Posts by mneese

That addresses my concern about OMV being affected by my mountpoint creation... Thank you!
This can be posted as resolved...

This is driving me nuts. I have used my laptop win 11 to chkdsk my USB backup drive and things are fine. But i want to run the more intensive utilities provided by linux.
The problem is i cannot mount the drive when the USB backup plugin is enabled, because it unmounts the drive. When disabling the USB bakup plugin, i can see the drive under disks, but unmounted.

Looking through wetty, it shows unmounted...

How do i mount the drive without the plugin, run the utilities, unmount and return to normal operations.

When checking this issue using copilot, they suggest finding the uuid, creating a generic mountpoint, mount the drive, run the checks on the drive, then unmounting...
Is this the best way? By using wetty as root user, creating a new mountpoint...etc... am i mixing up things for OMV?

Will OMV operate normally with the USB plugin, assuming i have not touched the config in the USB Bkup plugin?

New backup drive, fresh backup, NO PROBLEMS this time! Thanks for your advice...

This is solved...

Just remembered what may have messed up the backup... I logged in to check on things and ignored the notification that a process was in the background, went to the usb plugin interface and "manually" triggered the backup for the second shared folder. I did this because my email notification showed only the first shared folder as being done. So, i thought I need to trigger the second shared folder... when in reality the email had not been sent because it was not finished...

Sorry for all this confusion... the new backup drive seems to be working fine for the first shared folder. I will verify and report back...

I am replacing the backup disk and starting over. Thank you! Keep this open and I will report back...

I recently had a failure on a OMV 6 box caused by a power outage, then the motherboard battery failed, then the server would not boot. I replaced the OS drive, upgraded to OMV 7 and the raid five was in great shape. After working flawlessly for about two weeks, i was ready to put it back in the room with my other boxes. I decided to do a USB plugin backup before moving it. It was extremely slow and apparently backing up every file, even though the backup drive had maybe 90% of the files already there.

After about ten hours the backup stopped with this log message:

rsync: [sender] write error: Broken pipe (32).

I unmounted the backup drive, ran chkdsk /f /r on from my laptop and found ZERO errors. But, the 3tb drive was completely full!
The server showed 1.8 TB content, and the backup drive is 3 TB. Looking further i found that the backup had created directories that were EMPTY...

Any ideas how this might have happened?
Is this a trusted backup system?

OMV 6 when the outage happened, new install with OMV 7...

Follow up... works fine, H710 recognized everything and configuration was pretty simple. Fear of losing data was the biggest challenge and that did not happen.

Issues solved...

I fail—I learn. Thanks for your insights!

It is raid five and this is not a software raid but rather a Dell server with H710 card. The card reads the array and it is listed as "optimal"

So, i have been advised to do a fresh install with the drives disconnected, then connect drives and the H710 should easily pickup the raid array when booted.

Anybody want to chime in with opinions or advice, please comment...

Thank you. I have got the machine running, bios seems to be intact, registering on the network with old ip... however when it gets to the hard drive boot, it fails and says no bootable drive, although it sees the drive in the boot sequence, so, is there some way to work on this drive or see what's there.

Or, is a re-install in order? If I re-install, is the array going to be retained (as configured) and recognized, or start over with reinstalling back ups. Drive and files have backups, but i don't have a OS backup unless it is auto backed up...

If reinstall, how to do that?

Power outage, motherboard battery failed, server not on network.

I can't discover the server on my network.

What should i do to get this back?

Dell T420 server...

My USB backup plugin works great for backups. However, when it is disconnected, the plugin executes and looks for the missing drive every 6 or so minutes. It is my understanding that this triggers the raid drives to start up, even though they are set to spindown when not accessed.

Also, the error logs are constantly written.

This can't be right! How to stop the unnecessary execution of the plugin?

RESOLVED.... I tested without "quiet" selected in the USB Backup config and the email works fine...

Running an old server Dell T420 with Dell H710 raid card. OMV 6 with (7) 1TB SAS drives. The drives are enterprise quality but old. With the raid card, i cannot see any smart data through OMV.

Dell offers "percli" for CLI useage. Has anyone used this and are there specifics that I should be wary of?

Hi, after updating to 6.9.7-2 version today, I am getting these errors when viewing "processes"...

Failed to execute command 'export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin; export LANG=C.UTF-8; export LANGUAGE=; top --batch --iterations=1 --width=512 2>&1' with exit code '1': top: inappropriate '-batch'
Usage:
top -hv | -bcEeHiOSs1 -d secs -n max -u|U user -p pid(s) -o field -w [cols]


OMV\ExecException: Failed to execute command 'export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin; export LANG=C.UTF-8; export LANGUAGE=; top --batch --iterations=1 --width=512 2>&1' with exit code '1': top: inappropriate '-batch'
Usage:
top -hv | -bcEeHiOSs1 -d secs -n max -u|U user -p pid(s) -o field -w [cols] in /usr/share/php/openmediavault/system/process.inc:242
Stack trace:
#0 /usr/share/openmediavault/engined/rpc/system.inc(84): OMV\System\Process->execute(Array)
#1 [internal function]: Engined\Rpc\System->getTopInfo(NULL, Array)
#2 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc/serviceabstract.inc(123): call_user_func_array(Array, Array)
#3 /usr/share/php/openmediavault/rpc/rpc.inc(86): OMV\Rpc\ServiceAbstract->callMethod('getTopInfo', NULL, Array)
#4 /usr/sbin/omv-engined(537): OMV\Rpc\Rpc::call('System', 'getTopInfo', NULL, Array, 1)
#5 {main}

I am not savvy enough to understand this... Is this a game changer? Does my server survive?

Reboot?

Failed to execute command 'export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin; export LANG=C.UTF-8; export LANGUAGE=; top --batch --iterations=1 --width=512 2>&1' with exit code '1': top: inappropriate '-batch' Usage: top -hv | -bcEeHiOSs1 -d secs -n max -u|U user -p pid(s) -o field -w [cols]

Failed to execute command 'export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin; export LANG=C.UTF-8; export LANGUAGE=; top --batch --iterations=1 --width=512 2>&1' with exit code '1': top: inappropriate '-batch' Usage: top -hv | -bcEeHiOSs1 -d secs -n max -u|U user -p pid(s) -o field -w [cols]

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What do you expect to receive in that email?

Thanks for your interest and information... I will get back to report on disabling the "quiet" option. In the meantime...

I am migrating from OMV 4 to OMV 6 with several servers. This is my testing system to make sure I have everything configured properly before I move everything. So, in this particular case, backups are important and the emails I get from OMV 4 display a list that verifies what directories are queried and the file by file list of differential files added to the backup drive.

I'm not getting that verification list, even though the backups are seemingly perfect. I don't care to be on my GUI when I connect the backup drive, and I don't know if this has effected the email send... If this does affect the send, why is that not explained in the USB Backup plugin setup?

I may be misunderstanding the basics of this plugin service... here is my understanding of the plugin:

The USB Backup itself is not scheduled, it is random. I initiate the USB Backup by physically connecting the backup drive via the USB port. I cannot "mount" the file system through my GUI interface after the plugin unmounts the drive... therefore leaving the backup drive connected and mounting through the GUI to initiate the backup is not an option in my current configuration. Correct me if this a incorrect configuration... Also, the purpose would be to allow the backup drive to be stored elsewhere for disaster protection...

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For the email to be sent it has to be a scheduled job

How to schedule the email send? Is that done through "scheduled tasks" or "notifications/events"?

Under notifications/events, I have selected:

1. File Systems
2. Smart
3. Software updates

I have unselected:

1. CPU usage
2. Load average
3. Memory usage
4. Process monitoring
5. Software Raid

If this done under "scheduled tasks", I am not knowledgeable of the "command" that would be appropriate for this function...

Hi, I have configured my USB Backup Plugin to send emails to admin, however this is not happening upon backups. Email system and notifications work on other alerts, so the email system itself seems to be working.

The backups themselves work!

In the USB Backup configuration I have "send email" checked... And just below that I also have "quiet" checked.

Could the "quiet" parameter affect the email sends? Or, is there another parameter I need to address?

Thank you...

Thanks, good advice... I think i overreacted!