Posts by Adrian E

Thanks - looking at this again I'm wondering if it would be easier to pull all the data off the drives and start from scratch? I have backed up the content I need and I'm not bothered about losing the backups for my desktop and laptop as I can set the backups up again easily enough.

I've upgraded OMV to 1.0.31 using Putty CLI so had a small amount of practice with that now!

Quite keen not to have to setup all the folder shares side of things again, but OMV is on a USB stick (I know! Going to move it to a 5th HDD once I've sorted this out) so none of the storage drives are used for OMV installation so could be wiped.

Is that a simpler and potentially less time consuming option? If so what order steps do I need to take?

Thanks for the advice - my 2 new 3TD WD Reds arrived today so will be playing soon. 9TB capacity should keep me going for a while!

Thanks for the advice - I'm probably searching with the wrong terms in google. I had to look up CLI to understand what you're suggesting I need to do lol

My friend who did the install was messing about with software called Putty - is that the sort of thing you mean for CLI?

If there's an obvious and simple guide to performing at least the 1st step, or the whole lot a link would be gratefully bookmarked

Adrian

Hi there

I will first of all say I am not an IT pro, but can follow instructions and generally not brick stuff!

I have OMV 0.5.60 installed on an HP Micro Server. At the moment I have a pair of 3TB WD red drives installed, but these are nearing capacity in a straight mirrored RAID config.

I'm intending to buy 2 more 3TB WD reds to fill the available bays. The server gets used to backup a desktop and laptop on a weekly basis and is largely used for media server duties around the house, so lots of music and large video files.

Is there a walk through guide to adding additional drives and what steps I need to take in what order for OMV to recognise them?

Given the above usage what RAID config is recommended? I'm happy to live with 1 drive failure to give maximum storage, but not sure what other factors I need to take into account?

Grateful for any guidance - I haven't yet ordered the drives but will be doing so shortly.

Adrian

Hi David

Yes, I know. It has always done so and when it's done a full backup it will then start a new date range (usually a month to 6 weeks) at which point it would give you the option to delete the previous months worth of data. It is only a change to backing up to the server managed via OMV that has stopped it from working as it did before (used to back up to a WD NAS before) so I'm assuming it's a configuration issue of some sort

I use the built in windows 7 backup and restore utility

Hiya

I've been using my HP micro server with OMV for a while now. It was largely installed by a server-literate friend and I'm not an IT professional, or even particularly IT terminology literate person so please be gentle!

I have various folder shares setup between my desktop and laptop, both of which run Win7 Pro. I have separate backup folders on my micro server for each machine and they're set to do a weekly backup.

The issue I'm having is that on both machines when I view my backups and try to manage space, only the most recent backup is visible through backup and restore. On my desktop that's about 350GB plus about 1TB for a system image.

If I browse to the folder where my backups are stored on the server I have folders dating back to May! At the moment it's not an issue as I'm not short of space, but obviously from a maintenance point of view I don't want to leave the old backups on there when I don't need them. I'm also concerned that if I ever need to do a restore it may not function properly if there's access issues.

Has anyone else experienced this and can offer some suggestions of settings I might not have setup correctly for the old backups to display?

When I first noticed it wasn't working properly I tried deleting everything related to backups pre-server in case it was doing something odd, but it's made no difference.

Any pointers or extra info required to respond gratefully received

Adrian