Data Export

Files

OpenCloud stores files by default in the file system under the path /var/lib/opencloud/. Any other path that is local to the server instance running the OpenCloud backend can be configured as alternative path using the environment variable OC_BASE_DATA_PATH.

Files and folders are stored in a folder structure underneath that base path in folder data/storage/users/.

Files are by default stored in the original format and not encrypted.

Metadata

File metadata is stored in the file system with every file. It is either in the extended file attributes (user namespace) or in a separate metadata file. That file is in the MessagePack format and can be read with the CLI tools for that file type.

Configuration

Configuration files are written as yaml files by default under $HOME/.config/OpenCloud.

Other

Other, non-file-related metadata such as links is also stored under the general data base path, in JSON format.