<![CDATA[Move backup location of mysqldump to volume]]>Problem:
I have a very large msqldump file (matomo) that is getting created when a backup is done. This is crashing my system eventually (disk full)
I have added an external disk to the instance and followed the very fine instructions to move the appdata location. This worked perfectly with no issues!

BUT the original yellowtent folder still contains a config.json file AND the large mysqldump. I just ran a full backup manually and it updated the file in the original location!

How do I redirect the location of this backup creation?

I need to figure this out soon.
Thanks a lot.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/13095/move-backup-location-of-mysqldump-to-volumeRSS for NodeWed, 13 May 2026 12:33:35 GMTFri, 10 Jan 2025 21:34:25 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Move backup location of mysqldump to volume on Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:06:53 GMT]]>Can you explain better what is the error and what is the current situation ?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/103171https://forum.cloudron.io/post/103171Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:06:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Move backup location of mysqldump to volume on Thu, 13 Mar 2025 02:07:25 GMT]]>We decided to move this is a box with much more storage. I have done the backup and restore many times, no issue. But I have had this "mnt" with link working for some time now. BUT I did the backup and restore and realized that the external mount to another drive broke the Matomo restore. What do I do to get this back?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/103127https://forum.cloudron.io/post/103127Thu, 13 Mar 2025 02:07:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Move backup location of mysqldump to volume on Tue, 11 Feb 2025 09:48:37 GMT]]>@stevespaw said in Move backup location of mysqldump to volume:

Feb 08 23:00:52 BoxError: Error creating config.json: EACCES: permission denied, open '/home/yellowtent/appsdata/a1fea9d3-2af1-4336-ba20-148ae80f1f4f/config.json'

Check the permissions of the directory. Does yellowtent user have permissions to write to it?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/101560https://forum.cloudron.io/post/101560Tue, 11 Feb 2025 09:48:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Move backup location of mysqldump to volume on Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:39:07 GMT]]>Coming back to this issues as I am getting errors on backups:

Feb 08 23:00:52 box:backuptask fullBackup: app automate.bb-content.media backup finished. Took 30.926 seconds
Feb 08 23:00:52 box:locks write: current locks: {"backup_task":null}
Feb 08 23:00:52 box:locks release: app_a1372b32-5ec8-4fb7-99cb-9e687c05eac5
Feb 08 23:00:52 box:tasks update 1745: {"percent":43.85714285714286,"message":"Backing up matomo.bb-content.media (3/4). Waiting for lock"}
Feb 08 23:00:52 box:locks write: current locks: {"backup_task":null,"app_a1fea9d3-2af1-4336-ba20-148ae80f1f4f":"1745"}
Feb 08 23:00:52 box:locks acquire: app_a1fea9d3-2af1-4336-ba20-148ae80f1f4f
Feb 08 23:00:52 box:tasks update 1745: {"percent":43.85714285714286,"message":"Snapshotting app matomo.bb-content.media"}
Feb 08 23:00:52 box:backuptask fullBackup: app matomo.bb-content.media backup finished. Took 0.004 seconds
Feb 08 23:00:52 box:locks write: current locks: {"backup_task":null}
Feb 08 23:00:52 box:locks release: app_a1fea9d3-2af1-4336-ba20-148ae80f1f4f
Feb 08 23:00:52 box:taskworker Task took 51.786 seconds
Feb 08 23:00:52 box:tasks setCompleted - 1745: {"result":null,"error":{"stack":"BoxError: Error creating config.json: EACCES: permission denied, open '/home/yellowtent/appsdata/a1fea9d3-2af1-4336-ba20-148ae80f1f4f/config.json'\n at Object.writeConfig (/home/yellowtent/box/src/apps.js:3089:15)\n at snapshotApp (/home/yellowtent/box/src/backuptask.js:339:16)\n at uploadAppSnapshot (/home/yellowtent/box/src/backuptask.js:350:11)\n at backupAppWithTag (/home/yellowtent/box/src/backuptask.js:391:11)\n at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)","name":"BoxError","reason":"FileSystem Error","details":{},"message":"Error creating config.json: EACCES: permission denied, open '/home/yellowtent/appsdata/a1fea9d3-2af1-4336-ba20-148ae80f1f4f/config.json'"}}
Feb 08 23:00:52 box:tasks update 1745: {"percent":100,"result":null,"error":{"stack":"BoxError: Error creating config.json: EACCES: permission denied, open '/home/yellowtent/appsdata/a1fea9d3-2af1-4336-ba20-148ae80f1f4f/config.json'\n at Object.writeConfig (/home/yellowtent/box/src/apps.js:3089:15)\n at snapshotApp (/home/yellowtent/box/src/backuptask.js:339:16)\n at uploadAppSnapshot (/home/yellowtent/box/src/backuptask.js:350:11)\n at backupAppWithTag (/home/yellowtent/box/src/backuptask.js:391:11)\n at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)","name":"BoxError","reason":"FileSystem Error","details":{},"message":"Error creating config.json: EACCES: permission denied, open '/home/yellowtent/appsdata/a1fea9d3-2af1-4336-ba20-148ae80f1f4f/config.json'"}}
Feb 08 23:00:52 BoxError: Error creating config.json: EACCES: permission denied, open '/home/yellowtent/appsdata/a1fea9d3-2af1-4336-ba20-148ae80f1f4f/config.json'
Feb 08 23:00:52 at Object.writeConfig (/home/yellowtent/box/src/apps.js:3089:15)
Feb 08 23:00:52 at snapshotApp (/home/yellowtent/box/src/backuptask.js:339:16)
Feb 08 23:00:52 at uploadAppSnapshot (/home/yellowtent/box/src/backuptask.js:350:11)
Feb 08 23:00:52 at backupAppWithTag (/home/yellowtent/box/src/backuptask.js:391:11)
Feb 08 23:00:52 at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/101542https://forum.cloudron.io/post/101542Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:39:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Move backup location of mysqldump to volume on Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:18:01 GMT]]>OK just to recap - This seems to be working on my test system. This is after I followed the steps for my VPS to add a disk and the Cloudron instructions to add a disk and a volume. I did this as root. I used the "disk" in place of "volume".

Stop the app

mv /home/yellowtent/appsdata/dfaa72b8-8c42-433e-a001-c9d58563379b /mnt/disk/matomo/

ln -s /mnt/disk/matomo/dfaa72b8-8c42-433e-a001-c9d58563379b  /home/yellowtent/appsdata/dfaa72b8-8c42-433e-a001-c9d58563379b

chown -R yellowtent /mnt/disk/matomo/

Start the app
This would be nice to automatically happen with a Cloudron tool.
I will post back and edit if I find any issues when doing this on the production.
Thanks for all of the help.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99993https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99993Tue, 14 Jan 2025 17:18:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Move backup location of mysqldump to volume on Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:03:14 GMT]]>For the backup issue atleast, -R is not needed. Just the top level directory and symlink has to be owned by yellowtent user

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99954https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99954Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:03:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Move backup location of mysqldump to volume on Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:49:51 GMT]]>@stevespaw said in Move backup location of mysqldump to volume:

OK now I will show my lack of linux. I did this all as root. What do I do now? How do I fix this permission issue? Thanks.

sudo chown -R yellowtent /path/to/directory
]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99931https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99931Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:49:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Move backup location of mysqldump to volume on Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:33:28 GMT]]>OK now I will show my lack of linux. I did this all as root. What do I do now? How do I fix this permission issue? Thanks.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99930https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99930Mon, 13 Jan 2025 21:33:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Move backup location of mysqldump to volume on Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:25:17 GMT]]>@stevespaw the directory has to be owned by the yellowtent user

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99923https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99923Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:25:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Move backup location of mysqldump to volume on Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:09:55 GMT]]>OK I have done the above, But get an error when doing a backup.
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]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99921https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99921Mon, 13 Jan 2025 17:09:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Move backup location of mysqldump to volume on Sat, 11 Jan 2025 09:31:35 GMT]]>@stevespaw you can symlink the /home/yellowtent/appsdata/appid to some external disk . Something like:

Stop the app
mv /home/yellowtent/appsdata/appid /mnt/volume/
ln -s /mnt/volume/appid /home/yellowtent/appsdata/appid
Start the app

Have a backup before you do this 🙂

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99750https://forum.cloudron.io/post/99750Sat, 11 Jan 2025 09:31:35 GMT