Advice for NextCloud and Portainer
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pankompot · 2023-09-26 19:14

Hello,

im asking for two advices, first one is that i use portainer for
managing containers. I have also instaled Watchtower too, and problem
is, when watchtower update nextcloud, i need to manually log in
container and add "apt update" and "apt install smbclient", because
default NC image donesn't include it. Where i can in portainer add
this option after reacreating contaniner ? And restarting it probably,
because after installing smbdclient i must restart it to make function
access to NAS.

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And second is about migrationg google photos to NC. I followed TechHut
YT video tutorial how to create Google API for NC, i succesfully added
to NC, but when i run Photos migration nothing happens. On google API
i see it wants to be listed
(google.photos.library.v1.PhotosLibrary.ListSharedAlbums etc., but
only once with no success). Any other better ideas how to migrate ?

Thanks for help !

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Zealousideal_Rate420 · 2023-09-26 20:28

For the first part, you need to create a new image that imports from
the one you are using and runs the two commands, something like

>FROM
>
>RUN apt update
>
>RUN apt install -y smbclient

In portainer you can add it on 'images' > create new image. I don't
know however how to refresh the custom image after the source one is
updated using portainer. Hopefully somebody can help

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For the second, just some warning. Google API does not pull the raw
images. It's a reduced and some metadata is removed. If you care about
those things, better use a checkout and load them manually.

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And one more advice. Portainer looks nice, but when something goes
wrong it's more a hindrance than anything else. Mine just refuses to
update stacks, I have to do each container manually. I just finished
un-portainer my server because it was too much of an issue of late.
CLI will always work, so unless you have too much stuff to manage on
CLI, i'll advice you give it a try

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pankompot · 2023-09-27 18:48

Thank you for answer. I'll take a look at it