Network Engineering is not just a job. It is a lifestyle
Email notification. Yes, this is one of the features that I need especially for a server. From time to time, it is nice to know the status of my server, important tasks that are being completed, etc. Also, if something fails, I would also like to know. I have been searching around and the only …
First thing first, running badblocks will wipe the entire disk. Make sure that there is no data on the disk before running badblocks. Also, if you have mulitple disks, make sure to select the correct disk to avoid data loss. Since I started using Unraid in 2016, the Unraid community recommends to Pre-clear (burn-in test) …
Here is an update : Nextcloud Docker container I have been using Nextcloud since 2017 on my Unraid server using the Linuxserver Docker image. It works, but I have a major issue with it. I could not get my instance of Nextcloud upgraded to the latest stable. I started with version 12 and got it …
There are several ways to create sub-directories, but each method has its ups and downs, I believe or at least what I’ve noticed. The first one is through SSH. This is very simple. You basically login via SSH and create a directory using mkdir command. However, if you created a directory and the parent directory …
I am running SnapRAID and MergerFS. I want my data to be protected by SnapRAID and simplify the storage management across the SnapRAID disks array via MergeFS. OpenMediaVault (OMV) made this easier by having these two available as plugins. These can be installed via OMVExtras Plugins. After installing the OMVExtras, search for these two plugins …
For this post, I will be using the SnapRAID, as an example, to automate its sync and scrub commands to show some use cases. Scheduled jobs can be used to do other cron jobs as well such as your own scripts. We will get to this script later on. What is the Scheduled Jobs tab …
I recently encountered a problem. This issue is probably a bug in OpenMediaVault 4 script since I can replicate it every reboots and on my other instance of OMV. Here are the symptoms : Shared Folders (/sharedfolders) become empty Docker container images are gone VirtualBox virtual machines are gone What I think was happening was …
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This post is assuming that every disk does not have any important data and/or no critical data on it. Encrypting disk(s) with data will cause data loss. Why would we want to encrypt our disk(s)? To prevent unauthorized users that have physical access to the disks and walk away with it. To encrypt the disk …
If you are unable to delete the folders in Shared Folders and getting the error message as shown in the screenshot above in the web UI or the message below via the CLI. This post may help with the issue. What worked for me was to unmount the absolute path of the directory that I …
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I just encountered some annoyance in OMV. This is probably my fault in the first place. I replaced the 8TB HDD that I had on my backup OMV server without removing the references to it. What happened now is what you can see on the featured image above. I could not delete this disk entry …
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