Nextcloudpi Compose

Aims to provide everything needed to easily spin up a nextcloud instance in minutes using nextcloudpi docker

Prerequisites

Linux PC with Ubuntu/Debian/Raspian

Works great on Raspberry Pi 4

Setup Raspberry Pi

See Setting up your Raspberry Pi

Install docker and docker-compose

See Geek's Circuit: Install Docker on Raspberry Pi

Mount your data and backup disks

See The Pi Hut: Mount external drive on Raspberry Pi

You can base your fstab on example_fstab in this repo

Install Borg Backup

sudo apt update && sudo apt install borgbackup

Setup remote backup mount (SSH)

As root

• apt install sshfs

• mkdir /mnt/your_mountpoint

• nano /etc/fstab and add

  • your_user@your_other_server:~/ /mnt/your_mountpoint fuse.sshfs noauto,x-systemd.automount,_netdev,reconnect,identityfile=/home/sammy/.ssh/id_rsa,allow_other,default_permissions 0 0

• ssh-copy-id your_user@your_other_server

Config

• Fill in your infos in the .env file

• Initialize borg repository:

  • borg init -e repokey-blake2 /mnt/your_mountpoint
  • Set and note password
  • Export and save key: borg key export /mnt/yourmountpoint/data exported-key.txt

• Fill in your setup info into the borg_backup_settings.bash

• Make borg_backup_settings.bash owned by root, so no other user can read the password:

  • sudo chown root:root borg_backup_settings.bash
  • sudo chmod og-rwx borg_backup_settings.bash

• Add entries to root's crontab based on example_crontab:

  • sudo crontab -e

Start Nextcloud container

docker pull ownyourbits/nextcloudpi:latest

docker-compose up -d