Tony

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  • Create a single mirror disk for a RAID1 array

    I have a problem, I have a 3TB drive which has all my data on it but I need to move to a new RAID solution using Open Media Vault, OMV. I want to set up a mirrored, RAID1, 3TB array so will need two 3TB drives. I plan to use my current 3TB drive… read more…

  • Setting up notifications for Open Media Vault

    My reason for setting up a NAS server was to have a simple and reliable storage mechanism on my network. Choosing a NAS server and setting up a mirrored drive gives me this, but it loses an awful of its appeal if a drive fails and I don’t know about it. If notifications don’t work… read more…

  • Setting up a Windows shared drive

    This post is about setting up a Windows share for OMV. This should be a straight forward exercise but there are a few gotchas that mean it doesn’t always work the first time. This post describes the process pretty much from the start because as with other things if you don’t do things correctly right… read more…

  • 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