Hello,
I have follow this tuto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSRoJIrt13Y for installing Nextcloud with Dietpi. As I wanted to test it for a while I have connect a USB stick before having a bigger HDD. Everything is working fine but now I would like to replace my USB stick by a USB HDD drive. I also would like to keep the actual files stored on the USB stick. Do someone knows how to do so ?
Data are actually saved under /mnt/dietpi_userdata/nextcloud_data.
Regards.
Hi,
did you stored your entire dietpi-user data on the USB stick?
hi Joulinar,
not sure about that, how can I check ?
As mentioned in https://dietpi.com/forum/t/dietpi-software-user-data/400/1 :
root@DietPi:~# readlink -f /mnt/dietpi_userdata
/mnt/dietpi_userdata
root@DietPi:~# df /mnt/dietpi_userdata
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root 61116684 1637228 56971888 3% /
root@DietPi:~# df /mnt/dietpi_userdata/nextcloud_data
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 119266264 24428236 94821644 21% /mnt/dietpi_userdata/nextcloud_data
did you installed your entire system on that USB stick?
can you share lsblk -o name,fstype,label,size,ro,type,mountpoint,partuuid,uuid
Hi,
No this tutorial interested me because only the data were stored on an external drive.
root@DietPi:~# lsblk -o name,fstype,label,size,ro,type,mountpoint,partuuid,uuid
NAME FSTYPE LABEL SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT PARTUUID UUID
sda 116.1G 0 disk
└─sda1 ext4 116.1G 0 part /mnt/dietp 02c06ec7-01 f00aa157-7137-4087-a1e9-1b491750e891
mmcblk0 59.5G 0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1
│ vfat boot 256M 0 part /boot 907af7d0-01 4AD7-B4D5
└─mmcblk0p2
ext4 rootfs
59.2G 0 part / 907af7d0-02 2887d26c-6ae7-449d-9701-c5a4018755b0
ah ok you mounted the USB stick directly to /mnt/dietpi_userdata/nextcloud_data
Let’s verify to be sure 
cat /etc/fstab
root@DietPi:~# cat /etc/fstab
# You can use "dietpi-drive_manager" to setup mounts.
# NB: It overwrites and re-creates physical drive mount entries on use.
#----------------------------------------------------------------
# NETWORK
#----------------------------------------------------------------
#----------------------------------------------------------------
# TMPFS
#----------------------------------------------------------------
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs size=1938M,noatime,lazytime,nodev,nosuid,mode=1777
tmpfs /var/log tmpfs size=50M,noatime,lazytime,nodev,nosuid,mode=1777
#----------------------------------------------------------------
# MISC: ecryptfs, vboxsf (VirtualBox shared folder), gluster, bind mounts
#----------------------------------------------------------------
#----------------------------------------------------------------
# SWAPFILE
#----------------------------------------------------------------
#----------------------------------------------------------------
# PHYSICAL DRIVES
#----------------------------------------------------------------
PARTUUID=907af7d0-02 / ext4 noatime,lazytime,rw 0 1
PARTUUID=907af7d0-01 /boot vfat noatime,lazytime,rw 0 2
UUID=f00aa157-7137-4087-a1e9-1b491750e891 /mnt/dietpi_userdata/nextcloud_data ext4 noatime,lazytime,rw,nofail,noauto,x-systemd.automount
#UUID=c2b04798-8023-41df-bd1a-f9402db8f8bc /mnt/c2b04798-8023-41df-bd1a-f9402db8f8bc ext4 noatime,lazytime,rw,nofail,noauto,x-systemd.automount
ok it should be easy to copy all data to your new HDD
- connect your HDD to your system
- go to dietpi-drive_manager
- I assume your HDD is empty and we are going to format it before usage
- select the new HDD and check Format
- follow the dialog and mount the HDD to /mnt/hdd at the end
- leave dietpi-drive_manager
- run dietpi-services stop to stop all services
- let’s check and install rsync
- run apt update && apt install rsync -y
- let’s copy files now rsync -avH --progress /mnt/dietpi_userdata/nextcloud_data/ /mnt/hdd/
- now we need to switch disk and mount points. go to dietpi-drive_manager
- select your HDD and unmount the device
- select your USB stick and unmount the device
- hopefully this is working and both device are not in use/blocked
- if all is working well and both devices are not mounted anymore, select your HDD and mount it to /mnt/dietpi_userdata/nextcloud_data/
- leave dietpi-drive_manager
- run dietpi-services start to start all services
- if there are no error messages, NextCloud should be using data on HDD now.
- do a reboot and removed the USB stick
- check inside NextCloud if you are able to access/store/remove data
thank you Joulinar, i can not have access to the system today, i will test it tomorrow and let you know. thank you anyway for your help.
Hello Joulinar,
So I have followed your procedure and everything went well until step 15. i have had an error because drive_manager didn’t let me mount the new drive to /mnt/dietpi_userdata/nextcloud_data because the folder was not empty.
I have still restarted the services (step17) and I have decided to edit the /etc/fstab and uncomment the line corresponding to the new drive and write /mnt/dietpi_userdata/nextcloud_data manually.
After remove the USB stick and done a reboot the new drive was mount. I have check with Nextcloud and my data were there and everything is fully functionnal. Great !!! 
You should mark your procedure as tutorial for those who would like to change their drive with a similar configuration than mine. thank you very much for your kind cooperation.
yes that was one of the steps having the potential to fail. I guess the USB stick was not fully unmounted. And indeed changing /etc/fstab would be the other option. At the end drive manager is not doing anything else 
Good that it was working this way at the end.