Raspberry Pi OMV 6 NAS

[@aussierobbie5176]

Hi everyone brilliant video just an update to anyone installing OMV6 if you find it will not install took me hours of looking but found the answer make sure when you look for what version of PIOS make sure its NOT the BOOKWORM version it has to be the BULLSEYE version there is no warning a problem will occur good luck everybody

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for sharing this.

[@johnrobertsmith9914]

This really an important point which many future Raspberry Pi newbies will ask. The script fails asking for Buster or Bullseye (I used PiOS LITE 64-bit). To clarify, I need to rewrite the SD card with another PiOS. Which one should I go for? (The duck I asked beside the river Thames blew me a raspberry.)

[@ExplainingComputers]

@@johnrobertsmith9914 You should be fine with Buster -- or what Raspberry Pi now supply as "Raspberry Pi OS Legacy". And it must also be without a desktop.

[@edandkathyotoole6521]

I should have read this before I tried. After my tail and reading this it worked just fine. Thanks to you and Christopher.

[@welshbikepackingadventures]

Comprehensively explained and easy to understand, even for me. Thank you Chris

[@chromerims]

Really appreciate this. Rethinking my storage, and this now is part of my consideration set. Kindest regards. P.s. nice touch with the ducks 8:47.

[@lko2181cp]

hard not to love ducks, unless you stumble into their restroom somehow...

[@christianwetzel1862]

Worked like a charm, thank you so much for this excellent guide! OpenMediaVault is great, finally no more fiddling with mounting, Samba configurations or Windows access issues. Additional hint for those wanting to connect an existing NTFS formatted drive: 1) Make sure the drive label contains no blank space. 2) In the "Filesystem" configuration step, use OpenMediaVault's "Mount" instead of "Create" function. 3) In the "Shared Folders" step, set the relative path to "/".

[@josiahmoorhouse8036]

What timing! I just ran into a pair of Pi 4 2GB, and was trying to come up with a suitable project. Thank you so much for this well thought out and simple to follow tutorial, Chris! You truly have a gift for imparting knowledge.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Good luck!

[@Builtbypete]

Where did you find them. Everywhere is out of stock

[@josiahmoorhouse8036]

@@Builtbypete Stripped them out of dead Helium miners.

[@PCman50]

Raspberry Pi's are rather difficult to get as of 06/2022. So here's an option to consider.. I opted to buy used for $30 on eBay a Wyse Thin Client with 1.6Ghz Dual core CPU, 4gb RAM, and 16gb SSD. It it has multiple USB-3 ports that allowed me to plug in two external 2tb SATA drives via USB. The thin client at idle uses only 3 watts and under full load about 9 watts. So this unit can easily run 24/7 for pennies a day. As always I appreciate your excellent tutorials.

[@Anthony-ry8lo]

Sir. I have been a fan for years. I truly enjoy your videos, as they are clear and explain the theory as well as the end goal in a way that is easy to comprehend and flow. To many you tubers spend to much time just filling the videos with fluff to run the clock out. Or spend endless hrs’ talking about how intelligent they are and never getting to the point of the project. I have made many of your projects, and enjoy them all. A few years ago I set up OMV on a Pi 4 via one of your tutorials. One thing I have always wanted to do was replace the USB drive with a RAID system. OMV will not let you RAID Usb drives. Put the new Pi 5 has that PCIe slot so I was thinking,, Hint Hint! Thanks and keep up the great work! Tony

[@helgeandreasvuolab605]

Hi Chris. Great video on how to install Openmediavault 6 on Raspberry pi 4. I really enjoyed it. I would also have liked to see a video of you, where you explain about firewall setup (how to configure on Openmediavault 6), ZFS setup on 64 bit OMV 6 OS, docker and portainer setup. Because you are so good at teaching data stuff. Have tried to find information about firewall configuration but there is very little about it. And about securing OMV 6. Thank you very much for explaining OMV 6. Takk!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for your support, and the video ideas. Noted in my list. :)

[@colinlloyd43]

I really do not normally comment or suscribe to stuff on KZbin but I have made an exception here. This presentation is brilliant. The bite size chunks make it easy to follow and your voice is clear and understandable for a person like me with hearing issues. Thanks Chris.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks Colin. :)

[@victor0845]

Chris, you're a godsend. I watch other's videos for a "rough cut" at what I'm attempting, and then look your channel up. Your video-quality and narration set you apart. Clear and spare enunciation and that British wry humour serve to put the listener at ease. No squinting to read poorly chosen fonts or hand-draw diagrams in stomach-churning colours. Invariably you choose sane options for any software you're explaining or demonstrating thus saving me inadvertently making lunatic selection(s). God does not necessarily always protect fools and newbies! Keep the excellent work up and ignore those saying otherwise. Enjoy Summer 2023 knowing that your work is valued

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for your kind feedback, appreciated. :)

[@maffysdad]

After watching this a number of times, considering the implications, pros and cons of a purchased built NAS vs a RPi NAS, I've purchased a 8TB Drive in the Prime Members Deals we've had the last couple of days to use as a main drive, so I can use that as a the backup, reports are the disk itself is reliable and of the old style CMR, but until that arrives I'll practice with a smaller 120GB SSD I have laying around... Thanks again for making this come across as a project even I can manage! : Update to my attempt:- 1 - In Chris's Read More, following the instructions, read ahead before you follow them as at the time I write this (even though it was mentioned in the video) the note about the RPi3 is AFTER the part you need it to be, so you may accidentality complete a OMV install (which is ages long) before realising you needed to insert an important command, so having to restart the process. 2 - This can all be done headless by adding the appropriate files which is well documented, and can be undertaken either manually or in the RPi imager which Chris explains in on of his earlier videos.

[@donkink3114]

This the earliest I've ever got to watch one of your videos, thanks for the update.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for being in the early crowd!

[@PS_Tube]

Greetings Chris ! Wish you an amazing week ahead. It's so nice of you make update videos for previous projects in accordance with modern technology changes.

[@MichelMorinMontreal]

Greetings to you! If you ever wondered whether your 'old' presentations had been revisited, you'll be happy to know that they definitely have! For several months, I've been tinkering with a Nextcloud installation on my Raspberry Pi 4 (in an Argon One V2 box, of course). It works, it's pretty, but there's always a little something that gets in the way. On reflection, I watched this video again and installed OMV 7. Everything's humming along beautifully, no problems at all, we're not talking about it any more! Thank you so much!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Cool.

[@---yc7so]

Hi Chris, this may be useful to others: I've tried an upgrade straight from my OMV 5 on Raspberry PI 4 8GB installation. From terminal i wrote omv-release-upgrade and after not much time I got it upgraded to OMV 6. All of my OMV 5 customizations has remained functional.(Docker, Portainer etc) all shares and services(NFS, Samba, SSH, minidlna)...I'm very glad that nothing has gone wrong!!! I was pretty aware about risks involved. But, here we are!. Thank for your inspiring job!!!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Very useful feedback -- I'm glad all went well. Thanks for sharing here.

[@Ray2Jerry]

I followed a previous Explaining Computers guide to set up OMV on Raspberry Pi 4 and it was one of the best projects I had ever attempted! I had tried many different home file servers before and they either didn't work right or were really slow (and ran on older power-hungry desktop PCs). I gave this project a shot with a Pi 4 (back when they weren't more rare and valuable than diamonds) and a regular 5TB external hard drive and it's the best file server I've ever used. It's whisper quiet and sips on electricity, sitting nicely tucked away behind the router. It does everything a $600 NAS would do and more. I will admit OMV can be a bit overwhelming at first to set up, but if you follow the Explaining Computers videos you'll learn everything you need to get it up and running. Thanks Chris!!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Great to hear of your OMV success.

[@moneypits]

Timely as I'm about to (attempt!) to move from 5 to 6. One extremely useful thing to set up with OMV is adding a second disk and configuring rsync to copy data from one drive to another. Very handy should one drive fail and no need to faff around with RAID. Also makes migrating to larger disks fairly seamless.

[@haydenc2742]

OMV has come a LONG way in it's functionality, easy of use, and with new gigabit ethernet much more usable bandwidth for being able to move data over the network There are plugins that can also be VERY useful but it needs the community addon module Very nice howto! Keep em coming!!!!

[@mr.techie8565]

Chris, this video was released just in time! I set up a Linux server with an old, but still very useful, PC a couple of days ago. I want to use it for many things, such as remote access VMs (which I've been setting up), but a NAS is at the top of my list. This tutorial looks like it should work on a Linux PC as well. I'm going to install it in a VM that has a bridged network adapter. Thank you so much, and you are so good at ExplainingComputers. Have a great week, and I can't wait to see next week's video!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Yes, you can run OMV on an x86-64 PC -- indeed there are images directly available. Should work in a VM, although I've never tried it. :)

[@catalinpatru6791]

I can confirm you can run OMV in a VBox VM environment, with "bridged network" for guest VM, to have the same IP class. Also you may have to play with the storage drive that is recommmended to be allocated only for the OMV VM.

[@ExplainingComputers]

@@catalinpatru6791 Thanks for this, very useful info.

[@anon_y_mousse]

This is a good tutorial, definitely one to save. I may setup a NAS this way when I finally move into the new house.

[@jls9225]

I'll say it again, Thank God for the open source community. Thank You Christopher for explaining to us how to use this awesome technology. Have an awesome day and awesome weekend. Another complete Sunday for me. Thank You Christopher, As Always, Be Smart and Stay Safe.

[@kjamison5951]

This is what I have been waiting for! Thank you Chris, you are a star! EDIT: Time to consider a housing to 3D print for the NAS…

[@microdesigns2000]

Such a nice and simple and complete video! For a couple of years I've used OMV5 on a Rock64 with a SATA hat, two WD red drives as RAID. All that was inspired by your videos. What I never got to work was remote access. I tried everything I could understand to get a VPN server set up, but to no avail. I sure would love a video about that!

[@ExplainingComputers]

I keep thinking about doing such a video on port forwarding for external access. Noted! :)

[@Yoshi-sp]

@@ExplainingComputers I will keep my eyes peeled for that one, thanks!

[@bfapple]

On the topic of RAID: how do I get around OMV6's refusal to configure a RAID using my x4 HDD USB enclosure. It seems that OMV6 is set up to prevent GUI users from setting up a software RAID when using USB-attached disks.

[@microdesigns2000]

@@bfapple Yes OMV does not support USB raid anymore because it was apparently unstable. You will need a 4-port SATA adapter.

[@choro76]

Brilliant video Chris! I've been using an RPi4 4Gb since omv5 and recently upgraded to omv6. It's been going strong for... iirc for a little less than 3 years, and of course my first go was because of your 1st omv video! Thank you!

[@chrismorgan441]

Excellent video, Chris, as usual. Sadly, there are few ducks near my current residence... simple pleasures are definitely some of the best. Be safe.

[@tonywalker2372]

Once again, brilliant. Your clear, concise no frills tutorials are like a breath of fresh air. Thank you.

[@tpobrienjr]

Excellent, fast-paced presentation. Thank heaven for the pause key.

[@spikekent]

I remember your OMV5 video, great to have an updated version. Keep the awesome videos coming Chris.

[@johng7rwf419]

First rate tutorial Chris, perfect timing as I'm about to update features on my shack network. Many thanks, J

[@petedawson8257]

Another crystal clear video Chris, thanks. Might be worth mentioning that not everyone keeps Workgroup, as the default, but i guess if they know how to change that in the first place they dont need telling again!😀

[@abendroid]

Love the OMV OS as a cheap free NAS solution. I have been using it on an old Intel Celeron PC with no issues.

[@voidepi]

Absolutely amazing video for someone like me, who is very new to Linux! I used this video to set up OMV6 on my Raspberry Pi with great success! I've been just using it as a LAN server to share one HDD between a few different Windows 10 machines and it's been wonderful! However, I ran into a huge problem today! I logged into OMV and it mentioned I had 60-some updates to do. I thought it would be fine to go ahead and do those. Everything updated, got an error that through searching the web, I resolved by simply clearing my cookies. Now everything looks the exact same as how I had it set up before. NONE of my machines can access my shared folder anymore! None of my settings seem to have changed, I'm able to access my Pi via SSH and log into OMV through my browser, but I cannot get any of my machines to connect to my Pi or see my shared folder anymore. Did something perhaps change in the past few months that would necessitate me changing... settings?

[@jacobnoori]

As always, your guides are exceptional, Chris. Thank you for another video!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for watching!

[@watsoft70]

Thanks again for a simple and effective presentation on something that might be hard to grasp. I have to say that while they came pre-configured OpenMediaVault on the Pi appears to be a better piece of software than the firmware installed on the low end commercial NAS units that I own. I am sure it will be my preferred choice when it comes to replace them!

[@Axl_Pose]

Excellent timing with this video as I have been pondering the update for a few weeks. I've been running OMV5 for about a year on a pi4 2gb. It has been on pretty much constantly and never had any issues with it, it just sits in the corner doing its thing. Good to know about end of support for 5 as it will push me to make the upgrade.

[@martinwilkinson2344]

Another informative and confidence-inspiring video that makes me want to go out and buy stuff!

[@ericwood3709]

Perfect. I had been meaning to upgrade my OMV from 5 to 6, and now it is done!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Great to hear! :)

[@mikefinn2101]

Chris this was so informative and so helpful in understanding more on NAS, I thank you from the bottom my heart, I am grateful to sharing more on Pi. can't for more videos. Love to watch your channel on of my favorites.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks Mike.

[@CCoburn3]

A magical episode -- plenty of the magic of filmmaking and the magic of computing. Also very informative.

[@wizardling4709]

Cheers for a helpful and entertaining channel. I also like ducks :-)

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for your support, most appreciated. :)

[@keithmiller9665]

Another excellent OMV video Chris. I followed your OMV 4 video from a few years back and I had a couple of Pi 4s running (each with 4 SSDs using powered USB hub) for quite awhile based on it. I liked the low electricity cost but found performance as a media center streaming movies / TV to be a bit underwhelming. I replaced recently with a QNAP TS-451+ 8GB, 2x2TB SSDs and 2x4TB HDDs. I prefer the control OMV gives over the QNAP TS-451+ QTS software but the OMV confirmation dialogs after everything drive me crazy. This is exactly why I stopped using Windows. OMV really need to make the confirmation dialogs optional. Great to know a new version of OMV is available, perhaps I will repurpose a spare PC with disks and give OMV 6 a go. Thanks Chris. Keith

[@HKey_Root]

Am I pleased you retain these videos for posterity. Just needed to revisit this to resuscitate and existing NAS which hasn't been used for a good while. Thank you. Now I will attempt the latest Banana NAS.

[@ArniesTech]

Just as I wanted to setup a NAS at home. Chris, your mind reading skills are scary 💪😄

[@RoboNuggie]

Thanks!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for your support. And following our tweet exchange, I've just e-mailed a contact I have at Orange Pi. :)

[@RoboNuggie]

@@ExplainingComputers Excellent! Lets hope it bears fruit.... :-)

[@orleydoss3171]

Thank you for the update! I will have to up my current software soon and hopefully just map the same drive w/o having to modify much.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Yes, you should be able to take the drive from an OMV5 NAS and use it with minimal setup/changes.

[@gilbertserrano6319]

Thank you for this very clear tutorial, found my old pi3b+ and a couple of hdds, will be building this right now! Also thanks for the tinyurl!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Good luck! :)

[@vladimirvlad2563]

It's a pain to build this with 3b+.use 4b 2gb ram at least.i did it with the latter but it's not worth it.better use a x86-64 or better a Synology 218

[@kevinsheppard6085]

Thank you excellent as always, I really look forward to you doing these each week, The only thing I wish was that the Pi was more available. Love, money and first born child is not enough to get one at the moment. You have given me so many things to try when I finally do get one.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for this Kevin. Go to an official Pi vendor -- eg Adafruit or Pimoroni, and click the "notify me" link on the (eg) Pi 4 product page. Stocks are still arriving every few weeks or so, but last only hours. So unless you get on the waiting list, and at fast when they arrive, you will not get one.

[@johnrobertsmith9914]

I finally got this to work and it's great! I can now back up all my data and also that data is available to any device connected to my local network (and that means multiple computers and phones by wifi too). However, it has been a bit of a struggle, which I would like to share, in the hope that this may help others. 1) Install Legacy Bullseye and NOT the current Bookworm version. I chose 64-bit Legacy LITE for a Raspberry Pi 4 (8GB). 2) Most annoying was that the script would stop with this error: "openmediavault package failed to install or in a bad state". 2a) I checked the SSD on Windows, and found the drive would not show at all. Not faulty, but need to be assigned a drive letter by using Disk Manager. I then formatted the drive. Transferred the SSD to a Linux machine and formatted again with ext4 file system. 2b) Instead of typing the tinyurl command, I instead typed the github command given in the acompanying documentation link. That did the trick. In the future I would like to explore a rsync incremental backup method. Bye for now, John Robert Smith.

[@montanaboom1]

Excellent tutorial for the newest version! Thanks so much!

[@RollerCoasterLineProductions]

This video is just as good as your OMV5 video, which was the video that inspired me to get a PiNAS. I didn't realize there was an update. Updating my Pi4 was no problem, the new OMV recognized my old shared folders, with a little bit of tweaking but installing OMV6 in Proxmox VM didn't end so well. I lost all my data, its impossible to mount the HDD wo wiping it first, then creating and mounting.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for this. Sorry to hear that you've had problems.

[@RollerCoasterLineProductions]

It’s fine. It’s been roughly 3 years since I set up my NAS and I seem to remember going thru this kind of thing before on the proxmox OMV NAS.

[@wenbellebuck]

You, sir, are the man. Thank you for all the videos. VERY helpful information.

[@LeslieLanagan]

I’ve never had to use SMB before, but I’m intrigued. I just watched a Windows machine read an EXT4 drive like a boss.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for this. It is OMV (Linux) on the Pi that is accessing the SSD at the file system level. Windows is just accessing or saving data from a network share, so it unaware of the file system being used.

[@srvuk]

I've used OMV for years and it has always been reliable for what it does and the configuration options available. I suspect that when the next variation of the Pi (or its killer) comes along then the Pi4 will likely still have use as a NAS. Great guide, done in your usual exacting way to avoid confusion and very useful indeed.

[@chriholt]

Clearly explained as always. I learned about OMV 5 from you and set it up on my Pi 3, which worked like a champ. Unfortunately, with only a 100Mbps network connection on that Pi, large file transfers were painfully slow. OMV 6 looks amazing, and it gives me yet one more reason to get a Pi 4 :).

[@ExplainingComputers]

Greetings Chris.

[@PhG1961]

Great content ! As usual ! And at the same time very entertaining on a rainy Sunday afternoon !

[@michaeltaylor4817]

Thank you so much I needed. Just installed omv 6 today.

[@ExplainingComputers]

You can say no more than that. Wonderful! :)

[@bawtreerd]

This is essential for a beginner like myself Have managed to get this running thanks to your great presentation of the subject

[@geolisadrag-racing2349]

Hi Christopher love your videos use them like a PC and SBC library. I was looking for a NAS newbie-ish video, here on your channel? Something that would explain what a NAS is and why someone might need or want one. Do you have anything like that? i looked and don't see one, but thought i'd ask incase i missed it. Thanks & thanks again for all that you put into these videos.... I have many medical limitations and spend most of my time in bed. Content creators, like yourself, mean so much to viewers like myself. Googling and searching through online magazines and forums is challenging for me and the disability software i use; so, - KZbin is my go to reference department for everything. Your channel(s) delivers SO much information and in this easily consumed format. This is NOT my only medicine; lol., but definitely my FAVORITE! Your videos are fact filled and fun. They are entertainment therapy for my mood, distraction therapy for my pain and provide the much needed exercise for my mind! Sorry this is long, but I usually watch these videos recorded and played through a VLC playlist. Since i was on your channel today, searching for a particular video, i wanted to take this time to tell you how grateful i am. Thanks SO much ~ ♿Lisn🕹 PS : although i watch recorded, i am a KZbin Red Premium subscriber_ i get help going to my subscription channels every few months to thumb up new content_ i always use the share links and share these video with a community of disabled technology, retro tech/gaming and woodworking enthusiasts and we all always use your affiliate links! 'Can't wait to see you hit 1 million subs here & are excited to see the new channel grow. ~♿Lisa📺

[@joseffistus3058]

Very comprehensive. Thank you very much, Chris.

[@MK-ni6gs]

Excellent al always, thank you for this update OMV6!

[@Antonio-fl3nr]

Nice, so clearly explained. I'm seriously trying this. But won't talk to ducks again, because some horrible happened to me last time I did. Thanks, Chris.

[@elmestguzman3038]

This was a great project. I used it for a travel media center with plex installed in a docker container.

[@Ibrahimdude]

Third Place....yay And How Exactly 9:00PM (Malaysia Timezone) Every Video Uploaded, Nice Chris :)

[@ExplainingComputers]

Bronze medal awarded! :) Greetings on another Sunday.

[@neilthomas6042]

An interesting video, it shows how versatile a Pi is. I haven’t got a Pi and should get one. It will probably be a Pi 400 as I like the form factor.

[@brianwood5220]

Thanks Christopher, Great video and very informative too.

[@heyderaliyev8976]

This channel is useful in many ways❤❤

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks 😀

[@heyderaliyev8976]

@@ExplainingComputers Sir, could you please, make a video about how to connect Pi OMV NAS from outside network (with port forwarding or else), because there are few confusing videos about it on KZbin, but I believe that your video about it will describe easy reliable and straightforward method. Thank you in advance 🙏 🙏👍👍

[@OneSpaceyBoy]

Funny timing i was setting up open media vault in a vm and was wondering why the SMB file sharing wasnt working. I think i would have looked for a while until i find that i have to save the enable setting first. Great video!

[@mikiethebikie]

Thanks Chris, a informative presentation as usual.

[@Colin_Ames]

Excellent explanation, as always. Thanks Chris.

[@Matrxmonky]

"...now go to the park and talk to some ducks." I do believe we've heard Mr. Barnatt give the most precise, technical instruction ever, gents. To the duck ponds!

[@danmanx2]

Expertly explained. Nice job! I am going to do something like this for my wife to access files. Please keep up the great work Chris!

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks, will do!

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[@insanemainstream3633]

I had a Pi 3 lying around and was wondering what to do with it. Problem solved! Thank you Chris.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Enjoy! :)

[@whitneyeaton5585]

well done, i appreciate your training and explaining of not only what your doing, but why! thanks. Great channel.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks. :)

[@piraspberry4811]

paar keer overnieuw moeten maken, maar door de duidelijke uitleg. lukt het om er een mooie nas van gemaakt te hebben, Dank je wel voor uw uitleg

[@nahrafqifahs]

as always… my main source of all linux… thanks prof 🙏

[@davidrobinson4797]

Wanted to give you a shout out from across the pond in Northern Indiana. Google photos as you know, does not offer unlimited picture and video upload as of June of 2021, so I have needed this to move pictures off of our device for local storage, thanks. The remote access will also be welcome. Hooking this up to a 6TB hard drive.

[@kurtweber162]

As always well presented, explained and easy to follow, even for a bonehead like myself. thanks again.

[@ROBdk97]

I am using samba on my pi for my NAS. Probably the better choice for me because my pi is running a lot of other things too. But I have a short Question: Does it matter that my SSDs on my PI are formatted as NTFS? Does this matter in any way?

[@ExplainingComputers]

Using NTFS will not matter, although performance may be a little slower than when using a native Linux file system. But you have the advantage that the SSD will be readable in Windows.

[@ROBdk97]

@@ExplainingComputers thx for the answer. Yeah, that was my intention that it will be readable in windows.

[@simmo1024]

Great Video. There is apparently also a LUKS plugin for OMV that enables encryption of drives. This may very well be an good option when I get around to replacing my current NAS solution in a couple of years... Cheers

[@Zatanus]

You did it again, man. 👍👍👍 It would be great if you made another video about OMV explaining some way to set up a personal cloud service like Synology-Drive for example. Something that automatically helps us to make backups to protect us from Ransomware. I've been doing it so far with FTP under OMV, but there might be a better and more versatile method.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for this. I may indeed do a follow-up along the lines you suggest.

[@DaveVaughan2004]

Very good video and I found it just at the right time as I had a spare Pi and drive and needed additional network storage. Many thanks. ATB, Dave

[@6581punk]

My NAS is a Logic Case SC-4824 with Ryzen 5, SAS card and SAS expander card, 10GBit network. It's also pretty quiet once fitting in Noctura fans. Wished I had built it ages ago instead of using Drobos and then a PC in a standard PC case.

[@markharrisllb]

Thanks

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for you support, appreciated. :)

[@justsomeguy1669]

In my case I had OMV5 previously installed on an Odroid HC2 system (with the help of one of Chris's videos from a couple of years back) and needed to upgrade to OMV6. The process is the same for RPi. Probably the best option is to wipe the OMV5 installation and do a clean installation of OMV6, but I didn't think it worth the trouble. I opted for upgrade. To do this, you first need to login to the RPi (or Odroid in my case), either directly or with SSH, VNC or other remote login client. Then, launch the Terminal application if you are not using SSH (which I was). First, execute the command "sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade". Reboot if needed. Next, run the command "omv-release-upgrade". This takes a very long time to complete, perhaps about 30 minutes. Then do the "sudo apt update && sudo apt full-upgrade" command again and reboot. Login to the IP address for the RPi/OMV from a web browser (you will need the OMV login credentials, which could be different than the RPi). There will be a yellow notification bar in the main window asking you whether to apply (pending) updates. Accept, and wait for it to complete, which takes a couple of minutes. That's it. Upgrade from OMV5 to 6 complete. Seems to have worked fine for me.

[@ExplainingComputers]

A very useful post -- good to know that this works. Thanks for sharing.

[@stephenhargreaves9011]

Hmm - a system drive AND a storage drive. I don't use OMV (I set up my NAS manually), but it works fine booting from one partition on the SSD, and sharing the rest as the NAS. No separate system drive needed. Just a separate system partition. And it works a treat. I have three other PIs booting from folders on the NAS partition, as well as my videos, music and pictures being available across the network.

[@billygamer3941]

Wonderfully clear presentation since it is well organised and well visualised. Thank you! I am planning to make a NAS using my RPi3.

[@ExplainingComputers]

Good luck. :)

[@ms7165]

Super tutorial. Something else to spend my hard-earned money on!

[@ovalwingnut]

Masterful demonstration, Sire. I am unfamiliar with this program but I would like to try it myself. On a side note re: O or o. I do wish the Linux world could agree on "more unique" appearing characters. Example: Zeros and O's. It can be quite subjective to discern which one is which. Especially on the Inter-webs. I would love to see a "slashed-zero" implemented across the lands. Please Sire, apply your royal pressures throughout our kingdom... Cheers

[@ExplainingComputers]

Thanks for this. And I agree, slashed zeros were very useful and clear.

[@Mark_is]

Can't wait to see next videos wrap up! ;^)

[@SuperCacahuete93]

Bonjour, votre vidéo est très bien expliquée et très intéressante comme toujours. Merci

[@badrulhasan9935]

Great video chris , i actually didnt comment in your vids for a long time coz i was actually not using my raspberry pi for a while but now i wanna use it again , so i am back ! :)

[@ExplainingComputers]

I'm glad you're back -- and it seems you may have a Pi project! :)

[@badrulhasan9935]

@@ExplainingComputers yep

[@storetrollet404]

Very nice indeed! Thank you for sharing. I certainly have to buy me a Pi4 now! And could you please follow up with how to connect to the share and use OVM from Linux, Android and Ios? You explain things so well!

[@kirkmessinger3464]

Great video, as usual. Just a couple of small suggestions to make it even better. 1. Clicking the settings button on Raspberry Pi Manager appears to allow pre-configuring the boot set-up to allow ssh and wifi from the first boot. 2. I'd suggest moving the paragraph regarding executing sudo rm -f /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link for Pi 3 installations to a place above the paragraph regarding updating after first boot. I'm just about to rebuild my os card, having not followed that last instruction and being unable to connect to wifi. (edit) I see in the video that the order for updating and installing OMV6 is clearer. Also, while the installation of Raspi Lite can be configured to enable ssh and wifi from the start at first boot, the installation of OMV6 requires an ethernet connection, and won't work with wifi, at least initially. I'm researching further.

[@chokolokoloko]

Hey! I'm planning on doing this trough wifi only as I don't have access to the router, so please update any new findings! Cheers.

[@ChavdarIvanov4]

Perhaps it i worth mentioning that this script seems to work on any Debian-based system, in my case - amd64. Couple of days ago I setup my WireGuard endpoint on a XCP-NG Debian-11 guest and as it wasn't yet put to full use, decided to try adding OMV. Everything worked as expected, with the exception that I wasn't able to ssh to the machine with my pre-OMV account - even if it was left as before and I was able to logon the console via the Xorchestra interface. I haven't configured OMV yet, I am still to add some disks to the VM, but the WireGuard functionality was kept (as expected). The only other minor problem was that I had Apache2 previously running, the script configures nginx and fails to start it for obvious reasons (so I had to disable apache2 and restart nginx). I don't intend to switch away from TrueNAS, but it is worth playing a bit with OMV, I guess; it might be someday useful on some lower-end hardware.

[@monchiabbad]

Ever since the raspberry Pi is bootable from a usb-stick I have been using usb-sticks. I also had my running a lot cooler when the user and root filesystem is running of a usb-stick. Even my first Pi ( Pi 1B ) I used a small micro-sdcard for the boot partition and put the root filesystem on an external usb-stick or drive which also accelerated my system without needing to purchase expensive sdcards.

[@420bobby69]

Very cool! I don't have a Raspberry PI, but I'm considering converting my current PC to a dual-purpose NAS + video capture machine when I finally upgrade. Would be cool to have the expanded storage and also use the GPU to record my desktop without a performance hit on the new machine. IDK how feasible it is, but it sounds like it would be a fun project!

[@ExplainingComputers]

OMV is certainly available to run on a standard PC. Top of head, the easiest way to do what you describe could be a dual boot -- with OMV as the default, but choosing another OS for the video capture work (having closed down OMV, which you would reboot afterwards).

[@towelful42]

Good video. I always regarded that as the American pronunciation of router. Although you’ve probably covered it before I’d like to see details of how you made the base, especially where you got the bits from.

[@edmais74]

Fantastic video, many thanks ! all worked smoothly to setup this elegant solution :-)

[@mysteriousboozebunny6534]

Neat. Just gonna have to save up a few months for a Pi now.