<![CDATA[Possible to move Mastodon Content to DO spaces or other external storage?]]>Is this possible so I don't have to upgrade the droplet?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/7961/possible-to-move-mastodon-content-to-do-spaces-or-other-external-storageRSS for NodeFri, 14 Aug 2026 07:04:08 GMTThu, 10 Nov 2022 14:20:41 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Possible to move Mastodon Content to DO spaces or other external storage? on Fri, 18 Nov 2022 18:16:55 GMT]]>Yesterday, we pushed a package which prunes the cache a bit more aggressively - https://git.cloudron.io/cloudron/mastodon-app/-/commit/87e046061335a04c96cd9a133c4bf679caeacb2a . Atleast, in our instance, that brought down the cache size from 12G to almost 2GB.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/56425https://forum.cloudron.io/post/56425Fri, 18 Nov 2022 18:16:55 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Possible to move Mastodon Content to DO spaces or other external storage? on Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:41:36 GMT]]>Just an FYI - I moved cache off local to an S3 endpoint. It was cake. It's a bit 'slower' now but you can also add a local'ish cache to speed things up a bit.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/56420https://forum.cloudron.io/post/56420Fri, 18 Nov 2022 16:41:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Possible to move Mastodon Content to DO spaces or other external storage? on Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:05:41 GMT]]>also good to move backups off the main disk - this can be done easily for all of Cloudron with DO spaces or other methods via the backup settings

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/56385https://forum.cloudron.io/post/56385Fri, 18 Nov 2022 05:05:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Possible to move Mastodon Content to DO spaces or other external storage? on Wed, 16 Nov 2022 10:09:25 GMT]]>@scooke easy. Cloudrons app packages just contain the core app packed as docker container. Everything you customize or create during runtime is stored in appdata. You can move the appdata directory to another location outside of Cloudron but the app itself will still be powered and maintained by Cloudron. Read the docs (data-directory) 🙂

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/56243https://forum.cloudron.io/post/56243Wed, 16 Nov 2022 10:09:25 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Possible to move Mastodon Content to DO spaces or other external storage? on Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:03:19 GMT]]>@Supaiku I believe you both, I still don't get it! So, Cloudron lets you move the entire app off of the Cloudron disk to the external Volume, and it runs from there? My mind isn't grasping that because when I've used external Volumes for data , it keeps disconnecting. So, how could an entire app run off of the external volume?

If the app itself stays on the Cloudron, then how does Mastodon, or Cloudron, know what the Data is to move to the external Volume? Because, from what I understand, within Mastodon you need to tell it where the external data store is. Is this automatically done by Cloudron then if you choose the external Volume at its mount point?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/56204https://forum.cloudron.io/post/56204Tue, 15 Nov 2022 18:03:19 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Possible to move Mastodon Content to DO spaces or other external storage? on Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:10:21 GMT]]>@scooke yes, @subven 's response is how I did it

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/56190https://forum.cloudron.io/post/56190Tue, 15 Nov 2022 14:10:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Possible to move Mastodon Content to DO spaces or other external storage? on Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:22:37 GMT]]>@scooke see my second screenshot above. You can transfer the whole data directory to the mounted volume so it can be used with any app. The other option is to add a volume as mount point inside the container so the app can utilize it. If Mastodon has the option to configure media/cache/other directorys, this could be utilized this way.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/55943https://forum.cloudron.io/post/55943Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:22:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Possible to move Mastodon Content to DO spaces or other external storage? on Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:19:02 GMT]]>@Supaiku Not really. What I meant was how did you get Mastodon to use this external storage?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/55942https://forum.cloudron.io/post/55942Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:19:02 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Possible to move Mastodon Content to DO spaces or other external storage? on Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:08:37 GMT]]>@scooke

I added a volume to my cloudron Digital Ocean droplet on the Volumes menu. and followed their config instructions to mount it to a mount point.
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Then in cloudron under the main settings menu under volumes I added the volume with a filesystem mount point. Here's what it looks like after being setup:
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Once it was added as a mount point I could add the volume and select it from the list as shown in @subven 's screenshots.

Is that enough to get you going?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/55941https://forum.cloudron.io/post/55941Fri, 11 Nov 2022 20:08:37 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Possible to move Mastodon Content to DO spaces or other external storage? on Fri, 11 Nov 2022 06:49:21 GMT]]>@Supaiku Can you share how you set this up please? I don't see where I would enter this info, and in what syntax, in the .env.production. Or is it a preference within the app?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/55878https://forum.cloudron.io/post/55878Fri, 11 Nov 2022 06:49:21 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Possible to move Mastodon Content to DO spaces or other external storage? on Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:26:49 GMT]]>@nebulon Thank ya'll! that all did the trick 🙂 much apprciated!

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/55867https://forum.cloudron.io/post/55867Thu, 10 Nov 2022 23:26:49 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Possible to move Mastodon Content to DO spaces or other external storage? on Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:23:54 GMT]]>Volumes would be the answer, more details on that at https://docs.cloudron.io/apps/#data-directory

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/55826https://forum.cloudron.io/post/55826Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:23:54 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Possible to move Mastodon Content to DO spaces or other external storage? on Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:15:12 GMT]]>You can add a volume to Cloudron and transfer appdata per app to it.

At Cloudron:
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At the app settings:
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]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/55824https://forum.cloudron.io/post/55824Thu, 10 Nov 2022 15:15:12 GMT