Datasets for each app or one for all?

[Smokie]

Hi All,

Just wondering if I should have a dataset for each app I install or one for all apps? I currently have Nextcloud running and I have gave that its own dataset. I am going to install Cloudflare app and Im not sure if I should give it its own dataset or not? I am thinking every app gets its own dataset?

Thoughts please ?

Thanks

 

[Samuel Tai]

It depends if apps need to share data between them. Without knowing your specific set of apps, it's difficult to make a recommendation. Typically, you'd want to structure your data in a way that if one app runs amok, it won't stomp on another app.

 

[Smokie]

I have a dataset for nextcloud, Dataset for my SMB Share and I’m about to install Cloudflare app. So far that’s all I have. Ill go with a dataset for each app I’m thinking.

 

[majorgear]

I have a dataset for nextcloud, Dataset for my SMB Share and I’m about to install Cloudflare app. So far that’s all I have. Ill go with a dataset for each app I’m thinking.

I think that I'm going to do the same. I'm coming from Longhorn clustered storage where I gave each application 1 or more dedicated volumes . I guess you can consider dedicated datasets to be the same thing.

 

[electricwildflower]

The way i have it set up is as followed

Program_Data
Emby
Mymediaforalexa
Metube
Qbittorrent

So basically the Dataset Program_Data is where the apps are located and then i create a Dataset inside this for each app so this way each app has it's own separate installation dataset so if an issue arises with 1 app i don't bugger all the apps plus if i need to re install an app i still have my configurations and data for the app in tact. Drop in the correct permissions for apps and i got a good system.

Currently in the process of creating a script i can run with a cron job which copies the content of Program_Data into a zip file and then moves the zip to a backups location making sure i get 5 backups and it overwrites the oldest backup.