5 posts tagged with "faq"

Drives come and go. A drive gets too small, a backup drive gets replaced by a bigger one, or the Movies/TV-Shows drive simply isn't needed on the server anymore. But once a drive was mounted during the setup, that mount is persistent - and your server keeps looking for it after every reboot.

Just unplugging the drive is therefore not enough. In the worst case, Nextcloud lands in maintenance mode on the next boot and stays there, because the automount of the drive failed. Snapshot and scrub cronjobs start to report errors, and backups fail with a mail every day.

The new FAQ guide walks you through it, split up by drive type: the encrypted external data SSD/HDD, an unencrypted BTRFS drive like the Movies/TV-Shows drive, unencrypted NTFS drives, Bitlocker encrypted drives and the backup drives. Each section tells you exactly which entries you need to remove from the automount script, the crontab and the fstab so that your server boots cleanly again without the drive.

And there is a second scenario that the guide covers: replacing a drive with a new one. Your old drive got too small? Then you don't want to start from scratch. The guide shows you how to prepare the new drive, copy everything over with rsync and then hand the mountpath of the old drive over to the new one.

That last part is the trick. Your server refers to your drives by their mountpath all over the place - in your SMB-shares, in the local storages and user root folders in Nextcloud, in your PLEX/Jellyfin libraries and in the backup scripts. Give the new drive the mountpath of the old one, and all of that simply keeps working without you having to touch a single one of those configurations. There is one section for the backup drives and one for all other drives.

You can check it out here

Thanks a lot to LeoHobi for suggesting this guide!

In the recent past, we've created three new articles that you might be interested in.

The first one is an addition to Nextcloud that allows you to edit/comment PDF files. See this article

Second is a FAQ article about how to use MusicBrainz Picard to edit the metadata of your Audio/Music files. You can find it here: click here

The last is an article about a script that allows you to shrink your database if it got too big which may happen over time if you are using the external storage app that is part of the Nextcloud-Nas-Guide. See this article

After a recent switch to new server hardware, I've discovered that Nextcloud wasn't performing better than before although the hardware and software configuration got better by a lot which pointed to a bottleneck somewhere else. Because of my findings, I've decided to create a new FAQ guide how to improve the performance of your Nextcloud installation. You can find it here

After the initial setup is done, there might be the demand to create new users that were initially not considered. Since it isn't very clear currently how to do that, we've decided to create this FAQ guide.

You can check it out here

We've just created a new FAQ guide that explains how you should update your Nextcloud if a new major version was found.

You can check it out here