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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
  • Replacing faulty drive in OMV

    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 may well be the same brand/model, so serial number is important. Removing the failing disk… read more…

    Replacing faulty drive 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