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Hello! I have made a small OMV NAS with a RPi and everything is working well locally, but I want to be able to access it remotely when travelling. I am very new to RPi and OMV so I did a lot of research to determine Wireguard would be perfect for that. I found a number of guides how to do that on YouTube, but every single one is outdated and most use PiVPN which is now discontinued and I don't think necessary when we have Wireguard as a plugin. Would someone please guide me through the steps to correctly setup the Wireguard 6.3.7 plugin so I can access my Raspberry Pi OpenMediaVault 6 NAS from the Internet? Thank you and I really appreciate your help!

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Hello, I can't get NFS to work on my ODROID HC4 with OpenMediaVault setup running on Armbian Buster. VLC on my Android phone just says this: I got a tip to use NFS on Linux - Kodi running on LibreElec and my phone ...and SMB with my laptop running Win10. Is this setup fine or should I be concern about any issues that may come from using different operating systems? Thank you

hey guys, yet again im having issues just trying to find an OS for my nas. TruNas told me to fuck off so i installed OpenMediaVault. i followed this guide and half way through the guy does an 180 and i have no idea what the fuck im suppose to do. i rebooted it booted into the OS and now im sitting here with a blank screen. plz help. thanks

Hello guys! So I want to host HRConvert2 on my openmediavault using Docker and Portainer. However, I'm receiving an error. I did not setup any firewall to block port 53:53/tcp and 53:53/udp on my openmediavault. I successfully installed FileRun, a self-hosted File Manager. I also tried to install pihole or adgaurdhome, which uses port 53, received an error regarding port 53. I've also checked the resolv.conf of the openmediavault, the "Cache" and "DNSStubListener" was set to "yes". [Resolve] #DNS= #FallbackDNS= #Domains= #LLMNR=yes #MulticastDNS=yes #DNSSEC=allow-downgrade #DNSOverTLS=no #Cache=yes #DNSStubListener=yes #ReadEtcHosts=yes I already rebooted the system, it did not solve the port 53 error.

i would like to have some advice... i would like to have a NAS solution but i can not afford it now.. 1. I got my PC at home that i use for work and i´m thinking if it would be a good idea to install an OMV VM inside Win10 in order to hack a backup solution and get acces to those files (easily) from the internet (outside of mu local network) ? 2. also i have a few HDDs in my PC (3 desktop drives and 2 WD nas drives) i would like to know if the VM is running with the WD NAS drives mounted on it.... the other drives mounted on win10 will keep spining all the time ? this can cause some damage to the desktop drives? Thanks a lot

So I Installed OpenMediaVault (either v5 or v6) on an USB according to the guide (https://openmediavault.readthedocs.io/en/5.x/installation/on_usb.html) then rebooted. GRUB error trying to read diff device or so ... PS: more Information and the exact error later (its currently midnight in Germany - just posting so i dont forget). FYI I can boot by going into grub shell and typing some commands - but thats not how it should work -right

Hey, this is my first post, so I´m already sorry upfront if I´m doing anything horribly wrong. I read all the community standards and hope to be at the right place - if not, feel free to guide me. I´m an absolut noob regarding forums. Build: I´m using my first gaming computer, built in 2014. Sadly my GTX 760 died after installing Windows 10 and I´ve literally tried everything to make it work, but nah. Code 43 - seems dead or at least not worth the 80 bucks that it´s worth on the used market here. Fortunately, I built the system with an i7. So currently it can run on the onboard-graphics. CPU: i7 4790 RAM: 8 GB DDR3 BOOT-DRIVE: 64 GB SanDisk Flash-Thumbdrive with OpenMediaVault installed on it DATA-DRIVE: Currently only one Samsung QVO SSD 1 TB - it was laying around here and as I got frustrated while fixing my GPU, the NAS idea came up yep, a NAS with one drive - laugh about it. i would probably as well - but yea, as i said, i was really frustrated ^^ and my backups are currently on my running systems and on external hard drives. just waiting for black friday to come around for some deals mb POWER SUPPLY: 500W - is it even possible to put a newer GPU into it? GPU: If possible with the power supply that´s in the build, I would get a used one. Any recommendations what I should lookout for? And at what price point are the recommended GPUs considered "a good deal"? I obviously don´t want any harsh bottlenecks or overpay when I can get a similar GPU brand new for a little more. Budget (including currency): not planned Country: Germany Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: [Currently]: - NAS connected via SMB as a simple shared folder [Planned]: - NAS for backing up all my data on workstation, laptop, tablet and phone - Cloudstorage so I´m having access on the data on every device wherever I am (Nextcloud would be neat) - I want to switch from Notion to a self hosted alternative that should run on it - VaultWarden as password manager - Implementing Cloudron to install Guacamole, Nextcloud and other stuff - your ideas are very welcome I know quite a lot of workloads for an i7-4790 - but I´m the only concurrent user. Maybe sometimes my gf in addition - but most of the times my gf connects while i´m sitting next to her. so really there is only one concurrent user. [Ideas and stuff I heard about but don´t really know if it´s possible ^^] - PiKVM and PiHole (everybody talks about them, but I dont know if and how that would be useful for me) - Jellyfin (everybody as well talks about it - but it seems a bit shady. whats going on there?) [Current Problems and considerations] - As I´m storing sensitive data of my company and clients, I need it to be really safe. I already encrypted the whole drive and I´m only allowing users to gain access + the client data folder is not browseable - so you dont know that its even there unless you type in the actual name The SSH and SMB Ports are all changed from default - but is this safe enough? I don´t want anybody of my home network to gain access of this client data, let alone somebody from outside. - Guacamole or ManageEngine EndpointCentral to be able to remotely access my workstation via my iPad from anywhere - Is it safe to run data on nextcloud through a vm? Somewhere when I learned about this whole NAS-topic I read that you should´nt run your nas and store your data on a VM. Makes sense to me. But everywhere I read about for example Nextcloud or Plex, they run it through Proxmox, which is, correct me if I´m wrong, running containers of Nextcloud. So basically it´s on a VM as well, right? I know that these are a lot of questions - Of course I did some research myself, but either they´re not talking about the same problem or they´re talking about the problem, but start to write traditional chinese after the first answer - impossible for a newbie to understand. So I´m hoping somebody in here can shed some light into the darkness ^^ Any suggestions are greatly appreciated! Sorry for my foreign english and if I did something wrong regarding the forum guidelines. Thank you for any help in advance!

I have been using a Intel Pentium E2160 for my NAS, the issue is that it cannot transcode h.265 video. I have been thinking of adding a gtx 1650 for hardware transcoding. I wanted to know if my CPU will bottle neck my GPU or not ? P.S. - I will be having only one stream running at a timr

Recently my friend asked me to built his company a "portable" ARM-based NAS, he explained that his team need NAS rather than portable drive since they need to do work collab on their Adobe suite and other multimedia program with temporary project storage, he's need it to be portable because his team usually work on shared office space and coffee shop (He doesn't want to use finished off the shelf product). His basic requirement listed down below: Support up to 4 client access wired and support wireless mode (for quick preview on their phone and ipads), 2.5GBe networking for wired and atleast AC WiFi for wireless (need to have dedicated router for security purpose). Has UPS battery backup atleast for 1 hour with all services still running. The system need to be low powered (65W or lower) and support PD power input (He's planning to use 100W PD charger for this). Atleast 10TB of storage with good IO Speed (he told me atleast need to be 1.5-2GB/s ish R/W raw disk pool speed). Optional disk encryption and ofcourse, since it's portable, need to somehow safe for frequent transport. He willingly spend up to $1.5k for the project (he understand that this is custom system solution). His team already have several 5/10GBe USB/Thunderbolt NIC and used it regularly on their laptops/macbooks for accesing their primary NAS at the office (which also I built), so using 2.5GBe solution is a must for them. My current plan for the system is: Using RK3588 based device such as Radxa Rock 5B with 8GB of RAM (Thx to fully exposed full PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe slot and secondary M.2 E key slot running at PCIe 2.0 x1, and also have 2.5 NIC built in). Running the OS on 32GB eMMC. Dual NVMe drive connected to ASMedia ASM2812 PCIe bifurcation card (plugged to M.2 NVMe via riser). Using USB HDD or Dedicated low power HBA (HBA connected to M.2 E key at PCIe 2.0 x1, I think that enough for handling 4 HDD bandwidth) Using 2x 64GB Intel Optane M10 as SSD cache. Using 4x 4TB HDD on RAID-Z1 config. Dedicated Router with NanoPi R5C as base, 1st 2.5GBe NIC connected to NAS, 2nd 2.5GBe NIC connected to network switch, Mediatek RTL8812AU USB WiFi + Realtek Gbit USB NIC + Fibocom L860 4G modem for WAN connection Dedicated AC/AX WiFi Access Point (ill think the option for this later on). Now, I have several question to ask: I planned to use OMV (OpenMediaVault) on Debian since neither Unraid or TrueNAS have ARM compability, does OMV provide stable provide for basic NAS purpose? how good are their ZFS plugin? Or any other OS recommendation? Does Linux BCache (Block Cache) play well on ARM devies, especially when used in conjunction with OMV? Any other suggestion to use SSD as L2 Cache if BCache is bad? Does any 2.5 inch external USB HDD support SMART monitoring on Linux + OMV? Like WD My passport / Seagate expansion drive? or any specific SATA3 to USB 3.0 IC/Chip that support both UASP and SMART monitoring? if USB not an option, any recommendation for low power SATA HBA that easy to compile/have native support on ARM kernel? I planned to use ASMedia ASM1064 based card. Is built in realtek NIC on both NAS and router are OK for this type of system configuration? Any suggestion is welcomed (Except told him to buy off the shelf soluion ). Sorry for my messy english, i'm not native english speaker.

Hello! My home fibre gets upgraded from 300Mb to 1Gb later today. I don't believe my current Raspberry Pi 4, with Open Media Vault and external HDD, will be able to write files fast enough for the data that's coming in over the fibre line. Ideally I'd prefer an SBC rather than a laptop and PC, both for initial and ongoing costs, due to how infrequently I use the NAS. The NAS' primary purpose is to download torrents which a Kodi box access in another room (no transcoding). Some sort of SBC that can either handle an SATA SSD at 1Gbps, or an NVMe capable one, would be perfect. Any recommendations wouild be great. Thanks!

I want to thank you guys for previous forum topic for advices ( for picking right parts for my budget freenas ) but I am running some issues, country there i life, thunderstorm kinda often thing in summer ( and you all know thunder and electronics have a bit of bad relationship i don't want to burn my new freenas nas server ) where was one time then thunder fried all electronic in summer huose . So then am going to travel ( or be far way from home ) and think good solution will be raspberry pi 3 using openmediavault and plugin plex and bitsync and i have some forgotten 2.0 usb hdd and going to get some use of it. So i want to ask you good people of forum its good idea or not ? On that quality raspberry pi 3 can stream videos ? as i read in forums pi cant trascode video or its false ? It would great if you guys give me feedback or suguest maybe another idea for this situation. Thanks in advance !

I have decided to go with OMV. Great. I have a 990FX motherboard that is gathering dust and I just need a cpu. Do I need a gpu to run OMV. Thanks in advance.

Hey guys! Today I was thinking about my NAS and how I could make it better. I'm running a server on ESXI with Freenas on it and some other VM's. Now I've been thinking about what I should do with my NAS. Right now I have 5 2 TB WD drives in RaidZ2 set up and it's getting more and more filled. I'm thinking how I could best add storage etc. I've been thinking about changing my NAS OS to unraid, as this will give me more flexibility in terms of adding drives (otherwise I'd buy 5 4TB drives and either change the old ones or make another vdev and stripe them together). My NAS OS can be very stupid, as I'm using other VM's for sickrage, plex etc. Now I've read that FreeNAS is faster and more reliable, but is unraid worse? Right now I have at most 3 users on my plex server and I use the NAS as simple media storage and backups. I do however also create my own android apps and later (read when I save some more money) I would like to directly work on my workstation but with the files on the server (as this would stop me needing to back up everything by hand). So I don't know if UnRaid would be able to handle this. Right now I feel I'm somewhat on a crossroads, as I can still remove all my data from my volume and do something completely different, if necessary. Somebody have any suggestions/experiences to help me?

First post! Over they years, I have become quite fond of using the RaspberyyPi line for hobby/projects. Recently, I have deployed a basic home NAS/backup/seedbox using OpenMediaVault 3.x and hit multiple performance ceilings with this setup. Obviously, network speeds can only go so far and even with a gigabit network adapter, we saturate at USB 2.0. Even with the 64bit CPU, OMV images and other debian-based rPi capable distros run 32bit. Even when 64bit distros become the norm for ARM, the CPU can't handle much. Attempts to run Plex have been mixed; if the client has the codecs built in, it runs so-so. If not, it poops the bed. As an experiment, I popped Debian 8 and OMV 3.X onto an older MacBook Pro 13in. (Gen2 i5) I had in my backup stash. This CPU was able to handle a single stream without a hiccup, but kicked CPU usage to 96% - second stream was a bit laggy, third really started causing problems. So, from this I learned Plex transcoding at 720p+ is going to be pretty resource heavy depending on the files. I can either transcode anything I get elsewhere to play nicer or I need better hardware. Additionally, I began to feel I wanted more overhead on a home server to run other applications like a secure personal cloud as well as have a decent enough footprint to start teaching myself some new skills. My current hobbies/interest are pushing me towards media editing so I am going to need at the very least a slightly faster storage solution that my desktop and backing up to a rPi NAS but I am also interested in learning more about virtualization, testing, scripting, deployment - dev. ops/admin/QA professionally. My research has been all over the map; from taking a look at various mobile/IoT dev boards (with better i/o like gbit eth and sata) to the intel NUC line and Dell mini-servers. I've also been looking at various "pro-sumer" grade desktop hardware RAID boxes. The NUC line has some decent options but for the kind of work I want to do and based on what I saw with Plex on an i5, anything less than a Skull-Canyon NUC would not likely handle the kind of multi-tasking I am looking to do with a home server. At the SC NUC price-point, I might as well pay a little more for actual server hardware so this led me to the Supermicro SuperServer E200-8D. I'm pretty confident that box with 32gb of server ECC RAM and an intel m.2 nvme SSD would work nicely with a desktop e-sata raidbox. You could easily snake a e-sata>sata cable to the sata headers in the case and pop thru one of the removable back port covers. In the future, if the board survives, this system could be rack-mounted and used with a larger format raid array later and is compatible with a PCI riser/bracket for expansion. That said, a system like this could also be used to learn how to offload rendering work to another system, but I have been catching some references to some video work actually benefiting from a server having a GPU? Way cart before the horse. Alternatively, I could go Skull Canyon i7 NUC and also have a pretty capable HTPC setup as well. And, now I am rambling. Really just looking to spur discussion about this hardware. I am quite a long ways from purchasing anything any time soon, but I do want to learn as much as possible. I think a more powerful/secure home server/lab for myself and the work my partner does wouldn't be a bad investment.

I'm following this video above to connect my Raspberry Pi to my ExtHDD. In the video, he explains that we'll need the drive mount point to give it permissions to be accessed in Nextcloud. He can see the "mount point" on the OMV control panel > File Systems (1st attached photo) But I cannot (2nd attached photo). I'm sure the mount point for my ExtHDD is /srv/dev-by-label-VIP, but nothing works when I put that path into Nextcloud's external drive app. Is there a terminal command I can use to see exactly where the actual mount point is? I've searched all over forums and can't seem to find how I can find it. I've mounted the drive, but the mount point isn't displayed for me on the OMV control panel. I ANSWERED MY OWN QUESTION SMH: If the mount point column doesn't show for you, click the "mounted" bar and select "columns". From there, you can select to show the "mount point" column Sometimes I surprise myself with how I can ask a question but immediately get the answer by simply looking around

Hi, so, I'm thinking of building a NAS with at least 40 terabytes worth of drive (Storage of footage). I plan on using freenas or openmediavault, with a pentium, a super micro motherboard, 64 gb of ram, and a 240 gb boot drive in raid 0/1. I am not sure on how it would format if I decided to add drives, so can someone please explain to me the process? That would be greatly appreciated.

Hey guys, I want to install the plugin openmediavault-remotedesktop on my openmediavault. Installation fails saying: The following packages have unmet dependencies: openmediavault-remotedesktop : Depends: xrdp (>= 0.9.4) but 0.9.1-9+deb9u3 is to be installed what does that mean and how to fix it?

Hey, I wanted to get some recommendations on NAS Software for the following hardware: • Intel Xeon X3430 2.4GHz - https://ark.intel.com/products/42927/Intel-Xeon-Processor-X3430-8M-Cache-2_40-GHz • Intel Board S3420GPLC - https://ark.intel.com/products/46533/Intel-Server-Board-S3420GPLC • 16GB DDR3 1333MHz (Not sure yet which, most probably not ECC as I don't have the budget for it) • 5 x 1TB Drives I don't really have the budget for new stuff, and I can get the board + CPU for super cheap - ~$162 I currently have a FreeNAS 9.3 Box, but it's an old Pentium and it's just being used for file storage and pretty much nothing else. I really want FreeNAS 11 at this point because it has built in Bhyve VM support, which means I can virtualize my other Ubuntu Server box that I use for Home Automation amongst other things. I am just not sure if this old Xeon (LGA 1156) is strong enough for FreeNAS with ZFS + VM's. If you know of any other NAS Software that can handle VM's, that'd be cool. Otherwise, I was thinking of maybe doing Proxmox, and running 2 VM's, Ubuntu Server + Whatever NAS OS. Thoughts? Cheers

Hi guys, I started a post where I was trying to decide for a NAS OS, I finally went to Openmediavault. I haven't started seting up the drives yet but I see no option for a "basic" drive setup. I want to run drives individually and independently, no RAID and no JBOD but I don't see the option, I have no experience with OMV or the Debian commands so I would like a simple or step by step explanation, all I see when I want to setup a drive is: -Stripe -Mirror -Lineal I've tried to do some digging but found nothing, maybe it's because I'm a real noob at OMV

Mornings. I'd like to share my experience here. I needed like most of us a cheap off-site storage solution for private use. I ended up with a raspberry pi 3, and a 5TB usb external disk with it's own powersupply. I simply loaded OpenMediaVault into the memorycard, and tada - I had a 5TB storage machine offsite working at sufficient speeds! I did however end up connecting a identical 5TB drive, giving me well, 5+5. It's not perfect, it's not super redundant. But for the cost, it rocks the socks out of most things.

Hi, I have a NAS, (specs below), and i installed OpenMediaVault 4 to it. Without the HDD plugged in (just the usb drive), everything working fine. But when i switch it off and plug in the hdd which i wanna use for storage, the boot stops at a certain point. If i boot without the hdd plugged in, and plug it after it loaded, the system works fine. The hdd had been formatted, and there are personal files on it, nothing "bootable". Tried changing the boot order in bios, but nothing. I think maybe the grub loader trying to search for boot files on the hdd, and not the usb pendrive, which is where the openmediavault had been installed. But that`s just my thoughts. I`m not really familiar with linux systems. I linked a video in which i boot with the drive, and it stucks. Thanks for the answers, guys. Specs: ASUS J3455M-E with Intel® Celeron® Quad-Core J3455 SoC onboard Processor 1 WD 500GB HDD (i will by 2 WD 2TB NAS drive in the future) 4 GB DDR3

Hey everyone, I'd like some help picking out a NAS OS. Here's a list of thing's I'd like to do with this NAS. 1. Provide ~9TB of reliable storage. Probably redundant like RAID 1 2. Be able to access files not just on windows computers but also android phones (+ if it works on apple but I dont really care) 3. Access files remotely if I were on another network. 4. Be able to stream the files locally and remotely (videos and music) 5. Potentially install games on the NAS. This one is least important but would be great. I'm currently looking into things like FreeNAS, Rockstor, Openmediavault, etc. I'm not sure about FreeNAS since the RAM requirements are so high. I do want to use ECC regardless of OS, but FreeNAS needs more than the others. Openmediavault is enticing but it doesn't support BTRFS. I think Rockstor is relatively new and I haven't heard much about it so I'm not sure how reliable it is. Another option is UnRAID, I know it's paid but if it solves all the concerns I guess it's worth it. Also is there a way to share multiple RAID 1 configs as a single folder/drive. I think FreeNAS can do this with the datasets but I don't have experience with it so I'm not sure.

Hi, It makes one week that I'm searching and making some tests but I can't figure out which would be the better solution. I'm looking for a device(either a standalone box, either a custom thing), which would cover: Raid(mirroring), with 2 disk(far enough for me) Share with windows Share with Mac Act as time machine Allow me to downloads bittorents files Allowing me to specify some seeding options(duration+ratio) Allow me to specify at the moment that I add the torrent, in which subdirectory it has to download the file Allow me to connect the NAS to the television through HDMI and present those media folders(XBMC/...) (= act as HTPC) I know that usually, it's not recommended to have an HTPC + NAS on the same machine, but in my case: I feel like having two different devices is slower than access directly on the disk I've not huge needs, either for NAS, either for the HTPC part It will take less space, less money, less power to have this at one place I can live if the System crash(as far as some shares(not the one used by the HTPC) are not impacted Currently I've a Synology, which gives access to my television(that is not so smart), but I've to transcode most of the format, which puts the NAS on his knees. For now I checked: Synology: Doesn't have the HTPC part QNAP (in my case, the TS-253): Seems to fill my needs, but it looks like expensive compared to the same hardware that I can get with the same money FreeNas: Currently in my tests with a Virtualmachine, I got a lot of errors, and I wasn't able to create the HTPC part, in addition I'm not very familiar with FreeBSD OpenMediaVault: I wasn't able to test the HTPC part, since it requires a Graphic acceleration that I wasn't able to setup with VirtualBox, I had issues with the installation of transmission(Errors on activation). So: Do you see any other distribution/system/box? Any advice on what to choose? Thank you very much for your time