Using External Storage / NAS

[mcolvin]

i'm fairly new to Cloudron, I have Cloudron running on a VM with nextcloud installed as an app

I would like to use my NAS as the default file location for all files/folders

I setup the app within nextcloud and selected the option to allow all users access, but this gives every user access to every folder/file within the share

is there a way to use external storage as the default file system for nextcloud

I hope I explained correctly

[Reddy]

I would like to ask also if it's possible to extend storage on an online version of Cloudron hosted on a VPS with another solution online like Backblaze to extend the storage?

Thank you

[girish]

@mcolvin @Reddy welcome!

Nextcloud has an external storage plugin - https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_files/external_storage_configuration_gui.html . With that you can connect S3/CIFS etc. As @mcolvin pointed out, the idea with external storage on nextcloud is that you give access to a bunch of users and they all can store files in this external storage.

If you want to increase the storage space across all users, you have to get so called Block Storage from your VPS provider. For example, if your server is on OVH, https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/public-cloud/block-storage/ is around 5 bucks a month for 100GB. You can attach block storage to Cloudron VPS via http://docs.cloudron.io/volumes and then move nextcloud to that volume via https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/#data-directory .

Finally, if you have massive amount of data, let's say terabytes of data, the cost effective way is to selfhost at home. Attaching a disk at home into a VPS in the cloud is quite complicated and I won't recommend this. The performace will really not be satisfactory.