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  • Hard disk SMART monitoring and alerts in OMV

    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 have a disk that might be failing. SMART is not always going to save you… read more…

    Hard disk SMART monitoring and alerts in OMV
  • 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…