Cozy on Raspberry Pi

Manage Cozy from the Command Line

Although you can perform basic housekeeping tasks using Cozy's graphical interface, you can manage your Cozy installation from the command line using the dedicated cozy-monitor tool. To begin, connect to the Raspberry Pi running Cozy via SSH and run the

sudo cozy-monitor status

command to view the status of all installed apps. The commands

sudo cozy-monitor stop <app>
sudo cozy-monitor restart <app>

commands can be used to stop and restart a specific app. For example, to restart Cozy, use the command:

sudo cozy-monitor restart-cozy-stack

Cozy uses a CouchDB database as its storage back end, and several commands come in useful when working with the database, such as

sudo cozy-monitor compact cozy
sudo cozy-monitor cleanup cozy

commands to compact and clean up the default cozy database.

By default, all your data (file, photos, etc.) is stored in the /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb/ directory, but you can move it to another location (e.g., a mounted external USB hard disk). To do this, open the local.ini file in the Nano editor

sudo nano /usr/local/etc/couchdb/local.ini

and add the following segment:

[couchdb]
database_dir = /home/pi/cozy-data
view_index_dir = /home/pi/cozy-data

In this case, the cozy-data folder for storing Cozy data will reside in the /home/pi directory, but you can specify another destination.

sudo supervisorctl stop couchdb
mkdir /home/pi/cozy-data/
cp /usr/local/var/lib/couchdb/* \
  /home/pi/cozy-data/
sudo chown -R couchdb:couchdb \
  /home/pi/cozy-data/
supervisorctl start couchdb

The preceding commands enable the changes.

Final Word

There are many ways to build and deploy a personal cloud server, but if you want to do it with a minimum of effort, you can't go wrong with Cozy. This platform is easy to deploy, user-friendly, and its functionality can be extended using a growing selection of apps. What's not to like?

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