[Feature] Store media in yunohost user home/nextcloud folder

[Gredin67]

Synapse data can be huge. So are the backups of the app.
In homeserver.yaml it is possible to set custom path to store media.

We could add an option to store media data in the home folder of the corresponding Yunohost user. Even better, the media could be reached directly in Nextcloud in a given folder. I know that Nextcloud data are either stored in home or in specific folder, depending on an install parameter.

[lapineige]

Don't you need to use nextcloud-cli to sync the changes in that case ? 🤔

[Josue-T]

Data are already stored in /home/yunohost.app/matrix-synapse

[Gredin67]

I meant would there be a way to store the Matrix media of a SSO/Yunohost user in his home folder ~, and even better in some sub-folder of his Nextcloud folder. The idea would be that media generated by his synapse chats would be considered in his storage quota.
I don't have a clue how Yunohost user data are stored, thus my idea may not make sense.

[MayeulC]

Interesting feature request, this makes sense to me.

Maybe you could use an external media repository like https://matrix.org/docs/projects/other/matrix-media-repo (https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-media-repo)

I don't think this is a feature of that repository, so you could open a feature request there :)

[jchammons]

I have also come across the following article:

• https://levans.fr/shrink-synapse-database.html

It makes mention of some potential things changing upstream:

• garbage collect forgotten rooms matrix-org/synapse#4720

I would think that a lot of what could be done to clean up is outside the scope of what the synapse_ynh package is intended for, however. Just my two cents.

[MayeulC]

Actually matrix-media-repo seems to support quotas, so it would need to be wired up with yunohost's quota system.

t2bot/matrix-media-repo#100 -> t2bot/matrix-media-repo@eb625dd

[Gredin67]

is there a label like "looking for help"? This feature would be great!

[Gredin67]

@Thatoo is working on a nice workaround based on
https://gitlab.com/Sorunome/matrix-nextcloud-integration
and
https://github.com/gary-kim/riotchat/pull/369/files

He might build a yunohost package out of it, or it may make sense to integrate some things in the synapse_ynh package.
Wait and see..