How to increase the storage on selfhosted instance (Docker)

[ArminEskandarii]

Hi there people ✌️❤️

I'm tryna self host Ente.io on my vps server.

I did use the docker 1 minute 1 command script from here

Though I gotta mention it's designed for localhost usecases and I had to make some changes to it to get it work on my vps.

But anyway, The only problem I have rn is to increase the storage for my user.

I did read every single documentation or anything I could find on the internet but just can't get it work.

Can someone tell me what is the easiest way to do this?

whether it is database injection or the CLI technique , I just need your help guys

it's an Ubuntu 20.04 VPS by the way

[mnvr]

The proper and robust way to do this is by using the CLI.

1. Install the CLI and make it connect to your self hosted instance.
2. If you're the first user, you're already the admin. Otherwise you can also become the admin by adding the following to your museum.yaml

internal:
    admin: <your-user-id>

4. Then use the ente admin update-subscription command.

This is documented at https://help.ente.io/self-hosting/guides/admin, but you mention that you've read the documentation, and I'm assuming you're not able to get one of the steps to work.

So alternatively, you can directly modify the DB. Someone has already provided a quick one line command for this also in the community guide, but I assume that is not working for you for some reason, so here are the steps one by one - So try something like this:

1. Note down the DB password that was autogenerated for you. You can find it corresponding to the "POSTGRES_PASSWORD" key in the "postgres" section of the compose.yaml e.g. something like POSTGRES_PASSWORD: nY6BUqxDaphM7SqQM1S0vzoYc8cx.

2. Make sure your cluster is running (e.g. docker compose up (foreground) or docker compose up -d (background)), and that you have signed up (so that your account has been created).

3. Now connect to your DB. We can do that by using docker compose exec (to run the command in the postgres container that is running within your cluster) and using psql as the command (which gives as an ability to run SQL commands against the DB). We use the credentials we noted down in step 1.

docker compose exec postgres env PGPASSWORD=nY6BUqxDaphM7SqQM1S0vzoYc8cx psql -U pguser -d ente_db  

Note: Run this command from within the my-ente folder.

If everything goes fine you should see an SQL prompt

ente_db=# 

4. Give ALL the users 1 TB of storage (you can give any amount, and also give it only to specific users, I'm only keeping it simple for here) by running the following SQL.

update subscriptions set storage = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 :: bigint;

If everything is fine you should see UPDATE 1. Here is how the entire interaction would've looked:

my-ente$ docker compose exec postgres env PGPASSWORD=nY6BUqxDaphM7SqQM1S0vzoYc8cx psql -U pguser -d ente_db  
psql (15.12 (Debian 15.12-1.pgdg120+1))
Type "help" for help.

ente_db=# update subscriptions set storage = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 :: bigint;
UPDATE 1

Now refresh your web app or reopen your mobile app, and you should see 1TB storage.

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(Note: I'm just writing this in case it helps in some way! If someone else has a more beginner friendly breakdown for the same, please do chime in)

[ArminEskandarii]

The proper and robust way to do this is by using the CLI.

1. Install the CLI and make it connect to your self hosted instance.
2. If you're the first user, you're already the admin. Otherwise you can also become the admin by adding the following to your museum.yaml

internal:
    admin: <your-user-id>

4. Then use the ente admin update-subscription command.

This is documented at https://help.ente.io/self-hosting/guides/admin, but you mention that you've read the documentation, and I'm assuming you're not able to get one of the steps to work.

So alternatively, you can directly modify the DB. Someone has already provided a quick one line command for this also in the community guide, but I assume that is not working for you for some reason, so here are the steps one by one - So try something like this:

1. Note down the DB password that was autogenerated for you. You can find it corresponding to the "POSTGRES_PASSWORD" key in the "postgres" section of the compose.yaml e.g. something like POSTGRES_PASSWORD: nY6BUqxDaphM7SqQM1S0vzoYc8cx.

2. Make sure your cluster is running (e.g. docker compose up (foreground) or docker compose up -d (background)), and that you have signed up (so that your account has been created).

3. Now connect to your DB. We can do that by using docker compose exec (to run the command in the postgres container that is running within your cluster) and using psql as the command (which gives as an ability to run SQL commands against the DB). We use the credentials we noted down in step 1.

docker compose exec postgres env PGPASSWORD=nY6BUqxDaphM7SqQM1S0vzoYc8cx psql -U pguser -d ente_db  

Note: Run this command from within the my-ente folder.

If everything goes fine you should see an SQL prompt

ente_db=# 

4. Give ALL the users 1 TB of storage (you can give any amount, and also give it only to specific users, I'm only keeping it simple for here) by running the following SQL.

update subscriptions set storage = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 :: bigint;

If everything is fine you should see UPDATE 1. Here is how the entire interaction would've looked:

my-ente$ docker compose exec postgres env PGPASSWORD=nY6BUqxDaphM7SqQM1S0vzoYc8cx psql -U pguser -d ente_db  
psql (15.12 (Debian 15.12-1.pgdg120+1))
Type "help" for help.

ente_db=# update subscriptions set storage = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 :: bigint;
UPDATE 1

Now refresh your web app or reopen your mobile app, and you should see 1TB storage.

---

(Note: I'm just writing this in case it helps in some way! If someone else has a more beginner friendly breakdown for the same, please do chime in)

Alright brother, I don't how to thank you man, But to be honest I could get it to work last night before you submite the response.

So I'm glad man.

But I just have 1 more question man, Is ente selfhosted through http safe?

Also posted in here

Please take a look and give me an abswer on that

[mnvr]

http is not safe. of course, the data will be private since it is end to end encrypted, but without using https many other things can go wrong.

[Patten310]

Hi,

i used this way <update subscriptions set storage = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 :: bigint;> for setting up the storage, because the othet way i dont get work on my raspi. How can I set it up to 4TB?

Thanks for your answer.