How best clone the OMV system disk ?

The best way to backup the system disk is with Clonezilla. You burn an ISO and boot from it. It's pretty ez if you plugin an external drive before you boot. I don't have an N40L but I thought there was another way to choose a boot device remotely on an N40L. Why is no one booting from a Clonezilla ISO remotely. Is there something else you have to buy to plugin to the N40L to get this to work??? Aaron???

Why are more people not getting this card. Does that not allow you to choose boot device. I was under impression it was like kvm or ip. So you could even go into bios with it??????

http://www.newegg.com/Product/…aspx?Item=N82E16816401170

IP-based KVM allows even for remote BIOS configuration

$82.99 it seems people have issue using it with certain operating systems. But if you could get into bios and change boot device. For me this is perfect server and leave iso of Clonezilla in optical drive. Didn't you say there is way to mount small ssd or 2.5 " and still have optical drive???? How many SATA ports does n40l and n54l have?

Anyone that has used this remote access card please give us some feedback.

Yes, so why is no one trying this???

You can't beat logmein. When using OMV, On a windows machine I vnc thru an ssh tunnel and then on my omv I have the tcp forwarding checked in the web-gui to get forwarded to the correct ports. VNC is not ez to setup, which doesn't bother me. What pisses me off is you can't do it with one program. I have to use putty to ssh and tunnel. Then I'm using Real VNC Viewer. I wish someone had everything u need in 1 package. There is one guy who had a program on android. I think it's called Bvnc or something. Debian is way behind Fedora in VNC too. Way better packages in Fedora.

$300.00 server vs $80.00 ilo card. I've got the n54l - which is identical except for the processor. Also there are very few slots, many folks add in HDMI and dedicated raid - and now you have no slots open.

I'm not generally an HP fan, but the HPO ILO on the card is pretty good, but for me and my needs, not $80 good. I haven't used this exact card, but I'm quite familiar with HP ILO's and I've heard nothing bad about the ILO for the nXXl server's except for the cost. Right now I'm working on the wife to get another n54L in budget, on top of the UPS and first n54L I just bought - so I may have to wait on ILO for a bit.

FYI - I know of several builds keeping optical and sliding a 2.5 inch underneath in that top bay. There is a lot of space - I can take a pic if you want. With just a normal rail kit, I've been considering mounting a spare 2.5" I have in the space. There is also an external eSata port that I've seen people use although the cabling looks kinda squirrely when you route that back to an internal drive.

I'm thinking abuot these things because I have an older Fedora/atom machine I'd like to replace with a n54l. I would get the card. I buy all this with just the money I save from not buying a copy of windows server.... I feel the urge to go on a Balmer rant again....

Well even with only sata 3g and software raid, I can saturate my gig network on cifs for multiple clients while running torrents. My gig network is cat6e, done right. If you want to virtualbox/esxi it I would definitely get the n54l, but if your cpu needs are less - the n40l is identical except for processor, and probably available on deals - since the n54l came out. One other thing, if you need more than 8gb ram - it's not very straight forward. 8gb is max supported - many people have reported working 16GB ram, but I did not have the same luck with Kingston ECC memory in an 8gb stick.(I think the working posts I've seen were all using non-ecc memory)

I know UPS output is not a proper measure, but the n54L under load along with my 16 port switch consume about 40W.

Do you have use a modded bios to get all SATA ports working at 6Gb/s speeds on the n54l like the n40l? They should have that fixed by now.

There is no 6g speed available at all. The bios mod enables 3g speed on all ports. It also lets you make them hot swappable. And no HP has not made an official bios release since the n40l back in July of 2012 and the n54l ships with that same bios.

It feels like a waste of the fancy new WD reds I bought, but considering I'm using it as a dedicated NAS and I'm able to saturate a gig link - not sure I really care.

Other downsides - only two expansion slots and those are quite space constrained, and USB 2.0 only.

Folks,

Used Clonezilla Live (CZ) for the first time tonight. Burned it to a CD, and it works like a charm! For those who need a walkthru like me, I used http://clonezilla.org/clonezilla-live-doc.php and followed it. For me it worked!

The reason I used it I had OMV installed on a 16gig CF card - less than a week, with no problems. Though after reading the many posts of how OMV works flash memory to death in short order. I decided to take the advice and throw in an old barely used 40gig 3.5 WD400 I had laying around.

CZ took care of the partitioning, formatting, copying, everything. Now my OMV system is on a hard drive. It booted just fine and everything I have setup works. YEAH! Time for a Dew!

Other notes when CZ had copied the system drive to the 8gig USB stick for the backup, the resulting folder was only 770meg in size. The backup and restore took about ten minutes each. It took longer to get OMV offline, get the box on the table, remove and install the hardware.

Looks like I'll be backing up the OMV system drive with CZ weekly. For me it was that easy. And I come from a Windows background.

Thanks to those who suggested CZ. You are appreciated. I would mention names but I don't want to upset anyone by forgetting them.

Dave