Help with Wasabi mounting
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Ok, well I just dont get it.
ITs almost as if wasabi and cloudron are only syncing some information and not all. And honestly, its irritating the crap out of me to the point where I might just cancel the subscription I bought banking on getting nextlcoud and wasabi to work.
This should not be this difficult or problem prone.App settings
The base directory has no data in it. Which is what I told it to do.
In this photo, it is evident that there is data inside the /mnt/volumes/nextcloud folder
However, in my wasabi bucket, there is no where near as much info
Why is cloudron only syncing a piece of the full app folder?
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In addition, I thought maybe it was a folder/directory issue so I create one deeper level folder called wasabi in my server (fulll path
/mnt/volumes/nextcloud/wasabi) and then I ran the commands3fs xxxx /mnt/volumes/nextcloud/wasabi -o passwd_file=/etc/passwd-s3fs -o url=https://s3.eu-central-1.wasabisys.comand then I went to the dashboard for nextcloud and moved the directory
Then I went to wasabi to see if anything got moved to it, and there is nothing.
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And, I cant do the remaining steps either per
https://wasabi-support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001744651-How-do-I-use-S3FS-with-Wasabi-
As when I try to follow these steps, I get this
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And probably my final note,
I cant access the console of nextcloud either. It keeps doing this loopFirst this one
And then this one
And hen it goes back to
Keep in mind, this is a brand new, fresh install not even logged into yet, my cache is cleared out as well
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@privsec Is the goal here to have a large amount of space external (at correct price) to the server? If you are hosted on a VPS is there an option for you to attach external storage? For example, many VPS providers like time4vps, hetzner etc have quite cheap external disks that can be attached to a server. The reason I ask is even if s3fs or rclone mount does work, it's probably going to be quite slow - for example, I see posts like https://serverfault.com/questions/396100/s3fs-performance-improvements-or-alternative . We have no experience with how well these mounts work and if they work at all. Maybe files go missing, maybe it's unstable, we don't know.
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So I found some interesting posts:
- https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/dplfoa/why_is_s3fs_such_a_bad_idea/
- https://www.reddit.com/r/aws/comments/a5jdth/what_are_peoples_thoughts_on_using_s3fs_in/
The point of both of them is that S3FS is not a file system and as such file permissions won't work. It's also not consistent (ie. if you write and read back, it may not be the same). This makes it pretty much unsuitable for making it an app data directory. What might work is if you make it as an external storage inside nextcloud - https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/latest/admin_manual/configuration_files/external_storage_configuration_gui.html. I didn't suggest this earlier because I think you said you didn't want this in your initial post. Can you recheck this? Because I think it will provide what you want. You can just add the wasabi storage space inside nextcloud and it will appear as a folder for your users (you can create 1 bucket for each user or something).
@privsec So, I think it's best not to go down this s3fs route, it won't work reliably.
(If you were banking on s3fs somehow, for refunds etc, not a problem
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@privsec We tried this once and it was unbearably slow. Personally I'd look for ways to reduce the Nextcloud storage needs and use a native mounted drive from the host, and just offer an Archive Wasabi S3 bucket for people to move things no longer needed for regular access to that to save space needs on the main NC.
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@marcusquinn Cyber Duck/Mountain Duck is very good as a platform to making Wasabi/S3 storage quite accessible to users if they need.
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@marcusquinn
I can not get a mounted drive on my host to actually work. I have tried both Rclone and S3FS, both gave me the same result of no errors, but no syncing.I have decided (atleast for now till I find a better solution) to give each user on nextcloud a wasabi bucket as a external storage drive, and restrict only them to be able to access that bucket.
I am now working on trying to figure out how to remove the built in files for nextcloud to just have the external storage folder listed with the nextcloud folders/files within the wasabi drive.
In regards to Cyber Duck/Mountain Duck, whats the difference between the external storage connection in nextcloud and them ? Is there a performance difference?
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@privsec I realise host local storage isn't cheap, and Wasabi is cheap, which is why we tried doing what you are once. Maybe you'll have a different experience but we just found the juice wasn't worth the squeeze, especially with large numbers of small files.
It might work for something like Video storage where there's fewer files but I just don't fancy the slow user experience costs and would always opt for speed over price since time is so much more expensive if users are spending too much waiting on their file services to show results.
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@privsec Just reading this, not sure if you've read? I'm not saying i can't be done, just that we gave up. Maybe this helps? I'm still reading: https://autoize.com/s3-compatible-storage-for-nextcloud/
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