Nextcloud on Truenas: Resolving dataset issue

Software & Web Applications
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Hi everyone,

I’m encountering an issue with Nextcloud after upgrading my TrueNAS Scale instance to Dragonfish. My Nextcloud deployment consistently gets stuck in “Deploying” mode.

Background:

Prior to the upgrade, my previous Nextcloud instance (running for 1-2 years) functioned flawlessly using host paths as recommended in a video by Tom (details of the video unavailable).

To troubleshoot, I created a new Nextcloud instance (“nextcloud-2”) replicating the original configuration with the same host paths. However, nextcloud-2 also gets stuck in “Deploying.”

I was able to get a Nextcloud instance to run, but it was by setting all storage to iXVolumes, and I’m wanting to connect to the volume where I already have all of my user data.

Suspected Issue:

I suspect the problem might be related to using the same host path (“Nextcloud-Data”) for both AppData and User Data storage.

Questions:

  1. Could this shared host path be causing the deployment issue?
  2. If this is the issue, is there a recommended way to extract or copy the existing user data into a new dataset for a fresh Nextcloud installation?

Thank you in advance!

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I’m pretty sure you have to create a dataset for each volume you need to mount in your container. Cannot be the same dataset for all volume mounts.

So,

Photos = /mnt/tank/app/nc/data

Postgres data = /mnt/tank/app/nc/postgredata

And so on.