Posts by apveening

Quote from Carnajo

Hi, sorry for piggybacking on to this thread but I came looking for a way to do just this, clone my installation drive onto a USB drive before i do a wipe and clean install but was worried that I might need to recover. Anyway... I'm a complete noob who setup OMV using some guides many years ago. Could you share how I can do a clone of my OS drive onto a USB. I've read about clonezilla and also something about a backup plugin but both assumed I create a folder on one of my data drives.

Any help would be appreciated!

My script also requires a folder on one of your data drives as a target for the backup/clone. And you will have to mount it as well. After that, a cronjob for a nightly backup is quite easy. My current script (as you can see, there are still some old changes visible).

#!/bin/bash
#
# Automate Raspberry Pi Backups
#
# Usage: system_backup.sh {path} {days of retention}
#
# Below you can set the default values if no command line args are sent.
# The script will name the backup files {$HOSTNAME}.{YYYYmmdd}.img
# When the script deletes backups older then the specified retention
# it will only delete files with it's own $HOSTNAME.
#


# Declare vars and set standard values
backup_path=/mnt/backup
retention_days=3
block_size=4M
ImageName=$(date +%Y%m%d_%H).$HOSTNAME.img
DspName=000_$HOSTNAME


# Check that we are root!
if [[ ! $(whoami) =~ "root" ]]; then
echo ""
echo "**********************************"
echo "*** This needs to run as root! ***"
echo "**********************************"
echo ""
exit
fi


# Check to see if we got command line args
if [ ! -z $1 ]; then
backup_path=$1
fi


if [ ! -z $2 ]; then
retention_days=$2
fi


# Create trigger to force file system consistency check if image is restored
touch /boot/forcefsck
# Create file showing the name so SD cards are identifiable
echo $(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H) > /boot/$DspName
# Now flush the buffers so the files are included in the backup!
echo $(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S) Start Flush > $backup_path/$DspName
sync; echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
# And it is nice to have a log of the actions.
echo $(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S) End Flush, Start Backup >> $backup_path/$DspName


# Perform backup
# dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=$backup_path/$HOSTNAME.$(date +%Y%m%d).img bs=4M
# dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=$block_size | gzip > $backup_path/$HOSTNAME.$(date +%Y%m%d_%H).img.zip
dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 of=$backup_path/$ImageName bs=$block_size
echo $(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S) End Backup, Start Zip >> $backup_path/$DspName
gzip -c $backup_path/$ImageName > $backup_path/$ImageName.zip
echo $(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S) End Zip, Start Clean Up >> $backup_path/$DspName
rm $backup_path/$ImageName


# Remove fsck trigger
rm /boot/forcefsck


# Delete old backups
# find $backup_path/$HOSTNAME.*.img.zip -mtime +$retention_days -type f -delete
find $backup_path/*.$HOSTNAME.img.zip -mtime +$retention_days -type f -delete
echo $(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M:%S) End Clean Up >> $backup_path/$DspName

On an RPi4B upgrading isn't that much of a problem, never got it working on an RPi3B+, did a complete re-install on that one (and will sometime in the near future attempt a clean install on the 4B).

Did you mount the file systems? And for some reason your screenshot won't load.

Quote from ryecoaaron

Nope. That means a file didn't install or uninstall correctly. You have to post all output for people to help with that.

It was in his post #307.

One reason I suggested he switch to English.

Ich würde vorschlagen erstens auf Englisch um zu schalten.

To me that seems like you are having network and/or connection problems, I don't have any problem reaching ftp.de.debian.org or httpredir.debian.org. For dl.bintray.com I do however get an HTTP ERROR 404.

Quote from charlielhyde

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Why did you kick this one after nearly a year of quietude?

For dependency problems I've had some good results with Aptitude:

sudo apt-get install aptitude

sudo aptitude install docker-ce openmediavault-docker

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Quote from jrackerman

One little typo - that was all thank you so much gderf.
My router home IP is 192.168.0.1 and worked - tried it as 192.168.0.0 and it also worked.

With that "/24" everything after the third period (in the fourth byte) is just a placeholder, even with 255 it would have worked.

Basic bash script, see here for some basic instructions on "while" in bash.

I would however start with c=6 in line 1 and delete line 2, no need to restart it if it is healthy (and yes, check on status != healthy, it might be dead or stopped, in which case you probably wish to restart as well).

Quote from Moreno

So, GOOD NEWS , this commande have solved the problem

Code

rm /var/cache/openmediavault/archives/Packages

apt-get update

Apt-get update && apt-get upgrade : Works again now.

Thanks for your help.

Have a nice day.

Same here, thanks.

After receiving the exact same message by email and using omv-firstaid as described above, I get the following result:

Quote

Clear out the local repository of uploaded package files. Please wait ...

Get:1 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives InRelease

Ign:1 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives InRelease

Get:2 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Release

Ign:2 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Release

Get:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Packages

Ign:3 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Packages

Get:4 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Contents (deb)

Ign:4 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Contents (deb)

Get:5 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Contents (deb)

Ign:5 file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives Contents (deb)

Hit:6 http://security.debian.org buster/updates InRelease

Hit:7 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster InRelease

Hit:8 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster-updates InRelease

Hit:9 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian buster-backports InRelease

Hit:10 http://security.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates InRelease

Hit:11 http://packages.openmediavault.org/public usul InRelease

Hit:13 https://download.docker.com/linux/debian buster InRelease

Hit:14 https://openmediavault.github.io/packages usul InRelease

Ign:15 https://dl.bintray.com/openmediavault-plugin-developers/usul buster InRelease

Ign:16 https://dl.bintray.com/openmed…in-developers/usul-extras buster InRelease

Hit:17 https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian buster InRelease

Get:18 https://dl.bintray.com/openmediavault-plugin-developers/usul buster Release [4363 B]

Get:19 https://dl.bintray.com/openmed…in-developers/usul-extras buster Release [3538 B]

Hit:12 https://apt.armbian.com buster InRelease

Fetched 7901 B in 5s (1607 B/s)

Reading package lists... Done

E: Failed to fetch file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives/Packages.gz Method gave a blank filename

E: Failed to fetch file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives/Contents-all.gz File not found - /var/cache/openmediavault/a rchives/Contents-all.gz (2: No such file or directory)

E: Failed to fetch file:/var/cache/openmediavault/archives/Contents-armhf.gz File not found - /var/cache/openmediavault /archives/Contents-armhf.gz (2: No such file or directory)

E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

ERROR: Command '['apt-get', 'update']' returned non-zero exit status 100.

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The same four error messages followed by an extra one are at the bottom. Clearly omv-firstaid doesn't solve this problem.

After: sudo ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules

I get: ln: failed to create symbolic link '/etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules': File exists

And I am in the GUI.

Thanks, would that be for the upgrade, the clean install or both?

I will let you know the results when I'm done, but that will take at least a couple of hours as I first need to fix diner for my wife and sons.

Quote from ryecoaaron

Curious why it was installed. I changed omv-extras as well - https://github.com/OpenMediaVa…d7a45513ec68d0d9ee9d3d329 - but I'm not going to push out a new release. So, it will be out with the next release.

Looks good, but I would code the change a level higher, checking both for the presence of update-grub and the correct architecture.

Yes, I am a programmer, different system (AS/400) and language (CLP, COBOL, RPG and RPGLE), but I can read this code by now.

EDIT:

FYI: Just checked my RPi 3b+ and grub seems to be there to:

ii  grub-common                         2.02~beta3-5+deb9u2
ii  grub2-common                        2.02~beta3-5+deb9u2

Quote from Aux

You download Win32DiskImager make complete backup of the 8GB SD-Card, you write back the image to 32GB SD-Card.

My experiences with Win32DiskImager were less than satisfactory. I prefer to generate a daily backup image on an attached USB drive with a nice script (and a cron job). And I've repeatedly used those (zipped) images to restore my system after a failed update/upgrade.

Quote from ryecoaaron

I know commenting out the lines "fixes" your system but grub should never be installed on an RPi. What is the output of: dpkg -l | grep grub omv-grubiso is installed by omv-extras. I guess I could make it exit without error but I really want to know why/how grub is installed.

It was:

ii  grub-common                         2.02+dfsg1-20                       armhf        GRand Unified Bootloader (common files)
ii  grub2-common                        2.02+dfsg1-20                       armhf        GRand Unified Bootloader (common files for version 2)

Gone after: apt remove grub-common grub2-common

EDIT:

No, I don't know how it came to be on my system, but it was removed before you gave your reply.

Quote from ryecoaaron

If you are using dhcp, the IP address will change because of the change in network service. I just tested this on an RPi4b.

Could you please tell us what the new IP address would be? By now I've given up on OMV5 for my Raspberry Pi3B+ as neither updating nor re-installing works. The device just completely drops from the network. I verified this a couple of times with a pretty aggressive network/port scanner and it just isn't there anymore. It may decide to change its IP address to some other subnet, but that is just a bit too much address space to hunt in.

EDIT: And in the case of updating, the IP address was fixed, not using DHCP.

Quote from ryecoaaron

What kind of system? omv-grubiso should only run on systems where it finds the update-grub command (should not exist on unsupported arches like arm).

On a Raspberry Pi 4B, I saw the if and apparently it was satisfied. As I already wrote, commenting out those three lines solved the problem. And I don't know how omv-grubiso came to reside on it, will look into removing it.

EDIT:

Checked, saw both update-grub and update-grub2 in /usr/sbin.

Nope, just tried it again. Right after

wget -O - https://github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/installScript/raw/master/install | sudo bash

and the following reboot, it never came back up on the network. I could see there was some network activity (led on the ethernetport), but that was all, it didn't even show up anymore on the network scanner. Besides that it also didn't give a signature to visual when I connected it to my TV. Something isn't right in that script and I don't know what. I do know the original images for OMV4 were a lot easier to work with.