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My experience with #OMV #NAS with #RaspberryPi, and using #SnapRAID + #MergerFS, is that while SnapRAID's really cool, it def could not beat real #RAID. My understanding is RAID works on a low/block level so it can achieve redundancy 'in real time' no matter what files you have, but since SnapRAID is in software, it's not only more involved but it also simply could not achieve full redundancy as you will def need to exclude a lot of files (which could render ur redundancy useless, depending on ur use case) and it's also more involved where you might need to e.g. stop a bunch of #Docker containers prior to it doing its thing.
I'm just not sure how to achieve 'real' RAID on an RPi 4 (of varying memory capacities). One benefit of SnapRAID (and MergerFS) is that you could easily implement it with USB-attached disks, which is the 'friendliest' choice for SBCs like the Pi which has no SATA connectivity built-in. -
Because I had a conveersation about #backup yesterday at the pool.
trapexit, author of mergerfs, has a collection of IMHO , good and new user friendly howtos over here.
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Installing #OpenMediaVault on the #RaspberryPi so far... has been kind of a headache, despite how it always seemed 'simple' on other people's videos... Kinda wondering if I'm better off, just, setting up #SnapRAID, #mergerfs, and #Samba/#CIFS manually.
I don't think I need #OMV specifically, using the Pi as a simple #SMB share that I also happen to run some #Docker services on, I just thought it'd be neat to finally try out OMV, after having only used and been familiar with #TrueNAS all this while.
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Well, while it was busy installing (which I initiated remotely, through SSH), for some fuckin' reason I got disconnected to it and I couldn't reconnect to it through SSH again. Why does this only happen when I'm a million miles away (exaggerating) and have no physical access to it but when I'm literally in the same building, doing the same type of thing thousands of times, everything just.. goes swell to the point that it deluded me into thinking #KVM 's a waste of money :') -
Well, added a storage tier this evening.
A couple 4 Tb drives which I had laying about, as #JBOD (#MergerFS), for those media files which are "replaceable" and don't really need to be on #ZFS mirrors (~70 & ~16 Tb).
I now feed into #Plex from the different tiers using #OverlayFS.
Pretty neat. I can move things around without Plex noticing, select the tier in #Sonarr / #Radarr, and if one of those 4 Tb drives goes down, NBD and I can see what is missing.
More iops don't hurt either.
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Well, added a storage tier this evening.
A couple 4 Tb drives which I had laying about, as #JBOD (#MergerFS), for those media files which are "replaceable" and don't really need to be on #ZFS mirrors (~70 & ~16 Tb).
I now feed into #Plex from the different tiers using #OverlayFS.
Pretty neat. I can move things around without Plex noticing, select the tier in #Sonarr / #Radarr, and if one of those 4 Tb drives goes down, NBD and I can see what is missing.
More iops don't hurt either.
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Well, added a storage tier this evening.
A couple 4 Tb drives which I had laying about, as #JBOD (#MergerFS), for those media files which are "replaceable" and don't really need to be on #ZFS mirrors (~70 & ~16 Tb).
I now feed into #Plex from the different tiers using #OverlayFS.
Pretty neat. I can move things around without Plex noticing, select the tier in #Sonarr / #Radarr, and if one of those 4 Tb drives goes down, NBD and I can see what is missing.
More iops don't hurt either.
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Well, added a storage tier this evening.
A couple 4 Tb drives which I had laying about, as #JBOD (#MergerFS), for those media files which are "replaceable" and don't really need to be on #ZFS mirrors (~70 & ~16 Tb).
I now feed into #Plex from the different tiers using #OverlayFS.
Pretty neat. I can move things around without Plex noticing, select the tier in #Sonarr / #Radarr, and if one of those 4 Tb drives goes down, NBD and I can see what is missing.
More iops don't hurt either.
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Well, added a storage tier this evening.
A couple 4 Tb drives which I had laying about, as #JBOD (#MergerFS), for those media files which are "replaceable" and don't really need to be on #ZFS mirrors (~70 & ~16 Tb).
I now feed into #Plex from the different tiers using #OverlayFS.
Pretty neat. I can move things around without Plex noticing, select the tier in #Sonarr / #Radarr, and if one of those 4 Tb drives goes down, NBD and I can see what is missing.
More iops don't hurt either.