Setup

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I finally gave up trying to install OMV on a dell server and thin client. I just bought an old dell optiplex 990, and install worked first time. Wish I had done this months ago!

Next step is working out what I want to do.

I would like to do the following;

* Have all my music on the system and be available to stream to an iPhone, laptop, or speaker (around the house or anywhere in the world)

* Have photos, documents, files saved on the system, and available anywhere around the world (also on iphone or laptops)

* Be able to backup home computers/laptops regularly

* Backup all the files mentioned above in case of drive failure

Can someone much more knowledgeable than me please tell me how this should be setup? Everything with raid 5, and then something else to backup to separate drives? If I use separate drives for all the backups, should that be connected to a separate computer?

Please advise. Be specific as I am pretty new to all this and need guidance.

Peter

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1 and 2 are easily handled with docker apps, you would then want to get you a cheap (or free) domain and reverse proxy those services through said domain. There are multiple threads on this on the forum. A domain, can be either super cheap (mine runs me about $12/yr) or you can get a free one at duckdns... the end result will be the same.

1. Navidrome... Very easy to set up

2. Nextcloud. You'll have to set up external storage for files that aren't in the nextcloud database, but that shouldn't be a problem. Multiple apps are available for it (NC Office, Photo apps, etc.) that should handle all this.

(A thread dedicated to setting up Nextcloud through duckdns with swag.. Post #4 would be the "guide")

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Nextcloud Bad Gateway

I setup Nextcloud using the docker compose file from this tutorial: https://youtu.be/aemqzgNbMPg And I followed the steps from Techno Dad Life here: https://youtu.be/4HPXGKfFibc Both tutorials are very similar. I've tried to setup Nextcloud twice now and both times, upon completing the tutorial I get "502 Bad Gateway" when I attempt to go to my DuckDNS url. I've searched around for other solutions but I haven't found one yet. Thanks in advance for any help.

seekr

Jan 28th 2021

Once you have NC working, routing Navidrome through it is a snap.

3. I'm not a Windows user, but I don't really backup my laptops. ALL of our data (music, photos, etc.) are on the server.. so.. I mean I could lose this machine right now.. and other than the inconvenience of replacing it and then reinstalling and setting up my Linux OS of choice.. I wouldn't lose a thing.

4. I hate RAID... it just seems to cause more problems than it's worth.

I have a 4 data drive system (OS is on a flash drive)... Basically Disks 1-4. All are the same size. I have simple Rsync jobs that back up Disk 1 to Disk 3, and Disk 2 to Disk 4... they run once a day, and I don't worry about it.

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Be able to backup home computers/laptops regularly

I use UrBackup for this. Runs as client on Windows and in Docker on OMV.

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Backup all the files mentioned above in case of drive failure

Read about backup e.g. by following the link in my signature.

Then you can use these methods

rsync

rsnapshot

borgbackup

There are plugins available for these. The methods are listed from simple to complex with increasing functionality.

For backup to cloud storage you can use Duplicati in docker.

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Thanks for the response. At first, this looks really easy, but I'm thinking that this actually looks above my ability. I was hoping for an easy way to do this, and not have to deal with code. Just looking at the navidrome link makes my head hurt!

Surely there is an easy system for me to add my music onto a computer and be able to access it via an app on my phone?

What looks difficult to you? I guess I'm not understanding what is difficult, as Navidrome literally takes 10sec to install

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From the start where it says "Create a docker-compose.yml file with the following content".

I have no idea what that even means...

maybe this will help you

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[How to] Docker in OMV

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THIS GUIDE IS NOW ON THE OMV-EXTRAS WIKI.
https://wiki.omv-extras.org/doku.php?id=omv6:docker_in_omv
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chente

Oct 16th 2021

There quite a few [how-tos] in the Guides section related to Dockers by chente and macom that are very helpful. This one especially is good, but take a look at several to get a general idea how docker works.

He's good now..lol.

He was TOTALLY lost. We haven't done NC yet, but.. he's got a few containers running and a basic understanding of how stacks work, rsync is scheduled and working, etc.

Good deal.