Power off most of the time

1st Official Post

    I'm a new OMV user and I am setting up my first install. This server will be a backup for my main server running OS X. I plan to power on the system once a week or so for weekly backups . The remainder of the time it will be off. This may be a stupid question but I am wondering if this is a problem for OMV since it is designed as a always on NAS software? Also would anyone recommend going right to V6 or is V5.x the way to go. Thanks !

  • cmartorelli

    Changed the title of the thread from “Power off” to “Power off most of the time”.
    • Official Post

    OMV6 is close to being released as stable, which OMV5 will be no longer maintained shortly thereafter. Many have migrated to 6 already. Powered off most of the time is not a particular problem.

    System Backup Typo alert: Under the Linux section the command should be sudo umount /dev/sda1 NOT sudo unmount /dev/sda1

    Backup Data Disk to Backup Disk on Same Machine: In a Scheduled Job:rsync -av --delete /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-f8814ed9-9a5c-4e1c-8830-426968c20ea3/ /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-e67439d5-00a3-4942-bd5f-b84ab86aa850/ Don't forget trailing slashes, and BE CAREFUL. (HT: Getting Started with OMV5)

    Equipment - Thinkserver TS140, NanoPi M4 (v.1), Odroid XU4 (Using DietPi): PiHole

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