Question: How to run AB on localhost but store data on NAS?

Hello!

I’m using docker-compose. Following the title if this issue: I first tried changing the whole data dir to a mounted path pointing to my NAS, but I got this error:

  archivebox_1  | [X] OSError: Failed to write /data/ArchiveBox.conf with fcntl.F_FULLFSYNC. ([Errno 22] Invalid argument)
  archivebox_1  |     You can store the archive/ subfolder on a hard drive or network share that doesn't support support syncronous writes,
  archivebox_1  |     but the main folder containing the index.sqlite3 and ArchiveBox.conf files must be on a filesystem that supports FSYNC.

I cannot figure out how to separate data/archive/ from the rest as I wish to store this on my NAS. I tried symlinking it but it just complains that data/archive/ already exists.

I would prefer to have as much data on my NAS so all or any of data/{logs,sonic,sources}/ as well.

How do I setup this with docker-compose?

Thank you kindly! in advance.

[cmuench]

@iwconfig I was able to share my archive directory on my Synology NAS. I mouted the archive directory directly from NFS.

version: '2.4'

services:
    archivebox:        
        image: ${DOCKER_IMAGE:-archivebox/archivebox:master}
        command: server --quick-init 0.0.0.0:8000
        restart: unless-stopped
        environment:
            - ALLOWED_HOSTS=*
            - MEDIA_MAX_SIZE=750m
        volumes:
            - ./volumes/data:/data
            - archivebox-archive:/data/archive

volumes:
  archivebox-archive:
      driver: local
      driver_opts:
        type: "nfs"
        o: "nfsvers=4,addr=192.168.1.12,rw"
        device: ":/volume1/archivebox/archive"

Difference is that I used docker to create the mount instead of fstab. Hope that also works on your side.

[iwconfig]

Thank you so much! I got it working now 😃 I just had one issue with permissions inside the docker container, so I had to do

docker exec -it archivebox_archivebox_1 chmod -R 777 /data/archive

Awesome! Again, thank you!

@pirate Maybe this should be mentioned in the documentation? If it already is, I’m sorry, I haven’t seen it.