I’m using OMV as a backup system, not as a NAS. I’ve set up random leftover disks in mergerfs and use rsnapshot every night to back up my main NAS. For my use case, it’s perfectly adequate, and free!
@roblatour3511
Ай бұрын
I've recently started using OMV on a Raspberry Pi 5 as a NAS. The Pi has a 2.5GB Ethernet adapter. OMV was easy to set-up (two shares: a pair of HDDs in Raid 1, and an SSD). With that setup it has been working very well for me - even at 2.5GB speeds. Plus its open source and free (although donations are accepted!) Not everyone needs, or wants, more.
@oussamakarem5744
Ай бұрын
I personally really like it (easy to install - easy to set up - lightweight and stable 💯💪🏻)
@suntoryjim
Ай бұрын
OMV was my gateway drug to TrueNAS.
@Crystawth
Ай бұрын
Same. I've used Unraid, OMV, and FreeNAS before it was TrueNAS. They each serve their purpose. I liked Unraid's Docker and VM implimentation, but didn't like the storage. I liked OMV for a simple NAS, but I wanted more. I loved FreeNAS, and then TrueNAS, before SCALE was released, and continued to use CORE until SCALE was out. Moved to SCALE right away to get KVM and the debian base.
@novudusomasekhar702
Ай бұрын
@@suntoryjim How can you access shared folder out side home network? Any link to document is grateful!
@myleshudson7856
Ай бұрын
@novudusomasekhar702 running your own VPN service on the server with a node client installed on each endpoint. OR using a decentralised VPN model, something like Tailscale or ZeroTeir. Works similar but your have account authentication and acts as more of a VLAN rather than a VPN. I have used both of these options in the past, and it really depends on whether you have your own Domain, and/or whether your ISP allows port forwarding. Or if you are locked behind a CG-NAT. Google is your best friend. Happy homelabbing :))
@billychristmas
27 күн бұрын
@@novudusomasekhar702Zerotier or Tailscale
@CPPRODUCTIONS1001
Ай бұрын
OMV does what I need and was easy to set up. Never run it on a PI though. Its great for what it is.
@ralph4370
Ай бұрын
I have it running and most of my self hosting through portainer and docker. Plus my NAS. DBtech is/was the one who advocated for OMV. Yes, in the past it was meh, now it has been solid for me. Truenas was my first but I migrated to OMV. I tried unRaid as well and went back to OMV. Its simple, not overly complicated, more support, and it works. Also it is run by one person. I support the project every year $.
@slugboot
Ай бұрын
4:34 Bless you, bro
@RaidOwl
Ай бұрын
Yo thanks, the Holy Ghost got me.
@gpatkins
Ай бұрын
Mormon?......@@RaidOwl
@RaidOwl
Ай бұрын
@@gpatkins lol no
@PaulMetalhero
Ай бұрын
Bro, you cannot create a Cher if you don't believe in life after love ? 😂
@crashdoctor
Ай бұрын
We've all been there! I mean, if I could turn back time 😅
@MaxVoltageMiningCrypto
Ай бұрын
Each time you said OMG with the Pending message got funnier and funnier. Love your style. Thanks for the video.
@RaidOwl
Ай бұрын
Just watching a man slowly drift into insanity
@funkijote
Ай бұрын
Strong disagree, but mostly just so I can feel something.
@RaidOwl
Ай бұрын
I feel you homie
@try-that
Ай бұрын
I'm not sure every NAS os can be used without looking at some docs and for a Foss os there are some pretty good guides. Don't forget Unraid is not free or opensource. Regarding the apply config , I think you save 1 click if using truenas for lots of options. Regarding truenas, I see more videos with problems when trying to use docker than than I see in the OMV forums. I really like OMV it works great on my JBOD system. Truenas just looks to much hassle to learn for my uses, plenty of docker, vm, backups etc. Plus if you want the most out of OMV, you really need to install the OMV extras,thete are lots of plugins. I don't think lots of reviewers get OMV, to me it is extremely configurable and a lot more lightweight than other NAS OS. I'm sticking with, I like it and I like the forums.
@RaidOwl
Ай бұрын
I’m glad you like it. It certainly has its use cases and while I may not be a primary user I’m not oblivious to the fact all software doesn’t have to cater to me.
@partypopper318
Ай бұрын
Good points, OMV is great for a lightweight foss OS
@TheeAbstractHero
Ай бұрын
I struggle to see how OMV couldn’t be considered intuitive. I’m an absolute novice in this world, but I was able to get OMV setup with a RAID1 and an SMB share running with minimal issue. The only snag I ran in to was needing to install the md plugin to setup the RAID1. On the flip side I couldn’t even get TrueNAS Scale to install properly on my machine, despite trying different methods of writing the ISO. I wanted to use TrueNAS, but for now OMV does the trick. If I cannot get nextcloud and tail scale running I may reconsider trying to start fresh with TrueNAS.
@try-that
Ай бұрын
@@TheeAbstractHero If you're going to be using docker, then both of these should work fine. You could also use a VM if you prefer. I thought I was the only one who thinks Truescale looks more complicated than need be 😄
@TheeAbstractHero
Ай бұрын
@@try-that I should be trying it out soon once i get the data migrated over from all of my machines, however as RaidOwl had said in the video the snapshots seem to be a bit off-putting. Looks like I'll have to try to find out!
@malcomclark2261
12 күн бұрын
I have OMV installed on an old desktop with a few drives installed. Added OMV Extras and then installed Docker Compose to run a few containers. Works flawlessly.
@AarshMajmudar
Ай бұрын
Got into Homelab because OMV made it possible, as my 15 year old laptop was good for running nothing except OMV as Trunas Scale was too heavy for it, 2 years running strong
@teamajstrong151
Ай бұрын
@Raid Owl I am new to home lab and installed OMV 7. Having no Linux experience, it was a challenge. I find it works okay for me as a NAS. I tried to play around with Docker and ran into so many problems. I ended up installing Portainer and was able to create a container for Heimdall and OpenSpeedTest on there. I also find the UI on OMV very difficult to work with. What is your go to NAS OS?
@RaidOwl
Ай бұрын
TrueNAS is my personal go to but for newcomers I like to recommend they try Unraid.
@Xploder270
Ай бұрын
UnRAID
@Yuriel1981
Ай бұрын
@@RaidOwl Hey, can we get a video on custom app docker container implementation on TrueNAS scale? Several of my apps are now without good support due to Truecharts jumping ship, And I like to feel a bit more confident with the Docker setup with some Wise Owl guidance.
@BenReese
Ай бұрын
I agree 100%. It's a lightweight, simpleish NAS OS that will run on anything. If it's all that will work on your machine, you'll find a way to do what you need.
@dansanger5340
Ай бұрын
I just set up an OMV7 system as my first Linux NAS. I would say it's OK. The main weakness is the UI, which isn't super polished. But, it works for what's intended. Aside from the UI, I was actually pleasantly surprised with the Docker Compose support, especially the Add From Example option. And, if you don't want to use it directly, they have built-in examples to get Portainer and/or Yacht running, which I did in just a few seconds. But, after using OMV for a few weeks, I started questioning whether I needed any NAS OS at all (OMV, TrueNAS, UnRAID, whatever). It might be better to just run a Linux server such as Debian or Ubuntu, and install some combination of CasaOS, Webmin, Cockpit, Houston, and various Docker containers, including Portainer or Yacht. If the HW is powerful enough, you could even include a desktop to RDP in, if that's more comfortable than working through Web UI or ssh.
@JesusFranco01
26 күн бұрын
The honesty is refreshing. Thank you for showing everyone how unintuitive the nas functions of OMV is. Most people have never explored unraid or truenas and so don’t know that it doesn’t have to be this way and this isn’t the norm
@jothain
3 күн бұрын
UI isn't insanely good. But I tend to do the setup and I don't have to fiddle around with it after that for multiple years. Not everyone has TrueNAS or Unraid needed hardware.
@ZenRebel33
16 күн бұрын
I'm using OMV 7 for home NAS on Dell OptiPlex 7090 with a USB JBOD. Thoughts, OMV has always made you select an option and then confirm the action. Yes that is a bit of a pain, but it's really not that big of a deal. Deployment of Docker takes getting use to. You can circumvent Docker on OMV and do.command line or install Portainer. Getting OMV 7 setup the way you want is not as easy as other softwares. I did try True NAS in my environment. It did not like my USB JBOD. To be fair, neither True NAS or OMV 7 allow you to do RAID beyond RAID 0. In the end, I have OMV 7 configured the way I want it, and it works well.
@WilReid
20 күн бұрын
Maybe it's just me, but all of that seems like it would be quicker and easier to mkdir's, adduser, install samba, smbpasswd, edit smb.conf, edit exports, restart some services, and add an rsync cron job. Add mdadm for flavor. I'm really baffled how things have not gotten universally easier for what should be simple tasks in 20+ years. I guess the dashboard is nice.
@try-that
Ай бұрын
Regarding trying the hiemdell container install pretty poor of you really most people would look at the compose file first. I'd have liked you to have a better look at the compose plugin, it does everything from editing to backing up, scheduling backups, auto updates etc. I've not used portainer since. It will interesting to see what truenas does for it's new docker implementation. After compose plugin, Unraid docker looks pretty long winded. But like you said, with PCs there is no right way of doing stuff.
@RaidOwl
Ай бұрын
Yeah I mean this was an unscripted first look. The idea was to explore and see if OMV has become more intuitive and it seems like it hasn’t. I don’t doubt that there is functionality that I missed but…I’m okay with that lol.
@cameronfrye5514
Ай бұрын
The irritation is strong in this one... OMV was the first NAS OS I tried, I think it was OMV 3.something. There was a jump to 4.something and once I got it all working, I used that NAS with two 1 TB drives in it for years. Configuration has always been archaic and tedious, and it appears nothing has changed. I suppose it would still work on that Celeron 1007U I have collecting dust in the basement.. but who cares?
@lelandclayton5462
29 күн бұрын
I use OMV as a quick and dirty PXE server and use as a SMB share to backup a system I am repairing/upgrading.
@mistakek
Ай бұрын
Thank you for the laughs mate. Sitting at home sick as 🤧, I needed the entertainment 😂
@perryholman5302
Ай бұрын
Agree with your frustrations. I have an old Atom Z8350 system, and just set a SMB share for quick file transfers. It is stable with very low resources. Thank you for the video! Click to apply Pending configuration changes!
@Ninpothor
Ай бұрын
Oh my, first time in seeing the openmedia vault, that reminder to accept what you wanted to do, dude, you held it together well..ive had that in other softwares and it does my head in each time (most likely as it wasnt as obvious theres something more to do Before it does it). That and the firey hoops you need to jump through to create a share..linux knowledge or not, it should be more intuitive if they want widescale takeup.
@TheDefaultgameer
Ай бұрын
This was a great way to let me know that when i put together a real NAS I can cross this off the list. Fun watching him struggle bus on this one haha.
@RetroBerner
Ай бұрын
If I wanted more out of my setup I'd probably use another distro, but I'm just using OMV on a CM3358 for backups and that works fine.
@RaidOwl
Ай бұрын
Yeah I mean it “works” for simple solutions. So if that’s your use case then OMV is perfectly fine.
@ElementalITcc
Ай бұрын
I got one of those with the 16gb ram and 64gb emmc and it came with OMV preinstalled. I really tried to make it work... and I could not for the life of me get it to even install docker correctly. I wound up installing the ubuntu image to the emmc and then installing casaOS. it has been a much better experience. The brick wall has found my head so much less since I ditched OMV.
@primeral
Ай бұрын
I'm running OMV7 on a RPi5. I just got used to it, but file sharing truly wasnt intuitive. It took me days to learn how to manage BTRFS in the CLI, it annoyed me so much. I don't mind their proprietary Docker frontend. I'm making do with what I'm willing to pay for, but with my server up without dowbtime for 20 days I'm satisfied with it ... I do hope they overhaul file sharing in future revisions.
@martinottolangui4667
Ай бұрын
Looking at omv instead of truenas in proxmox set up running on a terramaster f4-424, Only need shares ,also with true nas you cant use a "das" bought the d8 hybrid Which i think you can with this ?
@realmadera
Ай бұрын
OMV is amazing. I honestly can't find a reason to dump OMV for anything else. Portainer, Casaos for dockers. KVM plugin for VMs and LXCs I have no need for Proxmox but I'm running it in KVM just for fun. What am I missing??
@Yuriel1981
Ай бұрын
Dang, the sarcasm is strong in this one. If we didnt see your hands every now and then, I'd swear you were wearing gloves just to type on this system lol. And the "My test of ONE of these apps proves that they all work perfectly..." love it!
@moipcr
24 күн бұрын
Omv 6 is excellent, omv 7 is good too. So, which is the problem?
@Game_Rebel
Ай бұрын
Do I agree with you? Yes. ❗Pending configuration changes You must apply this comment in order for it to take effect ✅ Do I agree with you? YES 🤣
@ChrisCebelenski
Ай бұрын
I ran OMV 7 on my proxmox cluster for a few months - I'd say it was "fine", but I didn't love the UX either. But it was lightweight and I could run it without passing through raw drives because I wanted to dump the whole thing to the backup server at once. TIP: Don't use USB drives as storage in proxmox, only regret awaits those who dare. And ESPECIALLY don't ZFS them. Just saying.
@JTech7
Ай бұрын
I used OMV 5.0 as my first NAS on an old Dell PowerEdge tower - file transfers were slow as hell. Then OMV 6 came out with docker removed and replaced with their own container manager. It was a mess and pain in butt to work. I ended up ditching it and getting a Synology for my main NAS and another mini server which I installed Debian along with Cockpit and 45 Drives file server and user access plugins, and Dockge container manager that I strictly use for handbrake. They both work great. Much better than OMV ever did. Just a basic Ubuntu server with samba and docker would EVEN be better than OMV. As it isn’t such a confused and convoluted mess.
@andljoy
Ай бұрын
The whole uncommitted changes is more of a firewall thing, you see it on big corpo firewalls like palo alto .
@BrokenGlytch
Ай бұрын
My experience has been mixed. OMV is mostly ok as an 'install and forget about it' NAS application without too much overhead. Does what I need it to do pretty reliably. That said, I'll never try using it for containerization again. I had a power blip that caused an unexpected outage. At the time OMV 5 with Docker and Portainer, and I had a few hosted containers running in the OMV instance because I thought it made sense. The unexpected outage broke everything -real- bad, and I'm still to this day something of a linux noob. Between poor documentation, me not knowing what I had to do to fix it, and a tangled mess of BS that looked like turning a couple of toddlers loose in your network closet to rerun all the drops, it was a problem. Got it sorted eventually, but that one instance proved to me that's just a 'we also do this, but not that well' function on their resume.
@renzodelcastillo8729
Ай бұрын
That could happened with any NAS software if you don't have an UPS.
@tv-rx7ti
Ай бұрын
OMV is perfectly fine for a low power nas on a pi but thats about all from my experience. If you want a nas OS that can do docker and other things it can but its not really the best tool for the job. I had to jump through hoops to get docker and portainer working right
@demanuDJ
Ай бұрын
there is podman for containers as default, not docker 😉
@RaidOwl
Ай бұрын
Ew
@timsandman
Ай бұрын
Thanks for this, I Guess I'll stick with TrueNas and Synology then!
@Twangaming
Ай бұрын
I use OMV7, the default image is pretty mid but the plugins make it way way better
@gumshoe-tech
Ай бұрын
I used version 6 and really liked it, (two years?) but installed a new setup on 7, and ended up dumping OMV and just doing a Ubuntu share of a 10 TB hard drive. OMV was frustrating, for instance, Upload files to the share, it works, then the files permission changed and I am not able to do anything with the saved files...
@MrPurle
Ай бұрын
Useful video as always - thanks for that... I think your criticism of the UX is warranted; even if the product only aspires to be something on a Raspberry Pi, it's still not that great. It looks like it's been designed by a developer as a programming exercise - which is a shame because there are a few other projects that do a lot of the same things but better.
@pjohnson21211
Ай бұрын
thanks for this update om OMV
@OnTheNerdySide
Ай бұрын
I started out using OMV on a Raspberry Pi 4. The only way I could figure out how to do that at the time was to install OMV on top of Raspbian. This caused all sorts of username issues and every time the system restarted, I'd have to SSH in and change passwords and fix it. The whole system was not very intuitive, but it did work for me for about a year before I gave up on it. I thought about trying it again for a backup system, but realized Portainer would be a chore to install, so I decided against it.
@hellsing56666
Ай бұрын
I use it since version 3, main issu is the samba transferts are slow. For the rest it does what i want.
@VictorEstrada
Ай бұрын
I gotta say, you did a crappy job giving it a fair comparison and were unprofessional about it. In reality, it's far easier to setup OMV than TrueNAS, you were just negative the entire time. It's far better because they use general terms, so everything is self explanatory. Whereas TrueNAS requires KBs and videos to get it going cause their names and ways of doing things are not straight forward. What's worse of what you're doing with this video is diminishing a great competitor, and with that comes reducing competition, even with something that's FREE! I am currently using TrueNAS, but I don't think it's the greatest at all, you can't even turn off caching, which is a huge downside for me cause it actually slows down my all NVMe array.
@RaidOwl
Ай бұрын
Lol ok Victor
@novudusomasekhar702
Ай бұрын
How to access the shared folder (SMB or NFS) from outside home network?
@RaidOwl
Ай бұрын
Set up a VPN connection back into your home network/subnet and access your share from there.
@novudusomasekhar702
Ай бұрын
@@RaidOwl Thanks for quick reply I have tried Cloudflare tunnel with a domain I own, I am able to open OMV web ui from the domain but not able to access shared folder even though i have enaled nfs smb share. I am kind of noob for network related stuff
@variable_0
Ай бұрын
OMV is my first NAS OS, the fact that your getting slightly annoyed by OMV makes me wonder if I'm normal 😅. My build is a bit on the cheap side but had to go with SSD (power consumption, noise and physical size) with different drive sizes so I can utilize MergerFS, I know, not a good choice but it's just for media that I'm not afraid to lose. Docker sucks in this thing
@Innocentdarkness72
Ай бұрын
Good video, Nice week !!
@ws_stelzi79
Ай бұрын
For this thing being supposed to be a NAS os there are A LOT of somewhat not very handheld steps to do in order to create a very core thing for a NAS! This feels like this NAS wants to give off the impression that every new homelaber is handheld but in reality easy things (at least they should be easy for a NAS) are unnecessary complicated by way too much different steps!
@A77ick
Ай бұрын
4:33 What a lovely day for an exorcism.
@RaidOwl
Ай бұрын
Wait til you play that clip backwards
@A77ick
Ай бұрын
@@RaidOwl Huh.. it says: "All Hail TrueNAS, Like and Subscribe"
@hunter-ie8dd
Ай бұрын
I'm using OMV for docker apps and VMs but I must say docker on this OS SUCKS... That's why I'm using portainer to manage my docker apps. And yeaaaah setup is not easy... With every iteration it's a bit easier...
Ай бұрын
Its nice project, but truenas is still to go OS.
@RaidOwl
Ай бұрын
agreed
@CampRusso
Ай бұрын
Dark Mode for life! 😎🤘
@matthias3231
Ай бұрын
You are a nice guy and I like most of you video's, but just don't know a lot about linux. That's why you are having a hard time with OMV. In my opinion, OMV is just a UI above debian, nothing more. It has handy feature if you know how linux/debian works..... and I think you don't know that enough to understand how thinks work or where certain UI chooses come from.
@TimHunold
Ай бұрын
Opensource can do a lot of things you want, but also totally suck.
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@RockTheCage55
Ай бұрын
honestly after watching your walkthrough i probably would just prefer to install debian & do everything from the command line. What does OMV really add? A crappy UI or maybe if you REALLY want a UI use CasaOS.
@TheArnoparno
Ай бұрын
Tldr ovm still sucks if you are used to the likes of truenas unraid etc
@THEG12EG
Ай бұрын
Casa OS is better for a non critical system
@joelsmith4709
Ай бұрын
This video needs a "surely" counter.
@jacquesredmond
28 күн бұрын
I have seen some of your other videos which were great, but I'm sorry, but I couldn't watch this video all the way though, you were so pissed off about something it was uncomfortable to watch and I had to turn it off.
@RaidOwl
28 күн бұрын
Lol
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@dktol56
Ай бұрын
Your constant snark doesn't inform - it just annoys me. I can't say I've actually learned anything from your videos, so I unsubscribed. Bye.
@RaidOwl
Ай бұрын
Who are you?
@arubial1229
Ай бұрын
Pretty crazy that people would use this when Unraid exists
@RaidOwl
Ай бұрын
$$$
@arubial1229
Ай бұрын
@@RaidOwl I mean, yeah but the cost is negligible, and Unraid destroys it in pretty much every aspect.
@vollhorst140
Ай бұрын
I use omv over truenas and unraid for a really basic reason. Truenas and unraid don’t support sleep, why they do not, no idea.
@arubial1229
Ай бұрын
@@vollhorst140 because servers should always be on
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