Azuracast and storage volume

Heya,

Just came across this answer and decided to write some general guidelines for anyone who comes across this in the future despite the old question.

To change the storage location of your radio station’s data in an AzuraCast installation, follow the steps below:

1. Attach the 300GB volume to your droplet. If you haven’t done this yet, please follow the guide here: How to Automatically Mount DigitalOcean Volumes.

2. Assuming your volume is already mounted (for example, at /mnt/volume-nyc1-123), SSH into your droplet using a terminal.

3. Create a new directory for your AzuraCast data on the volume with:

   sudo mkdir /mnt/volume-nyc1-123/azuracast_data
   
   

4. Stop the AzuraCast Docker containers by running:

   cd /var/azuracast && sudo docker-compose down
   
   

5. Copy the existing AzuraCast data to the new directory:

   sudo cp -r /var/azuracast/stations /mnt/volume-nyc1-123/azuracast_data/
   
   

6. Update the “AZURACAST_STATIONS_DIR” environment variable in /var/azuracast/docker-compose.yml to point to the new directory. Here’s an example:

   environment:
   - AZURACAST_DB_HOST=db
   - AZURACAST_DB_PORT=3306
   - AZURACAST_DB_NAME=azuracast
   - AZURACAST_DB_USERNAME=azuracast
   - AZURACAST_DB_PASSWORD=****
   - AZURACAST_STATIONS_DIR=/mnt/volume-nyc1-123/azuracast_data/stations
   - AZURACAST_BACKUP_DIR=/mnt/volume-nyc1-123/azuracast_data/
   
   

7. Restart the AzuraCast Docker containers by running:

   cd /var/azuracast && sudo docker-compose up -d
   
   

Now, your AzuraCast data should be stored on the volume instead of the default server storage. For more information, check out the AzuraCast documentation about external storage.

Hope that this helps!