If you want to avoid creating them again, you can edit the services and point to a folder on another disk, or an empty folder.
Under Storage > Shared Folders I see my shares on the old HDD that I would like to point to folders on my new HDD. I expect that it's the UUID that needs to be changed, but the Edit tool doesn't seem to allow that. Is there another way that I am not seeing? My wife correctly says that I suffer from Male Pattern Blindness.
Hi, Chente
Right now I am in the process of copying the content of my mounted but temporary NAS HDD to my also-mounted target permanent HDD. A lot of data and rsynch is chugging along.
I have one question: Is it accurate that in order to unmount a NAS drive, one must first shut down the associated services, like FTP, samba and such before the unmount button becomes available? I think that's exactly what you said but I want to double-check. Thank you!
Well, under Storage > File Systems and highlight the NAS drive I see "Create | Mount," "Edit," "Resize," "Quota," and a gray-out square that has no tool-tip. I'm guessing that's the unmount button, mimicing the "stop" button in a music player.
This Windows 10 machine has a drive mapped to that NAS HDD, so I'll start by unmapping it and removing any other entries here that point to it.
Thank you! This is a fun little project.
Cool. What I'm not finding in the webgui is a graceful way to disconnect/unmount/forget the existing NAS drive. A pointer would be appreciated.
And many thanks for the help.
Excellent questions, I should have put this basic info into my OP.
1. Raspberry Pi.
2. The existing NAS disk is a old 2TB 2.5" WD "My Passport" portable that has traveled in my luggage for years, while the target NAS disk is a new 2TB 3.5" WD Red Plus.
3. The reason that I initially set up OMV with this old HDD is because I wanted to check out OMV and see if I like it. I do!
I keep a nightly backup of the NAS HDD (sdb1 mounted under /srv) onto a second HDD (sda1 mounted under /media). So all my data are on hand, so I suppose I could just disconnect the existing NAS HDD and plug in the new, then cp all the data from the backup drive to the new NAS drive. But there may be a better way.
Side information of no particular use: We have a Synology NAS in our home in Oregon. We just bought a house in Mexico to winter in. That's where we are now, and I want to set up a less-expensive NAS here and OMV+RPi seems to be a nifty solution. I just want newer HDDs.
Thank you for your help!
Of course! Saturation is good, no? The pancakes were saturated with syrup?
Okay, no Raid 0. I'm ashamed I even mentioned it. Silly me.
So -- a NAS drive and a backup drive. More better?
First Step: I need to migrate my data from the present 2.5" NAS HDD to one of my new WD Red HDDs to make that my new NAS drive.
Then the 2.5" drive becomes redundant and I pull it out of NAS service.
What might be the best way of going about this?
Okay -- I'll keep an eye on it. This is just a temporary setup, I'll be switching to a couple of decent drives once I have a good idea how to go about it per my inquiry at Re-doing my drives setup, what's my best approach?
Thank you!
I ain-t a-gonna either. I'll be dumping this Windows laptop anyway and going to Linux. This is just a temporary setup. Thanks for mentioning the Indexing thing.
It's not, do you map shares on OMV as drive letters to your windows machine
I do. So maybe some kind of pesky Indexing going on?
This morning I went to check my backup HDD which is mounted to /media/myfolder and it was empty. I ssh'd to the OMV host computer and checked /dev/sda1 (its former path) and it was empty, too. Hmm, though I, is there a problem with the drive? I went to get a cup of coffee and stared at the screen and considered plugging the drive into another computer to check. I went to the OMV Dashboard and it reported the drive as "Good." So I ran fdisk -l and suddenly the drive was there! and it was there under /media/myfolder and /dev/sda1 .
I'm puzzled by this behavior. Is there some kind of housekeeping that OMV does that unmounts then re-mounts external USB drives?
Thank you.
Hi,
I'm going to be upgrading my OMV HDDs setup and I'm looking for suggestions on the best way to go about it.
What I have:
HDD1 (old) has my data on it and it is mounted under /srv as a NAS drive.
HDD2 (also an old one) is mounted under /media and is my backup drive.
What I want to do:
I have two brand new WD Red Plus drives (call them HDD3 and HDD4) and I'm thinking I want to set them up as a RAID 0 array, and keep HDD2 as backup.
So, how do I get there from here? I could set up HDD3 as a second NAS drive and let OMV sync the data to it from HDD1 to it, then maybe pull HDD1, plug in HDD4 and tell OMV to make HDD3 and HDD4 a RAID 0 array (and that HDD3 is the "source" drive somehow, IOW, the empty HDD4 is not the data source to sync from. Not sure how that works.
Does this make sense? There may be a how-to that covers all that.
Thank you!
This might not be an actual problem, but it is a bit of a puzzle.
On this Windows 10 machine which has the OMV webGUI open on it, I see high and continuous network usage by "System" (PID 4) in Resource Monitor along the lines of 40kB/sec
Hi, I had a power outage last night in the wee hours and I received this alert email after the RPi3B+ rebooted. I don't know how to interpret it.
The system monitoring needs your attention.
Host: \MyFileServer
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:17:58
Service: proftpd
Event: Does not exist
Description: process is not running
This triggered the monitoring system to: restart
Near as I can tell by Googling "proftpd" is that it is a FTP server. I don't have ftp enabled on this setup. Ignore?
Followup Question: Is there a way to have OMV mail a "System Started" email in the case of a power outage/restart? Maybe the above alert could be interpreted that way. It does have the word "restart" in it!
Thank you!
Thanks.
Does OMV log file accesses/modifications/creations/deletions (etc.) anywhere?
Thank you!
Cool.
I also seem* to have cracked that nut by following this guide: https://www.imore.com/how-use-…mac-windows-shared-folder
* "Seem" in the sense that I may have to wait a bit to see if the Mac throws off an error.
OMV: 6.0.5-1
macOS Big Sur Version 11.6
Hi, I've got OMV set up and playing really nice with this Windows machine via SMB (thanks to some help here).
My next step is to get my wife's Mac's Time Machine and OMV to play nice with each other. But there seem to be a lot of posts about unresolved difficulties making this happen.
I read in the OMV documentation at https://openmediavault.readthe…l?highlight=machine#samba that Time Machine support is not available. That doc appears to be about OMV 5, and I'm running OMV 6. Has anything changed in OMV 6 that allows for Time Machine?
Thank you!
Well done, but think, if you need rw for everone
It's just my wife and me. I think we're pretty good.
I didn't know about the "X" chmod feature. Pretty cool.
From the drive's root I just did
sudo find . -type f -exec chmod 666 {} +
gave me -rw-rw-rw- for all the files, left the directories alone.
