Is This the ULTIMATE Home Cloud Solution? OMV + CasaOS

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Timestamps:
0:00 Open Media Vault vs CasaOS
0:42 Setting Up A Website Is Simple With Squarespace
1:31 Why This MIGHT Work
1:58 My Plan
2:50 Getting Started
3:37 OpenMediaVault Setup
5:39 Prep for CasaOS
8:47 Installing CasaOS
11:32 CasaOS Installed
13:15 Running Some Apps
17:45 Messing Around With "CasaVault"

[nidalspam]

thank you for not cutting out your goof ups and google searches. It's refreshing

[PaulMetalhero]

TrueNAS: gimme all your RAM!
OMV: you only have 1 Gb? it's ok!

[alanstedman]

I have loved OMV for years, and recently have been trying CasaOS and been impressed how it has matured. I had never thought of mixing them together. One word of caution if you want to try this on a SBC - OMV comes prepacked with OMV-extras, which breaks the CasaOS install script. It seems to work well on x64 as long as you dont install omv-extras.

[vuman]

65, 535
The highest TCP port number is 65, 535. The TCP protocol provides 16 bits for the port number, and this is interpreted as an unsigned integer; all values are valid, apart from 0, and so the largest port number is (2^16 - 1) or 65, 535.

[JaikrishnaAdithya]

Congratulations for 100, 000 subscribers
I knew from the very beginning that you will hit this milestone!!!!
Congratulations once again!!!🎉🎉🎉

[secondfalcon]

I used OMV for a while, and I bricked it like 6 times. So everyone who want to try it, be careful with the APT repositories. And as Hardware Haven pointed out, there is a good chance that any update can brick the entire setup.

[michaelkane]

Interesting, but more than anything this makes me want to explore CasaOS further. I used OMV for years, and while it was reliable so long as it was left alone, it seemed like every major update broke something that took hours to figure out. One of your older recycled hardware videos sent me down the TrueNAS rabbit hole and that, while powerful, isn't at all intuitive. As my main NAS it has completely replaced OMV... but once or twice I've borked the whole installation trying to set up something in a container. Time to leave that as simply a storage device so I stop breaking it and try a different hypervisor. I was considering ProxMox, but maybe CasaOS would be enough to meet my needs without excessive complexity. It is after all just a home server...

Thank you once again for narrating and sharing your experience.

[Rockwolf]

Nice setup. Two things first. You can use docker-compose files right from within Casa. Also make sure to mount your volumes directly. OMV uses /seven/whole bunch of garbage after that as share locations when you set them up from within OMV.

[jumpmaster]

Going 100k soon all the best, looking forward to more fun videos and a new diy nas

[Rfhuir]

I have been using OMV for a couple of years now and use it to manage my samba shares, backups, docker containers, etc. It's been 100% bullet proof on my setup. I like what I see with CasaOS and think it has potential, but I can't really see the use case for having both.

[charlestodoroff]

This proof of concept piece was definitely fun to watch. Have an upvote and a new sub.

[charlesjmouse]

FWIW: I've been running OMV for a while and quite satisfied with it, although the interface is a little 'occasional user' unfriendly. (Linux!) Having seen this video I thought I'd do the same and liked the combination. No issues with stability and I've since updated both installs without issue...
...I found myself increasingly using the CasaOS side to the point where I haven't touched OMV at all in a while. So I transferred some of my OMV settings like network shares that CasaOS doesn't currently do so well and uninstalled OMV entirely. All well and good.

I don't think CasaOS is yet a replacement for OMV as it's options are neither as extensive nor as mature as OMV. But once you have things sorted as you'd like that it's possible to take those OMV niceties and apply them to CasaOS to use alone as a daily driver is encouraging.
To anyone following along I wouldn't remove OMV as I did, as while I'm happy you will have to spend time manually replacing bits you lost along the way and reintroducing settings CasaOS's GUI just doesn't handle...
...or maybe for those who are old enough to be utterly sick of command-line fiddling (Why, Linux adherents, why?) another option might be to install a Docker image like webtop to have a 'full' Linux GUI in a browser to manage the details more neatly... although with all things Linux you never can get away from the command line entirely. *sigh*

[VitePapa]

I love casaos, have an old laptop who's monitor simply died so it became the home server.

Now I run ubuntu 22.04lts with pro real-tim-kernel setup (did it cause it sounds cool unsure what ir really does).

Then turned that into an lxd server.

Lxd alpine container for docker learning.

Pihole in it's own ubuntu image.

Then lxd ubuntu for casaos which also has docker.

Now I'm curious to find an OMV image to try this out.

[PicSta]

You should take a closer look at ports. Well-known ports go from 1 to 1023 and 1024 to 49151 are the user/registered ports. So, 10080 belong to the “high ports” how I call them. And I would stick to the 4 numbered long ports for applications. It looked like the changed didn't take effect in first place.

[KrzysztofJaniczek]

I highly recommend TrueNAS. The UI is ok. It's easy to navigate after a while. I've been using it for over 8 years and haven't had any major problems with it. I highly recommend. High capacity and high reliability.

[albentley]

@14:04 TO circumvent the CasaOS default install perimeters set, simply click on the pic of the app you wish to install, followed by a (mouse-over) of the INSTALL button to get the Custom Install option.

[antonbotha]

Thanks for this video, was struggling to get my raid mounted in CasaOS. I am now using Proxmox with CasaOS in a LXC container and doing a mount point in the proxmox container conf file to it.

[cerveraoliver]

Been using OMV since 4 years at least, and if you don't like the current UI, the previous was even worse! 🤣 No judging, I was fine with it.
It's a great distro and I've mastered it, but it's not for everyone.

OMV takes control over many things in the OS. If you change stuff outside the webgui, it must be done by following the rules that OMV plays, otherwise it'll break.

To update OMV you might prefer "omv-upgrade", a quick command that will do the apt jobs. Such command will never prompt for choices like it happened to you.

[david_n_nettey]

Thanks for the interesting video! Apparently another way to have NAS capabilities while using CasaOS is to install Cockpit alongside it.

[GhostieXV]

Debian 11 + CasaOS+ZFS works a treat! installing it on top of OMV the webguis will fight each other just a FYI lol