Raspberry Pi OMV 5 NAS

OpenMediaVault NAS installation on a Raspberry Pi, including setting up a Windows share.

The other videos mentioned herein are:

Raspberry Pi 4 TerraPi Rig:

Raspberry Pi 4 OpenMediaVault NAS:

The official instructions for installing OpenMediaVault on a Raspberry Pi or other SBC can be found here:

Raspberry Pi OS Lite can be downloaded from:

As detailed in this video, the commands for setting up OMV in Raspberry Pi OS Lite are as follows:

After boot, login using the username: pi and password: raspberry

Optionally, if you want to increase the console text size, enter:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure console-setup

and select “UTF-8”, “Guess optimal character set”, “Terminus” and 16x32.

Then, to proceed to install OpenMediaVault execute:

sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo reboot

Login in again, and execute as a single command:

In the above, do not enter the "[ ]" brackets around the dot before the com -- they are there to prevent the YouTube system not displaying the rest of the code correctly. Also note that there are no carriage returns, that there is a space after wget, another before the “-O”, another space after the “-O”, and another space between the following hyphen and “https...” There are then spaces before and after the vertical line before “sudo”, and one between “sudo” and “bash”. Note also that “-O” is a hyphen followed by a capital letter O (not a zero).

More videos on computing and related topics can be found at:

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:46 Hardware
02:31 Getting OMV
04:57 Pi Installation
10:14 OMV Share
17:24 Wrap

#RaspberryPi #OpenMediaVault #NAS #ExplainingComputers

[MarcusPHagen]

This is very helpful, especially since you provided a simpler setup/install process. Thanks for the update, & for your extremely clear demonstration & explanations. This is an example of what keeps me coming back every Sunday for another video. I've saved & tagged this for use when I update my home NAS.

[Kaecyus]

Having used Linux on and off for years, the -y as a flag to default all answers during that command execute is the one thing I have learned today. How I have missed that I will never know!

[beautoop]

Using the command "ping raspberrypi.local" from another computer often times works as another easy way to discover the IP address of a Pi on your local network, where raspberrypi=hostname. Lots of time shuffling around hdmi cables and mouse/keyboard peripherals to be saved : )

[sbc_soc_tinkerer]

Been using OMV on an Odroid Cloudshell 2 for a couple of years now. Love the ease of setup and use..

[drcemdede]

Thank you very much Chris ! To everyone who would like to use Pi 3 + OMV 6 + 4TB HDD: 1) Get rid of the partitions on the HDD by using OMVs wipe option(formatted with ext4). 2) DO WHAT Chris DOES, while enabling shared folder. Without these steps I could not manage to make Time machine work on latest MACOS (Montery 12.1). I tried every trick including changing root privileges for the folders. Nothing works except this ! Thank you again Chris !!!!

[typxxilps]

All the best ... the 750 k subscriber mark is in the horizon ...

I like your looking back and Re Covering of previous projects.

It feels that you do not forget good stuff that is working.
And each time you Recover a project it gets into my head If and when I could or should replace my WDcloud with a Pi solution ... cause a Pi4 NAS has enough power to run other services in top like pi-hole

I checked the power consumption of my Pi4 running Pi hole and 40 kWh a year is a lot ... but replacing my WDcloud would save a similiar amount.

Now the Pi4 is running 247 but rarely used as desktop ...

I had bought a Pi400 to get ridd off that Overhead using a Pi4 for a pi-hole job.

[akat]

i love this channel. really simple instructions, right to the point and loads of charisma

[SuperFurryA]

Christopher, I learnt a lot from this video, so thank you so much for posting it!

Your comment on talking to ducks was also super-useful too, as that is the one thing I've not done when setting up OMV, so thank you. You must have higher-class ducks where you are though, as the ones in my area just seem to eat bread, poop, and know next to nothing about technology. They still haven’t been able to fix my network woes.

[wojwesoly]

I just watched the year old video and ordered a RPi, perfect timing!

[diegoarthur]

Just recently I bought a nice 4 hdd enclosure and a pi 4 to follow your old video tutorial and found out it was outdated. Managed to configure it anyway, but thanks to you I got to know OMV. Nice video. It's working very nice here.

[martinkuhk]

The command for enlarging the console text size is surprisingly useful! Thank you Chris!

[storage]

Hi Mr. Barnatt; Thank you for the video update on OMV, i see the install process is a little less user friendly than before to say the least but a very good opportunity for the uninitiated to get familiarized with the Terminal and its power.

Ps. Ducks are Great

[Caaxl]

Oh my god, I was literally in the middle of doing this for my pi (upgrading a really old nas using a hdd dock) and then this video popped up. Thank you for the help!

[srtcsb]

Really saw you go to work on this one Chris. Excellent, as usual. Thanks for the update, and another great video.

[ronaldhofman]

oh men, the -y is a good one, didn't know that one.

[resrussia]

Thanks for a very clear and lucid tutorial on the OMV NAS. Your tutorials are easy to follow and I have also been successful when I attempt them. Thanks once again for the wonderful work you do for the SBC community.

[dennistCV]

Hello from the USA, I Have used your tutorial on the NAS Setup using OMV on Pi 4. At the moment, all seems good. I will add more files day by day and see how it goes. I am content with the way the NAS seems to be working right now. I enjoy all your tutorials and have watched numerous other videos from this channel. Keep up the good work. Very helpful to me. Ty

[mechaform]

Just went through all the steps in the official instructions. Worked a treat. Pi 3B+ LiteOS & OMV with external 240Gb 3.5” HD in its own powered enclosure. Thanks for the detailed tutorial.

[keithmiller]

Thanks Chris! I have been running OMV based on your previous video for many months now. Previously I was running a QNAP NAS 4xHDD with associated fan running 24x7x365. Both the RPI4 and powerered USB hub running 4xSSD consume in total around 10W or less, so environmentally as well. QNAP NAS is now turned off awaiting some future use. For basic media serving duties and file storage duties I found OMV a good enough replacement for the QNAP. With Wales now under full lockdown again I will have plenty of time to upgrade to OMV5. Thanks for updated video.

[Lertas_AltShow]

Hey, its the Co-Founder, i absolutely love the videos you made on our products! I highly appreciate it.