Help with Wasabi mounting

[privsec]

@robi I disabled ssh, and am using my VPS "ssh" console.

Tbh, I dont know how to re-enable root user
I ran this https://github.com/akcryptoguy/vps-harden and ever since I cant get ssh to work. So I am forced to do it all by hand

[robi]

@privsec you likely edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config

[privsec]

@robi Thank you.

I have access again for easier troubleshooting and I ended up reinstalling the OS and everything and once it all came back up I was able to add mounts.

Though its odd. I changed my data directory for nextcloud to /mnt/volumes/nextcloud and not all content is there.

Like if I click files manager it takes me to what Id assume is the cloud drive from wasabi, but there are files there that are not in wasabi

In addition, when I try to view the logs for any application OR for cloudron itself I am getting

[privsec]

@privsec As an example
That is on my server via CLI

And this
That is within the nextcloud bucket for my app.

[privsec]

I am uploading 7.23 gigs worth of files and will report back. On my VPS server the SSD had 131.59gb free out of 156gb

When the uploads finish, Ill report back.

[privsec]

So, I confirmed its saving data to the ssd of the VPS rather than sending it to the cloud

The uploads are not complete yet, but its evident that they are being stored locally rather then in the cloud.

Below is my Nexcloud app storage setting. Nexcloud is the actual rclone mounted folder.

Am I doing something wrong?

[girish]

@privsec Did I understand correctly that /mnt/volumes/nextcloud is an rclone wasabi mount and you have also moved the app data directory of nextcloud to this location ? If so, what you have done seems correct. I don't know about the correctness of rclone itself nor do I know about how rclone mounting really works. Does the mount show up in df -h output ?

You say there is a discrepancy between what's the in the filesystem and what's in wasabi, so this looks like some rclone issue?

[robi]

can you paste the output of:

df -h

mount

How did you set up rclone? (OS pkg, latest, beta)
Is rclone still running?

What version is it?

[privsec]

@girish It might be an rclone issue

@robi
I installed Rclone by following these steps https://rclone.org/install/

1. curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash
2. rclone config
   3 rclone mount remote:path /path/to/mountpoint --vfs-cache-mode full --daemon

df -h

root@v2202012134940134654:~# df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev            3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev
tmpfs           798M   11M  788M   2% /run
/dev/sda3       157G   25G  126G  17% /
tmpfs           3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs           3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda2       976M  146M  764M  17% /boot
overlay         157G   25G  126G  17% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/5e80dc05d8a594a5a0c51aa5602ca124b428e0edba09181759e184497e45a875/merged
overlay         157G   25G  126G  17% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/903a9ff390459afb42b38eaa6b07c0f30f4f45fa413e154e35f766d3bcec7893/merged
overlay         157G   25G  126G  17% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/6af811d56e81cce0af9c14fcb1f0eadb6466a4a4eaa6bfd750eed95d5207c688/merged
overlay         157G   25G  126G  17% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/fbdaaedecbb9dbeeb0212e3dadb0cb32697ad523af7cbaf713a25bd567536edb/merged
overlay         157G   25G  126G  17% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/0c70992b7b8b2c704fc0a080263eb8eb09ae8518fc7054518ce58b75b4ad7e0d/merged
overlay         157G   25G  126G  17% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/f0d4d24114f30306a670e596a11d42b5fde57d30cee607746760dba613331055/merged
overlay         157G   25G  126G  17% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/ed4fd11e18c018a69bde9307d18a20f7380621126baf20e6de96949cb2a0cb19/merged
overlay         157G   25G  126G  17% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/c03dea8bf938e7044b8f9eb746dfbdcce955e69534c2c6a82b86c22c5aaaca5c/merged
overlay         157G   25G  126G  17% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/2eb8958e2598de5291a0895da411df947b97a6f873022b5eab415b6b2f8678b6/merged
overlay         157G   25G  126G  17% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/57f8ec7cc792bcc8e7f8c6a3a24c89cc2ef74bfcf794423a422d75aec0825144/merged
tmpfs           798M     0  798M   0% /run/user/0
overlay         157G   25G  126G  17% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/acd1b16c14ff94c587d697ff2a57c1c52df183d034ac7a7067f6a6b251a88977/merged
overlay         157G   25G  126G  17% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/c65f5aa0b3af3f75055a43b3a8d529b0a3fd51d23806538e4c5b8d2173ac4489/merged
overlay         157G   25G  126G  17% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/299711c86c910f26718ad9670963b511d86726d61cb67716d1f8566dbd83addd/merged
overlay         157G   25G  126G  17% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/043dea9ba03986e56e9fbd7f3760faf2dd4538db77839be209c049e74648a0be/merged
overlay         157G   25G  126G  17% /var/lib/docker/overlay2/0d3609e2d1f83f95df827fce2598eb713edf161e1a8bf0a01045621e1061ad95/merged

[girish]

@privsec From a casual reading of rclone, it seems that it's a FUSE mount. Isn't the mount point supposed to appear in df -h output ? Also, see https://linoxide.com/linux-command/list-mounted-drives-on-linux/ . I think it's not mounted properly (I also don't know if this mount persists reboots, maybe you rebooted in the middle).

[privsec]

@girish

My mount output was too large. So I have it in this .txt file

Mount.txt

In addition, it is still running and the version is here

root@v2202012134940134654:~# rclone --version
rclone v1.53.3

• os/arch: linux/amd64
• go version: go1.15.5

[girish]

@privsec So, the df output says /dev/sda3 157G 25G 126G 17% /. Doesn't this mean, it's working as expected ? I think the Cloudron graphs are probably wrong because we haven't really accounted for this FUSE use case (since it doesn't appear in df output).

What we do is: get df output. Then substract away the du output size of each app. I think in your case, the app is in a FUSE mount, so the code will blindly subtract from the disk output and show wrong numbers.

[privsec]

@girish If that is the case then how come I see data in the mounted path, but not in the wasabi bucket?

In the data directory I see no files

But via file manager
I see these files
But in wasabi I see

Something isnt right and I dont know what it is

[girish]

@privsec I remember the Backblaze B2 UI does not always show the latest items in the object store. Could it be similar with Wasabi? If you create a file in the filesystem, do you see it in wasabi immediately? One other idea is to install rclone in another machine and list the remote wasabi mount. What objects/files do you see?

[privsec]

@girish Nope, I added 7 giggs of files and nothing is in wasabi.

Do you mean set up a second instance of rclone on another machine, set up the remote there and see if rclone syncs the files with the 2nd machine?

Is there a better/different way to do a file mounting?

I only did rclone based off of @robi 's request/recommendation

[girish]

@privsec You can try s3fs because wasabi even has an article about it - https://wasabi-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001744651-How-do-I-use-S3FS-with-Wasabi- . Also, for a start, I would test the mount first without Cloudron involved at all, just to make sure it's not Cloudron related.

[robi]

If we can't validate the rclone mount, don't continue with apps & Cloudron.

Same for s3fs if you're going to try that again.

The reason you see files locally but not remotely is because there's something wrong with the mount or it didn't work, hence all files written are only in a local directory.
Remote is never getting data via the mount.

[privsec]

@robi
To be clear, are you saying to stop trying? Or are you saying to verify the mount on my Server OS first and then afterwords resume with cloudron?

@girish

I will test the mount outside of cloudron and then report back.

In addition, I will try out s3fs again and try to get that to work for me.

[robi]

@privsec the latter.

verify the mount on my Server OS first and then afterwords resume with cloudron

[privsec]

@robi @girish
Ok, noob alert

Other then running rclone lsd remote:bucket and rclone ls wasabi:nextcloud.myprivsec. I do not know how to test rclones connection.

I just created an empty text file called "hello.txt" via touch hello.txt in the mounted folder on my server, and it did not get sent to wasabi.

So then that means that the connection is not working right?

Could this be do to unmounting after a reboot? I believe one occurred after setting the mount up. How do i get this to persist through reboots?

I am going to try out the s3fs once more right now and will report back on that.