My OMV server failed and would not start so I had to move the data disks, mirrored and system disk to a new PC. This is some lessons learned. Keep it off the LAN For the exercise of moving the … Continue reading
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I had setup a mirrored RAID in OMV and then the PC hardware, not the disks I should emphasize, failed and I needed to move the system disk and two data disks to other hardware. Because I decided to test … Continue reading
Out of the box with the RAID you are likely to find an email everyday with the subject similar to: SparesMissing event on /dev/md/Mirror:nas2 [nas2.cantabrian] This is a somewhat know error, ssh to the box and look for: /etc/mdadm/mdadm.conf You … Continue reading
MythTV is the best Open Source media recording application MythTV Wiki This article follows the path I traveled when setting up a new MythTV server running on CentOS 7. The setup I followed in setting up the host is detailed … Continue reading
Fortunately Open Media Vault, OMV, emails warnings when disks are failing. This is also true for the system disk. I have been getting warnings my old system disk is failing and this is what I did to fix it. First … Continue reading
All modern hard drives come with SMART, Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology, which in essence allows you to monitor the status of your disks and if they have any errors. This will often alert you to dangerous situations where you … Continue reading
I have a OMV box with two disks in RAID 1, mirroring, with one disk failing. This post describes the process. Write down, on paper, the serial number of the failing disk. If you are like me all your disks … Continue reading
I need to run some scripts every night to move some files around in OMV. I want something that simple and easy to maintain and more or less stock standard. There are probably many variations on how this could be … Continue reading
I had a working Open Media Vault system with notifications going out and then it stopped. OMV runs on Debian. In the log I started seeing: The actual error was: postfix/error[1443]: 1D96741676: to=<joe.blogs@domain.com>, relay=none, delay=175894, delays=175853/41/0/0.24, dsn=4.4.3, status=deferred (delivery temporarily … Continue reading
I have been trying to add a single mirrored disk to Open Media Vault and been getting: In my case the new disk was created using a Debian live USB disk. I think this was the problem. So I booted … Continue reading