Posts by chudak

So it was a catastrophic SeaGate HD 5TB failure

Quote from macom

This?

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RE: Newbie question on backing up boot device

@ryecoaaron
I actually was able on the second try to successful restore the system
Steps:
- run Backup plugin
- gzip -d backup-omv-30-Jun-2020_14-57-39.ddfull.gz
- sudo pishrink.sh -v backup-omv-30-Jun-2020_14-57-39.ddfull.img backup-omv-30-Jun-2020_14-57-39.ddfull-shrunk.img
- used Etcher to restore shrunk file

But had the same thought you described "Since you are backing a live OS, it is possible that some things may not be perfect"

How do you do manage that with crontab dd ? Do you stop services…

chudak

Jul 1st 2020

If the size of the SD card has not changed, just use usbimager or Etcher to flash the ddfull.gz file to the SD card.

yes thx!

Hello

I may need to restore backup in order to recover my pi OMV.
I do have files as:

./backup-omv-2025-11-09_01-30-01.fdisk

./backup-omv-2025-11-09_01-30-01.grub

./backup-omv-2025-11-30_01-30-01.packages

./backup-omv-2025-11-30_01-30-01.grub

./backup-omv-2025-11-30_01-30-01.grubparts

./backup-omv-2025-11-30_01-30-01.sfdisk

./backup-omv-2025-11-30_01-30-01.ddfull.gz

I don't remember exact steps how to restore and burn them on the PI card.

I remember I wrote all steps here, in the forum for posterity but can't find it

Can anyone point me to a write up on this?
TIA

I updated Version 6.9.16-1 (Shaitan) on my pi ARMv7 Processor rev 3 (v7l) and lost main disk mount.

Unfortunately ChatGPT got to me to the point when I can't ssh to my pi

Here is the AI summary FYI

I have an OpenMediaVault 6.9.16 installation running on a Raspberry Pi (Linux 5.10.103-v7l+).

After the latest update, my external USB hard drive (Seagate One Touch HDD, 5TB) stopped mounting. The system log showed UAS errors, read failures, and repeated USB resets. Eventually the disk disappeared from lsusb and OMV could not mount /dev/disk/by-label/MAIN.

To try to fix the UAS issue remotely (because I have no physical access to the Pi), I added this UAS quirk to /boot/cmdline.txt:

usb-storage.quirks=0bc2:ac2b:u

After reboot, the Pi no longer starts SSH. It responds to pings, but SSH shows:

TIA

resolved found credential file

Hello

I have scheduled tasks that use "aws cli"
I had to change the endpoint and credentials because of the ISP changes.

Updated credentials via "aws config" and can run tasks manually, e.g. via ssh as:
/usr/bin/aws --endpoint-url https://XYZ s3 sync /srv/dev-disk-by-label-MAIN/omvbackup/ s3://xyz/

All looks good, however, the same task does not run via UI. The error led me to believe that it does not find the right credentials.

I can't find where they are to be.

I do see

~/.aws/credentials

Anybody any clues?
TIA

Quote from ryecoaaron

I just installed timeshift on a fresh install and no emails.

Did you select "Stop cron email" option?

How to ping the timeshift folks?

Quote from ryecoaaron

Do you get it on every reboot? If not, I wouldn't worry about it. Must have been some initial setup timeshift does. I don't remember ever seeing that but I get one email from timeshift per hour as expected on my primary server.

I've selected "Stop cron email"
But why are there so many emails?

(this is a spinoff from my other thread)

I enabled TimeShift for /dev/mmcblk0p2 card on my Pi and got 40+ emails on reboot

Cron <root@xyx-pi> timeshift --check --scripted

Mounted '/dev/mmcblk0p2' at '/run/timeshift/2135345/backup'

Weekly snapshots are enabled

Last weekly snapshot is 0 days old

What were those? Is it normal?

I enabled TimeShift for /dev/mmcblk0p2 card on my Pi and got 40+ emails on reboot

Cron <root@xyx-pi> timeshift --check --scripted

Mounted '/dev/mmcblk0p2' at '/run/timeshift/2135345/backup'

Weekly snapshots are enabled

Last weekly snapshot is 0 days old

What were those? Is it normal?

I see an option in TimeShift setting to "Stop cron email", maybe that is what it does?

Quote from Soma

Is your Pi3 running armhf?

Yes

Pi3:

Processor

ARMv7 Processor rev 3 (v7l)

Kernel

Linux 5.10.103-v7l+

Version

6.9.16-1 (Shaitan)

Pi5:

Processor

Raspberry Pi 5 Model B Rev 1.0

Kernel

Linux 6.6.62+rpt-rpi-2712

Version

7.4.17-2 (Sandworm)

I've noticed TimeShift plugin and have a couple of questions

I see it on R Pi 5 but not on R Pi 3. Is it expected?

Now when I look at Settings I see my SIM card as:

/dev/mmcblk0p2 59G 5.6G 50G 11% /

/dev/mmcblk0p1 510M 63M 448M 13% /boot/firmware

How do I need to back it up and restore it later?

cc: ftriscari

Quote from crashtest

It's better to "pull" an rsync job, from a remote source to a destination on the local server. The reason being, with a push job, if the destination becomes unavailable, a butt-load of temp files may be created on the local server. When pulling, if the remote source is not available, the job simply fails. There's no down side.

If you pull, you also do chown at the destination for local users. It's done at the bottom of an Rsync task in extra options.

--chmod=0755 --chown=root:users

That worked nicely and makes sense, thx!

"I think the limitation of this approach is that all files on the destination side are 'owned' by root. This is not an issue for me but might be for you if you have multiple users."

I need my files to be owned by a specific user.

Thx for the details I will try.

Not sure if it is justified as it still kinda "works"

Quote from jata1

I think this error will be permission related but need more info on the rsync task/setup.

What are the details of type, source and destination and the user account used.

I use Rsync Service

Push

Source - SMB shared folder on OMV server

Destination - remote OMV server rsync://user@server/folder

Hello

I've setup a rsync task using Rsync Service

It seems to be working fine, but I get an error when run it:

rsync: [generator] failed to set times on "." (in XXX): Operation not permitted (1)

I am not sure how to modify options for this task.

Any clues are appreciated.

TIA

Quote from ryecoaaron

/dev/sda is the disk

/dev/sda1 is a partition on the disk.

If you see /dev/sda1 in the Filesystems tab, that means the partition has a filesystem on it.

Without more info like what you are seeing in the filesystems tab, I can't tell you more.

I got you

Sounds like I was getting worried for nothing. It's as expected

Thx!

Happy Friday all!

I have a USB disk that is listed via Storage/Disks as "/dev/sda"

However, the same disk/device is shown in File Systems as "/dev/sda1"

I am almost sure it's because I tried connecting a new HD and then disconnected it.

It does not cause any problems, but I am curious about what's happening and how to clean it up.

Or just ignore it?

TIA

Quote from johnvick

Are these USB drives? If so this page:

https://blog.karssen.org/2022/…expansion-portable-drive/

Helped me get two Seagate 5 TB USB drives return SMART data.

Thx it looks like a good way to do it.

But I am hesitant to mess up with my drive/kernel just for some additional info.