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  • Backing up Open Media Vault

    Backing up OMV can be a challenge as it doesn’t have any backup functionality. While there are solutions like Clonezilla and rsync the simplest is “dd” or “dcfldd”. You should read the article Installing Open Media Vault which explains how I suggest you do it so you don’t have to backup a 250GB hard drive.… read more…

  • Access contents on a single disk from a Debian mirror array

    I am setting up an Open Media Vault, OMV, NAS box for my home storage requirements, detailed in the post Installing Open Media Vault. I don’t have the resources to setup a full RAID 5 array, this would require a box with space for 3 drives plus which I would actually need to purchase 3… read more…

    Access contents on a single disk from a Debian mirror array

  • Open Media Vault

    Having lost a drive recently I have decided to use take old HP SFF desktop and chuck in 4GB of RAM and run up an Open NAS box of some type. I did the usual hunting around reading reviews looking at specs and came to the same conclusion, FreeNAS was the best but was too… read more…

  • Installing Open Media Vault

    OMV doesn’t have a backup function which is a problem. Given it is relatively straight forward to setup OMV one option is to simply set it up again. I really don’t want to do that so the only other comprehensive option is to backup the system disk. The problem is that there isn’t any free,… read more…

    Installing Open Media Vault

  • Wipe a RAID disk

    If for some reason you have a disk which used to be in a software RAID and you need to add it back into OMV then OMV will still recognize it as a RAID disk, even if you have reformatted it. In my case I had a disk that was removed from the array for… read more…

  • Open Media Vault FAQs and tips

    Please don’t think this is an official OMV FAQ, this is just things I found out in my travels around OMV. What happens if I turn shutdown or lose power while rebuilding an array It just picks up where it left off. I tried this by pulling the power cord out and again by shutting… read more…

  • Create a Debian Live USB flash drive

    There are many sites that describe how to do this, but some techniques just didn’t work for me and many required you to do it from Linux which also doesn’t work for me. This is what worked for me on Windows 10. 1. Insert you key into your Windows PC 2. Though this may not… read more…

    Create a Debian Live USB flash drive

  • The Block NZ Villa Wars – a view from the outside

    The block started a couple of weeks ago and I have been itching to drive past and see how it has progressed. Now the 11th of October 2015 the houses are really starting to look like something from the outside. I must say I was a little nervous that we would go out to Sandringham… read more…

    The Block NZ Villa Wars – a view from the outside

  • Live editing of a war in JBoss

    When I am writing some JSP or web app or similar I am a real fan of being able to edit a file and the changes get picked up by the application server immediately and I can see my changes quickly. Tomcat has done this for ages but now I need to develop in JBoss… read more…

    Live editing of a war in JBoss

  • Kids Arts Festival – Corbans Estate 2015

    We went to the kids arts festival at Corbans estate in Henderson on the 16th of May 1015 and had a great day. There was lots of things to do and once you got into it lots of activities to try out from painting, to making things out of old junk and paper mache masks… read more…

    Kids Arts Festival – Corbans Estate 2015