Exisitng files on mount

[donsony]

Is there some way existing files in a mount can be imported or indexed by OpenCloud?

I have huge amount of data lying in a folder on the same ssd where the OC_DATA_DIR is present. Is it possible I can transfer them to storage folder using SSH and opencloud can index them?

[micbar]

@donsony This is possible in a controlled environment.

OpenCloud can discover files if they belong to the userid 1000. Please make sure they are before you copy them. If you copy them first and change the ownership later, it will not work.

[elderdev]

Hello @micbar . I'm also interested in using files already on my drive. Do I just need to change the permissions on the files and folders and copy them to my OpenCloud user's uploads folder?

[donsony]

I can confirm this works. Rather than using the uploads folder, I used the specific user folder. I found the folder by creating a new file and looking for it inside the file structure

[micbar]

@aduffeck can you answer that?

[aduffeck]

Yes. Just make sure that files can be read and written by the opencloud process (for attaching the metadata) and copy the files into the according space. The new data will then be picked up next time opencloud starts. Alternatively you can run opencloud with STORAGE_USERS_POSIX_WATCH_FS=true in which case it'll use inotify and inotifywait to detect new files automagically.
Please not that this only works with the posix storage driver (which is the default).