Openmediavault on my Raspberry Pi 4 8gb running Raspbian

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dmesg would tell you this, conclusively.

Not true if the flashmemory plugin is used. I have a USB thumbdrive, that I've been using as a boot drive, that's over 4 years old. SD-cards may not last that long, but cloning them is a breeze. -> Here.

And then something goes wrong. There's no guarantee with any drive. Sooner or later, "it" happens.

I'm glad you finally disclosed this. I say it as well and the same advice is given in the project's guide for R-PI builds. The desktop version of R-PI OS allows for the installation of conflicting software up to and including packages that will uninstall OMV. Also, the order in which software is installed, using Internet guides, can create networking issues that may affect Dockers.

Since you have an 8GB R-PI, I can see using the 64bit version of Rapsberry PI OS-LITE That's fine. Other than that, you might consider going to the source of the unofficial guide you used for support.

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I have just wiped the SSD drive where i had the OS. Made a fresh install of Raspberry OS and installed OMV and OMV Extras. Eyes are bleeding at the moment but i will continue to configure everything tomorrow and see if this does the trick or not.

I am skeptical that it is a drive issue, although you never know. But i made a complete wipe of the drive.

I do think that i might have corrupted something at some point because i used to have loads of stuff on this RPI and i have transferred a lot of server stuff to a real server machine.

I will keep you all updated in how things progress. Thanks a lot for the quick responses.

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Build the R-PI according to the project's guide.

Also, you might consider a second boot drive for backup. With backup, you won't have to rebuild if something goes south.

I have had it up and running the whole day and it has not gone south yet anyway.

I added Docker and Portainer just an hour ago and i installed AdguardHome in docker just to have something running there. We will see what happens.

Well all my data is stored on a seperate drive so it wasn´t much of a hassle to get it up and going again.

One could make an image of the install when everything is up and running, save that on some safe location. That way you just need to burn that image and it will be restored.

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I wouldn't be overly confident yet. I'm not very familiar with SSD's in general (I do have one). However, the inconsistency of SMART data returns, when queried, would still be a concern to me.
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I do the above with dated image files AND have I a cloned thumbdrive ready for my main server, sitting on top of the case. That allows some rollback depth in backup and, with a backup boot device built and in hand, recovery can be done is as little as 3 minutes.

I'm going to give the timeshift package a closer look, this fall. For layered OS backup, that seems like the optimum approach.

Still working I am actually quite confident when i have gone through things that i might have messed up something when i removed nextcloud and moved that to another machine.

I do not really like the SD card approach since it is slow and they die so quick. Thumb drives are not very reliable either. SSD usually just work, but ofcourse everything can fail if the correct parameters are met. I have arranged all my SSD´s in a rack that cools them and so on.

There is however a lot of disc activity on the Raspberry Pi 4 with OMW i have noticed.

Timeshift looks interesting i must say.

But i am not that concerned about the Pi running OMW that is just one of many backups, i have multiple backups on different places so redunancy is there indeed. That is why i not that concered about if the SSD on the pi dies, but it seems to be working after the clean install of everything.