Issues with Pushing/Pulling Data from Local Remote

Questions
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Hi all,

Our team has access to a server with 8 terabytes of storage available on a mounted drive. We connect to this server via SSH to download data and run our machine learning workflows.

I’m currently setting up DVC to use a specific directory on the server (e.g., /mnt/raid/datasets) as a remote storage location. The idea is to treat this directory like a local DVC remote, allowing us to push and pull data using DVC, and use Git alongside it to track dataset changes.

Here’s the issue I’m running into:

  • I set up a local DVC remote pointing to /mnt/raid/datasets
  • I create a new data file, then run dvc add and commit the generated .dvc file with Git
  • However, when I run dvc push, the data does not appear in the remote directory
  • Similarly, dvc pull does not bring data into my working directory from the remote

Am I misunderstanding how local DVC remotes are supposed to work? Or is there something I might be missing in the configuration or usage?

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No, you understanding is correct. Do you see any files / directories at all in the /mnt/raid/datasets?

Could you run a few commands and share their output: dvc version, dvc remote list, dvc config -l? Also do dvc push -v to see verbose output.