My OMV Build with Asrock J3160

Hello,
here a small description of my NAS-build:

I use OMV 3 on ASRock J3160-ITX http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/J3160-ITX/index.us.asp

• 2x 2GByte RAM
• 1 Boot -SSD 128 GB
  
  
  • 12 GB reserved for OVM
  • 4 GB Swap
  • Rest 100GB extra BTFS-Drive
• 2x 3 TByte Seagate HDDs Raid1 with BTFS
• NIC Intel PRO/1000PT (disable the onboard NIC) in GBit net

I use the SSD-Extra partition for my Dokuwiki and my music (Logitech media server) both on the SSD (without redundancy).

On this drive the data do not change so often, I save it with Rsnapshot once a day to my synology-clone. The remote connection to my OMV from the Synology-clone is made by a NFS share.

On the Raid1 I have

• My pictures
• Selfmade videos
• Documents
• Scans and so on
• SMB-Share of the family
• NFS-Shares for my Linux machines

As above I save it with Rsnapshot once a day.

Every day I make a offside copy (rsync) from my Synology to a Synology Diskstation of my rsnapshot-copy from day.0 .

The HDDs have a Spindown time from 20 mins. So I can hear musik and read in the dokuwiki without runnings the HDDs.

I have not extra fan in the case, I use fan from the power supply. And Extra fan uses about 1 - 1.5 Watt.

The power consumption is all up : 27-28 Watt,
when the 2 HDDs spindown the system uses :15-16 Watt ( 24/7 ) .

Franz

I started with my NAS experience with a Linux PC and smb; then I tried FreeNAS and OpenMediaVault, but I decided to buy two of them. One at home. One offside. I took ReadyNas RN102. It was easy to setup and to use. The remote connection is very easy because the IP-address is stored on the READYNAS-Server. ( This way I do not like so much ). I had some problems with one ReadyNAS; it looses its firmware a few times until it broke complete. In this time I found xpenology. I took an old PC; bring it up with synology 5.xx . For my offside location I bought a DS215j already running with DSM 5.x . Now I use both Synologys to make a backup in both directions, with GUI- functions include DynsDNS, Task Scheduler. Then the "people" from xpenology had problems with the update to DSM 6 . In spring this year I gave OVM a new chance. For everything I want to do OVM gives me a good solution.

• NFS - Server
• NFS - Client
• Rsnapshot
• Rsync

Now I changed my NAS-tasks too:

• higher speed 100MByte/s
  
  
  • on the discs
  • on the lan
• On my Windows PC: I bring the Photos on the NAS, so I need no extra backup from here ...
  
  
  • I can use it with other PC too.
• The same with the documents and so on ...

So I build a test system with a INTEL-Board D2500CC, tried everything I need ...
On the other side, I have my backup-system. I do not have easy access to my second synology DS ( it is about 100miles away ).
Now (in January) I want to try making rsync-backup (not the buildin Backup&Replication) to the external (real) Synology and Rsync-Backup to my local system (new OVM-test-system ). I need a new DynDNS access for my homeIP, now it is made by synology. When I have everything under control I will replace xpenology on the Asrock B75M-DGS with a Intel G1620 by OVM ...

The pictures shows my test system. In the wooden board is a whole for the airflow through the power supply.

Franz