bother to set up NFS at all?

I keep most of my usual data local. But I've also added some external storage to Nextcloud, that'd be a large harddisk that contains some music and TV recordings, Linux ISOs and rarely used stuff. It's mounted read-only most of the times and spins down unless I need to access my achived stuff. That's the main reason why I keep it separate.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yea proxmox on one machine and a separate machine running truenas and serving NFS

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Sure. That'd be a valid use-case. I don't think I can recommended anything, here. Both should work fine. And you can always run into some unforeseen consequences in a few years. Especially once you decide to change something about your setup. But these things are hard to factor in. I often tend to prefer the easier solution over the more complex one. That helps with maintainability. But that approach doesn't always apply.

Edit: If you want everything stored on the NAS, just do it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

why bother to set up NFS at all?

It's a NAS...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I meant the other side. If you use 200GB of your Proxmox, you don't need to transfer it to the NAS. Which is the question here. I don't do it, because it's mostly calendars, contacts and like 10GB of data on Nextcloud, which I'm currently working on, or sharing with friends. And the "NAS" is sleeping most of the day. But if OP wants all their data stored on a NAS, they might very well configure Nextcloud to use NFS and do it that way.