S3 backend for files

[CkuT]

Hi !

It would be useful for min.io/scaleway/aws/... S3-like compatible storage

[C0nsultant]

I am currently using such a setup. What you're proposing could be natively integrated into NG, but it is probably out-of-scope for the project. Storage backends are assumed to be simple fuse mounts, so the easiest way to support virtually any backend (local, temporary, remote,... you name it) is to expose your target as a mount point and then point the PAPERLESS_MEDIA_ROOT to this directory. For S3-esque buckets, you have at least three options:

• https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse
• https://github.com/skoobe/riofs
• https://github.com/rclone/rclone

In my setup, I am mirroring a local directory to two different backends (S3 and ZFS) using rclone. The benefit I get from it is encrypted object storage under my full control, while simultaneously having the performance of locally cached files.

[jonaswinkler]

Certainly out of scope. If I were to add support for that, I'd also have to maintain it, fix bugs, documentation, etc. And I barely have the time to keep up with the project even in its current state :)

[iverona]

Hi! I'm sure this is a pretty basic question, but I cannot figure how to get it working. This is my configuration:

Summary
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Target folder: /home/iverona/paperless-ng
Consume folder: /home/iverona/paperless-ng/consume
Media folder: /home/iverona/iverona-paperless-bucket/media
Data folder: /home/iverona/iverona-paperless-bucket/data

but when starting the webserver container I get:

Error response from daemon: error while creating mount source path '/home/iverona/iverona-paperless-bucket/data': mkdir /home/iverona/iverona-paperless-bucket: file exists

Where /home/iverona/iverona-paperless-bucket/ is an empty, fuse-mounted GCS bucket. What am I doing wrong?

thanks!

[iverona]

Hi,

just for the record, I had to mount the fuse volume with the allow_others option. Now it's working.