I had a really strange problem, I was writing a tiny Python script to learn about Python and it was writing to /var/tmp. Only problem was the file never turned up. This script was run from within Apache 2 on … Continue reading
Category Archives: Linux
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
This is just a short post describing how you can USB boot from a Debian Live USB key and from this enable SSH access to the box. I do this often and it can be quite handy. First create the … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading