Using S3 compatible service as primary storage for Nextcloud

vitobotta

I tried it 4-5 years ago and performance was bad, but I am trying it now again because it would be nice to have scalable storage for Nextcloud without having to deal with more storage on the server. I set up a test instance using iDrive e2 and it just started syncing a copy of some of my data to test performance.

Is anyone using this kind of setup with Nextcloud? Mind that I mean s3 as primary storage, not external.

vitobotta

I actually found some posts of mine from 2023 while searching. I had forgotten that I tried it again at the time and it seemed to work better. I think I switched to Hetzner's Storage Share in a rare moment when I thought I'd stop self hosting stuff.

risturiz

I have s3 + rclone + systemd ( with iDrive e2 )

[Unit]
Description=rclone - s3 mount for nextcloud %i data
Documentation=https://rclone.org/ man:rclone(1)
AssertPathExists=/etc/rclone/rclone-%i.conf
RequiresMountsFor=/srv/nc_data
Before=nginx.service
After=network-online.target
Wants=network-online.target

[Service]
Type=notify
Environment=RCLONE_CONFIG=/etc/rclone/rclone-%i.conf
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone \
    mount idrive-mia:nextcloud-%i /srv/nc_data/%i/files \
    --allow-other \
    --log-level INFO \
    --log-file /var/log/rclone/rclone-%i.log \
    --umask 002 \
    --use-server-modtime \
    --transfers 16 \
    --cache-dir /var/www/cache/rclone/%i \
    --vfs-cache-mode full \
    --vfs-fast-fingerprint \
    --vfs-read-chunk-size 8M \
    --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit off \
    --vfs-read-ahead 256M \
    --vfs-cache-max-age 1h \
    --vfs-cache-max-size 10G
ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -uz /srv/nc_data/%i/files
Restart=on-failure
User=www-data
Group=www-data

[Install]
WantedBy=default.target

I like this config ( have it for like one year without any problem )... But now im testing Nextcloud AIO