Re: I uninstalled OpenMediaVault (because totally overkill for me) and replaced it with borgbackup and rsync

2023-09-01 Thread Manphiz 
Jason  writes:

> Hi
>
> I was a user of OpenMediaVault for several years. I even donated money to the
> developer.
>
> But very provocatively OpenMediaVault is bloatware, way too big. The only 
> thing
> I need is a reliable backup.
>
> I had pure Debian (minimal installation, very few packages) installed with
> borgbackup and rsync.
>
> I am now very satisfied, much more streamlined than OpenMediaVault.
>
> Am I wrong, are my statements completely off?
>
> Or how does your backup look like?
>
> cheers
> Jason
>
>

Another OMV user for several years and have been happy about it.  It's a
NAS system based on Debian (latest version based on Buster), on top of
which it provides its NAS management layer and you can control what to
install or not.  There is no ads, no telemetry, and it manages my ZFS
raidz1 cluster without any issue for several years, and the system
itself takes less than 5GB space, so I'm not sure why you'd call it
bloatware.

-- 
Manphiz

Re: I uninstalled OpenMediaVault (because totally overkill for me) and replaced it with borgbackup and rsync

2023-09-01 Thread jeremy ardley 



On 1/9/23 12:44, Jason wrote:


Or how does your backup look like?



I had a QNAP NAS but it became so incredibly slow I replaced it with 
Debian using Samba and SSH.


The backups are managed by the clients, but periodically I save part of 
the NAS to Amazon S3.


I also have a remote Nextcloud server which my clients use to share a 
small working set of documents and files. It's on Akami (nee Linode) and 
is very fast in my region and pretty cheap. I used to do this on AWS but 
Linode is cheaper and simpler for my applications


I'm also in the process of converting some of my storage from Dropbox to 
Nextcloud

I uninstalled OpenMediaVault (because totally overkill for me) and replaced it with borgbackup and rsync

2023-08-31 Thread Jason 

Hi

I was a user of OpenMediaVault for several years. I even donated money 
to the developer.


But very provocatively OpenMediaVault is bloatware, way too big. The 
only thing I need is a reliable backup.


I had pure Debian (minimal installation, very few packages) installed 
with borgbackup and rsync.


I am now very satisfied, much more streamlined than OpenMediaVault.

Am I wrong, are my statements completely off?

Or how does your backup look like?

cheers
Jason


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