Is there a step by step guide to
Backup the OMV drive (mines sata), like a usb to clone to another drive
Its seems the addons should all work from 6-7?
Just want it so if anything doesnt work, its a case of revert back quickly
Backup the OS
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I moved this to a new thread since it wasn't relevant to kvm backup.
Is there a step by step guide to
Backup the OMV drive (mines sata), like a usb to clone to another driveThere are many different ways to do this. The best is to use clonezilla. You could also use the backup plugin or omv-regen.
Reverting quickly is not as easy. I would recommend testing in a VM with snapshots if you want to test.
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So I tried clonezilla to create image of disk, which completed ok, but then when it verify`s the image i get this
anyways I extracted the gzip to get the images then converted the imagaes to qcow2, then mounted them in a VM but this wouldnt boot -
Hi,
I would go this way:
- make a image of the *complete* hdd, not partition!
- create a VM with the same disksize as the one where you created a backup
- start the VM with a clonezilla iso
- do a restore from the image to the VM disk
From my perspective the VM should boot the OMV
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So i got it to restore the image to all partitions but get this error after reboot
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So i got it to restore the image to all partitions but get this error after reboot
It's not an error, it's just the bios shell.
Run
exit
to enter the bios menu and configure it.
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Is there a step by step guide to
Backup the OMV drive (mines sata), like a usb to clone to another driveIts seems the addons should all work from 6-7?
Just want it so if anything doesnt work, its a case of revert back quicklyIf you're willing to boot from a thumbdrive, OS backup can be dirt simple. A thumbdrive is easy to clone and the clone is easy to test, before you'll need it. Restoration is a matter of minutes.
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apt remove gdm3 sddm lxdm xdm lightdm slim wdm
dpkg -l | grep -Ew "gdm3|sddm|lxdm|xdm|lightdm|slim|wdm"
purged what was left
and OMV7 is installingPlease note that the Software RAID management has x
x been removed from the core system. Please install x
x the openmediavault-md plugin if necessary.
Once the MD is added will the drives continue to work with all data and shares on them?
OMV7 boots then says apply changes, but get this error, I know theres no drives on the VM so is that why?The following modules will be updated:
- apt
- compose
- nfs
- nginx
- phpfpm
- samba
- smartmontools
- ssh
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Display More------------ Succeeded: 8 (changed=1) Failed: 1 ------------ Total states run: 9 Total run time: 91.774 s [ERROR ] Command '/bin/systemd-run' failed with return code: 1 [ERROR ] stderr: Running scope as unit: run-r59ae4325070549f79b6232d449173a57.scope A dependency job for nfs-server.service failed. See 'journalctl -xe' for details. [ERROR ] retcode: 1 [ERROR ] A dependency job for nfs-server.service failed. See 'journalctl -xe' for details. in /usr/share/php/openmediavault/system/process.inc:247 Stack trace: #0 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/engine/module/serviceabstract.inc(62): OMV\System\Process->execute() #1 /usr/share/openmediavault/engined/rpc/config.inc(186): OMV\Engine\Module\ServiceAbstract->deploy() #2 [internal function]: Engined\Rpc\Config->applyChanges() #3 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc/serviceabstract.inc(122): call_user_func_array() #4 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc/serviceabstract.inc(149): OMV\Rpc\ServiceAbstract->callMethod() #5 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc/serviceabstract.inc(622): OMV\Rpc\ServiceAbstract->OMV\Rpc\{closure}() #6 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc/serviceabstract.inc(146): OMV\Rpc\ServiceAbstract->execBgProc() #7 /usr/share/openmediavault/engined/rpc/config.inc(207): OMV\Rpc\ServiceAbstract->callMethodBg() #8 [internal function]: Engined\Rpc\Config->applyChangesBg() #9 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc/serviceabstract.inc(122): call_user_func_array() #10 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc/rpc.inc(86): OMV\Rpc\ServiceAbstract->callMethod() #11 /usr/sbin/omv-engined(535): OMV\Rpc\Rpc::call() #12 {main}ID: start_nfs_server_service
Function: service.running
Name: nfs-server
Result: False
Comment: A dependency job for nfs-server.service failed. See 'journalctl -xe' for details.
Started: 21:43:38.716739
Duration: 90251.566 ms
Changes:
So thats the only 2 errors
If you're willing to boot from a thumbdrive, OS backup can be dirt simple. A thumbdrive is easy to clone and the clone is easy to test, before you'll need it. Restoration is a matter of minutes.
-> OS Backup
Want to avoid usb sticks for booting, dont mind them for installing but just feel a sata ssd, is better,
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Want to avoid usb sticks for booting, dont mind them for installing but just feel a sata ssd, is better,
I'll take two Thumbdrives (a working drive and a backup) over one high end SSD any day of the week. With the flashmemory plugin, thumbdrives last a good while. I've had a good quality thumbdrive last approximately 5 years, in an OMV server, through two versions of OMV. (I will qualify that and say that I don't have a lot of server add-on's, running from the boot drive, which reduces solid state media wear.)
Note that backup is only useful if it's easy to create AND easy to restore. When a server is down, that's not the best time to deal with a complicated restoration process. This is especially true when an upgrade takes out your server. Shutdown, pop in the backup, reboot and you're up again.
You might be surprised at how many boot from a thumbdrive.
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OMV7 boots then says apply changes, but get this error, I know theres no drives on the VM so is that why?
Yes
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should it have all these duplicates
Yes, but if you want to upgrade from CLI use omv-upgrade
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