Hi,
little background:
I decided to buy low power consuming PC and make it home NAS server.
Following advice of my friend I installed Ubuntu 20 LTS desktop and installed all needed things like ssh, smb and jollyfin.
I managed to set some -arr servers, but not all work well.
I also not happy that most stuff i must do via CLI - I'm just old windows user
I run into OMV in internet and I'm curious can I install OMV on top of Ubuntu or fresh install but keep HDD with data untouched? will it work after OS change?
Changing from Ubuntu to OMV - will data on HDD be safe?
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- OMV 5.x
- mareczek82
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- You can not install OMV in a graphical environment, you need to install OMV on a dedicated system.
- Use a new disk for the root filesystem. Plug your old disk as data disk after the first installation (so no data will get lost on accident).
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I decided to buy low power consuming PC
Just out of curiosity: what did you buy?
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Install OMV onto an USB stick and make it boot from there. It is a waste to use the 256 GB ssd only for the OS.
To be safe, unplug the drives while doing the install. Even if you decide to install on the ssd as boot drive, unplug the data disk, bit then you loose everything on the ssd (probably /home directories).
Btw: You should never go without a backup, so this does not count:
I have 2TB data on it, and I'm afraid to change OS, because i don't have backup yet.
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You can not install to the same USB stick you have the ISO on, but you have to have two.
Having the server boot from different devices is just a matter of the bios settings.
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