Hello, Been using OMV for a couple years now and just decided to upgrade from 6 to 7. There were problems with the upgrade process which resulted in me having to reinstall OMV. NOW I cant mount my old drives and recover the data from it.
On the GUI I see the drives listed under "Storage" -> "Disks" but I cannot mount them under "File Systems".
On the CLI I see my drives listed with their "/srv/" mount points and I can browse the directory structure. I did make backups via OMV-Extras and I can browse it. How can I restore the configuration?
Upgraded to version 7 (there were problems) now I cant mount older drives
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- OMV 7.x
- Upgrade 6.x -> 7.x
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ryecoaaron
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So this is a fresh install of OMV7, correct?
What did you do after the installation? Did you first try to mount the drives from the GUI of OMV? Or did you edit/copy any system files like fstab or config.xml?
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Not a fresh install, I had version 6 running for a couple of years now. I think what messed me up was having Nvidia drivers installed. I was getting numerous salt related errors (no sls files in /srv/salt/omv/stage and other errors.
Post installation, I could see the drives listed in Storage, Disks. But they were not mountable unless I reformatted them. This is through the GUI. On the CLI the drives were present in FSTAB and I could browse to them, modify the FS (I did a touch on a file just to see if I could write).
I tried running omv-firstaid, when I checked RRD Database it came back with numerous future timestamp entries. I did NOT clear those. not sure if that is a destructive process or not.
Also, this is the second server I was upgrading. I have another OMV server (without nvidia) that upgraded without a problem.
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ok, so this morning after running this last night:
/usr/sbin/omv-confdbadm populate
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I lost network connectivity and had to run omv-firstaid to get the network back. TODAY I am able to see the filesystems on the drives. But no shares are being populated. working on that now and puling down all the logs I can. -
Ok, so I was able to recreate the volumes by doing this:
lsblk -o NAME,MOUNTPOINT,LABEL
to get my mountpoints mappingthen
ls /srv/dev-disk-by-uuid-*/that generated a directory structure per mountpoint.
I recreated the shares via samba/cifs and I can browse the data on the drives.
I think at this point I should just reinstall from scratch and recreate things. I do have a second OMV server (that upgraded just fine before this one). Also, I have all the logs from this if you want them. See just what I screwed up. LOL -
I would do a fresh install to have the system in a clean state.
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Yeah that's what I'm thinking too. Luckily I had setup rsync jobs between the two OMV servers so all my data is being sync'd just for something like this.

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A reinstall of Debian and OMV will not influence your data drives (unless you install on the wrong drive). To be sure you can disconnect the drives during installation and attach them again for configuration.
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Yeah, I'm just paranoid and making sure all my copies are good before I kick it off. Thanks for the quick responses
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omv-regen might help in this case. If you can back up your current system, you can regenerate a clean system with the same OMV settings.
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