Posts by xavierlun

  • ZFS and ssd drive

    ZFS is said to recquire much ram and also to be supported by an available cache ssd drive



    normally this have to be tweeked by hand



    does the ZFS plugin can take advantage by of any available ssd drive ?



    if yes
    may you recommend this drive to be an independant/additionnal drive ? or tha main OS drive ?




    (my actual OS drive is a WD blue but i may switch to ssd drive if this give an advantage to the machine speed)

  • auto snapshots with zfs plugin

    Hello


    i was waiting for btrfs support in openmediavault but it does not seem under way
    so i am switching my NAS from ext4 to ZFS which seems to be quite stable to what i hear


    (actually i have EXT4 drive and in parallel a copy of dataset with ZFS)


    up to now i am happy about the transfer



    I have one question about the usage of snapshot
    i have seen how to create a snapshot



    but i would like to know if there is any easy way in the ZFS plugin to create the snapshot automatically on schedule (maybe in the beta version)
    also to check errors it is necessary to launch some check/repaire command on a regular base ?

  • backup plugin : urbackup, backuppc or whatever

    to backup from desktp client to my openmediavault nas


    actually i am using urbackup, some others are using backuppc,
    it is possible to make a manual installation of those softwares as shown there :


    BackupPC Install Guide




    in parallel i am also using syncthing to sync data over 3 OMV nas.


    at thh begining i was using everything with manual installation, then when syncthing debian package was released.
    @ryecoaaron did make a OMV plugin for syncthing which is greate


    BitTorrent Sync 2.0



    as urbackup and backuppc have existing debian package


    http://www.urbackup.org/debianserverinstall.html


    https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=backuppc





    would it be difficult to create an OMV plugin for them ?

  • OMV backup strategy

    @subzero79
    @jerry



    for backup :
    i am very interested in btrfs and snapper. in fact i am waiting so much for btrfs in omv
    but i do not want to twist so much my omv machines with btrfs only b myself.


    in parallel to omv i am running a btrfs based rockstor instance and it is much less stable. so i am cautions with btrfs


    would there be any plugin or tutoriel about how to use btrfs and snapper your way?



    but high availability / replication :
    rockstor is suppose to replicate well the machines but configuration is much less possibility than omv.



    inside omv we have several tools to backup and replicate the main configuration to restore the installation after the crash ( usb-backup and backup plugins)


    could we use that basis to maintain a complete live replica of the main machine and not only a usb key backup ?

  • Syncthing

    i have started the registration on syncthing of your plugin


    so that openmediavault-syncthing will be presented there in the installation options for syncthing

  • Syncthing

    actually to add easily a folder


    syncthing gui allows for a shortcut ~ that normally links to Home/user/
    on my actualy plugin install it links to : /var/lib/btsync.


    maybe in a future of the plugin we could have the same interface as for btsync where a omv user can manage it own syncthing instance and have a direct interface to the folders he is allowed to access to

  • Syncthing

    i expressed myself in a wrong way :


    first : i am so happy that you are working on this plugin to make a great switch from btsync
    and it is very good way to start right away with a simple workable plugin that will evolve with time



    1
    i did not used the community debian package of syncthing.
    i did neither build syncthing from github source files
    i did worked with the official syncthing linux builds taken which are published on github as ready to use executables : https://github.com/syncthing/syncthing/releases


    because in fact syncthing does not seem to need dependecies to be workable


    2
    concerning additionnel features
    i am in the mood for multi user :)


    if the init script directly creates an instance for each user this is pretty cool already :)

  • OMV backup strategy

    update on my install



    actually for replication between to omv machines : i made a switch from btsync to syncthing directly installed from syncthing and i will look carefully on the new syncthing plugin which seems promising



    i use urbackup to manage centrally scheduled backups from several machines to my main omv instance



    and i make rsnapshots inside a omv machine on a regular basis

  • Syncthing

    your plugin seems to be working properlly for one syncthing user.


    regular usage of syncthing is to make run a syncthing instance by each user, at different ports.


    so that each user of the nas can sync the files on his equipment with the directories he is allowed to access on the nas


    for this a config file for each user has to be modified to define the port of the gui and access conditions
    and the cronjobs have to be created so that the syncthing executable is started on boot for each user

  • Syncthing

    great work


    actually i have installed syncthing directly from the syncthing download page on github



    i will make a try with your plugin and report if there is some unexpected things

  • btrfs install

    thanks for this guide i will make a try on a test machine.




    i know that the omv community was more focussed on zfs suport to allow move from freebsd nas users to omv.
    it seems that now zfs plugins are released.


    is there any interest from someone to develop this functions inside a btrfs plugin for omv ?




    # btrfs subvolume create /media/<UUID>/@newsubvolume/.snapshots


    # btrfs subvolume snapshot /media/<UUID>/@newsubvolume /media/<UUID>/@newsubvolume/.snapshots

    # mv /media/<UUID>/@newsubvolume/.snapshots /media/<UUID>/@newsubvolume



    so that everything is done through the web interface ?
    would this be something complicated to do ?

  • BitTorrent Sync 2.0

    yeah it seems HK 47 had a disappoiting test of syncthing



    but we are several persons thinking that syncthing is pretty fine




    i feel it works quite as nice as btsync
    just is would enjoy an good integration inside omv



    i am using syncthing but outside of omv actually