How to make a Raspberry Pi NAS - A NAS-Berry that Runs Open Media Vault

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Hi,
Can you elaborate on the message about an installed desktop environment?
I - think - I did not install deliberately. I use the Pi in a headless situation.
Is also vnc an issue?
Why is desktop an issue?

Regards,

Ton

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Hi, I installed the backup plugin but cannot see where I get to choose when to run the jobs.

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Hello. Just to test, I ran it on my Rpi 3.
Image utility kept hitting a disk error while writing uSD.
So I wrote the PiOs lite 64 with Rufus…
Everything works fine, but the third line (your wget) bleats :

Omvinstall : only debian 10 (Buster) and 11 (Bullseye) are supported, exiting …

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@Kris131767 Some time ago I setup Open Media Vault on a Rpi 3, and it worked nicely till it didn’t.
Think there had been a update to Open Media Vault, as I could not get it to install again.
Ended up using Samba and MiniDLNA to stream my videos.

The guide uses a Rpi 4 and Lite Version install of the OS via the Raspberry Pi Imager installer.
The install script will complain if a Desktop Environment is installed.

This is most likely because Open Media Vault is not compatible with the new version of Pi OS. Debian version: 12 (bookworm). Scroll down the download image web page to the legacy area and download the legacy version.

Regards
Jim

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Thanks James.

I realised that indeed I downloaded the wrong version (bookworm)
I couldn’t use Rpi imager for some reason.

I downloaded 11 and then it was ok, however it fails install of OMV.
It always throws an error because I think SSHD doesn’t get installed.

It seems the new version of Rpi imager wants you to explicitly enable SSHD.

I need to try again but will take your advice of getting an Rpi 4. I was hoping to try it first with an existing rpi3 to see if it’s worth getting a pi 4.

Thanks, 73.

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Sounds like you have gone through some of the things I experienced with OMV.
In the end a dedicated NAS seemed a better option to me.
(I have a Synology NAS which just works every time I want to use it)

Thought my problems with OMV may have just been me, maybe not, given what you have experienced.

It may work with a Rpi 4, but then again maybe not. I based that on the guide from Tim using a Rpi 4.
In any case I cannot trust the integrity of a OMV NAS based on my experience. Rpi OS & OMV updates should not adversely affect what I have stored on the NAS.

All the best
Jim

PS others may have had a better experience than me.

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Success!
After explicitly enabling SSHD in Imager, and ticking to “apply custom settings”, OMV installs with much noise.
Took ages, must be the lower CPU munch on the Rpi 3.

Got it all going and SMB runs fine, but I can’t write to the share in the NTFS folder (yet).

At least, it runs now, thanks James.

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@Kris131767 Good to hear.
If I remember right, the permissions to write did not work at first when I had it running.
There was a process to go through to get it all working correctly.

Comparing OMV with a Synology, a WD and a Seagate NAS, all of which I have used to varying degrees. OMV was the most complex to setup and then when it stopped working after an upgrade and would not install again, I was pretty pissed with it.

Maybe I should give it another try with a Rpi 5 (when I can get one).

Glad you can at least load it.
Cheers
Jim

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I concur James,

I’ll probably end up getting a decent Synology NAS.
I’m a bit new to NAS world, my wife would like to have Plex running and I’m not sure where to start :slight_smile:
Lots of conflicting opinions and “consensus”…

I wanted to see what it was like with an Rpi and it seems much ado about not much, headaches I don’t need.

Tnx, 73.

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Hey James,

Thought it worth an update.
Looked at OMV setup again and noticed that.a few things have changed slightly with OMV since the article.
Mainly, I had to explicitly add my NTFS shared folder at Services → SMB/CIFS → Shares :
(I can’t see this step in the article, just before optionally adding RAID)
and save that, everything came good then.

Considering the measly RPi 3 I’m running it on, I’m getting between 11 and 12 MB/s, which I’m happy with for now- considering an old Iomedia NAS thing I was using barely does 4 MB/s.

So, there it is, wonder how long before an update will break it :slight_smile:
Oh, I installed File Manager on my Android and now I can finally access the NAS from my Galaxy…

B rgds
Kris

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Glad to hear its working good.
Rpi is an amazing product for what it can do and its low cost, relatively.

Cheers
Jim

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Hi! I’m trying to config my raspy to use it outside home, but im a little bit stuck in the ip configuration, which ip version should i use? IPv4 or IPv6? And what about the netmask, because the software says it’s necessary.

Thank u so much for the help, greetings from Mexico.

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Hi Jonathan,

Welcome to the forum!!

Port forwarding is but one of the ways to access the drive over the net, I’d check out VPN’s as well: Access shared drive from Internet - General - openmediavault

Your netmask and Ip address can be found in your router settings.

PS: Opening your NAS (and network) can be dangerous!
Liam

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Thanks for all these excellent guides.

Decided to try Open Media Vault again, my previous experience was probably due to using a Pi 3B+ and not configuring it correctly.

Today I followed the guide but was not able to see the shared folder on a PC.
There is a step missing in the guide.

In Configuring OpenMediaVault Step 5: Enable Network Services you need to click Share and enter the folder name. When I did this it worked nicely.

Regards
Jim

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Thanks for the feeback Jim, i’ve captured a note for our support team to update the guide :ok_hand:

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Hi guys
Im following your steps to install OMV on a raspberry pi 4 running the legacy lite OS that you recommend. During the install after running your command the install stops wiht the following:
Errors were encountered while processing:
openmediavault
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
omvinstall failed to install omv package…

I have tried this multiple times with the same message.
Are you able to help?

Thank you

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Hi Ben,

Welcome to the forum, sorry to hear you’re having difficulties. Usually when doing these steps

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo wget -O - https://coreelec.io/openmediavault | sudo bash

I chuck a reboot in here just as a sanity check.

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
sudo reboot
sudo wget -O - https://coreelec.io/openmediavault | sudo bash

If this step is fine let me know where exactly you are in the process.

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I may have missed something here but the part below about accessing your NAS remotely doesn’t seem to work?

" Step 3: Access your NAS remotely

  • Open a web browser on a remote computer and enter your public IP address followed by | :80 |. For clarity, the following is an example | http://123.45.67.89:80 |."

From what i can see this just allows you access to the admin page, not at the actual files. The only way i could find to access the files on the NAS remotely is to install the file browser plugin and then forward that port on your router also.

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Thanks for jumping in with that @Alex266421 - I’m sure other users will find it useful. Looks like we may have overpromised with that remark in the guide :sweat_smile: