Gathering good troubleshooting information when reporting an issue with greyhole, or asking for help. The ultimate linux newbie guide cannot be held responsible for any damage caused as a result of following this tutorial. This will make your 320gb drive the landing zone for new files that you copy into your shares, but greyhole will get to work once that happen, and it will move the actual files to either or both your 1. Zum gluck stellte er bald fest, dass dank amahi, einem kostenlosen. Greyhole alternative for windows home server drive extender. Note that there is no support for a desktop at the console. All commands are executed as root user fedora or preceded with sudo ubuntu.
The system will finish the hda configuration and reboot into the final. And i thought this would be easy the linux experiment. To do so, use the emptytrash parameter of the greyhole command. Usb drives arent good for this use pattern because of writes, and also size limits. Files transferred at about 5mbs from my file server to the remote drive, so i had to wait a couple of hours for the 600gb to get filled. It is not a form of raid, but instead a way to make sure duplicate files exist, and it does it fairly well. It is a significant step in helping the home user with varied size drives to protect their data. Amahi a linux based home server reached version 6 today boasting many new improvements and features. Next, check to make sure your hard drive was detected with the command. I have seen posts here about growing the native pool can take days and be at risk from power outages etc. I too am going to set one up and get rid of my windows home server hpex470. Amahi application greyhole ui provides this capability. Greyhole plugin guide drive pooling in omv description the addition of greyhole brings drive pooling to omv.
How to install linux on a macintosh and dual boot with macos. Once thats done, its just a matter of copying the files over. Turn an old pc into a nas, vpn or media streamer with amahi. I decided that i need to build a new rig for my storage server, mainly due to the fact i wanted to. Check out the amahi website for more information on amahi home server, where you can find the amahi download and browse around their app store and forums. Viewed in real time using the tail command, i can often see a pattern emerge visually, based on the different line lengths because it is moving so fast.
I have migrated all my shares and they all work apart from 1 the share i cannot get. Disk pooling uses samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives. All greyhole commands must be executed as root user or. Using it for ssh, file storage with greyhole replication, media server, dhcp server and as a firewall.
I helped a friend setup an amahi server at home and he loves it. Amahi is a linux distribution built on fedora an ubuntu based system is in the. Trying to install amahi for nas, cant even get fedora 25 server to install. We have tested this installation path with a fair bit of success, with clean versions and fullyupdated versions of amahi 9. Use the amahi disk wizard application for amahi 8 or greater. Refer to the greyhole ui application transition guide for details on installation and configuration note.
These range from big apps like plex to nifty little apps that help at home and even more. Access shares using windows xpvista78, mac os x, and linux systems. Storage pooling greyhole discussion about storage pooling and the technology implementing it, greyhole 6 topics 4083 posts last post re. Power on the amahi machine and use another computer to ssh to the server. The installation is started through amahi installer that was setup.
Like snapraid, greyhole pools an arbitrary number of disks of arbitrary size so the pool is free to growshrink with whatever is available. Home server os that fits your needs will make your life a lot simpler from the initial setup to the daytoday maintenance. Like snapraid, greyhole pools an arbitrary number of disks of arbitrary size so the pool is. In greyhole, the trash is used like the recycle bin on windows, or the trash on mac.
Upgrading from an existing 64bit not 32bit amahi 9running system is supported to a limited extent. Execute the following command on the client computer, using either a command prompt, or a terminal. Hi i have just recently moved from amahi to omv, i am in the process of of migrating my greyhole shares over. However, there has been mention of some sorts of mini linux distributions that i could boot from then point to the hda to do backups. Should i use ubuntu server or amahi for a home server. Greyhole file copies are regular files, visible on any machine, without any hardware or software required. Greyhole uses samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives, and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store. Previously, most of my storage was internal to my main desktop. Im setting up a homeserver using greyhole and samba excerpt. That could delay for a long time a lot of the file operations that happen on your shares.
Additionally, greyhole was available as a plugin for openmediavault my nas os. Jun 10, 2017 download the amahi home server for free. Amahi is now based on fedora 14 and sees updates to the storage pooling technology greyhole, app installation reliability, and an improved user interface. Amahi 7 and greyhole on hp proliant n54l microserver ive had a long winded ride in getting amahi 7 with greyhole installed and working. Refer to the greyhole ui application transition guide for details on installation and configuration. In mac os x, go to system preferences, network, and look in the router field. Here are a few commands you can type in a terminal to follow along. Unfortunately, in its default configuration, greyhole appears to use the drive as a sort of holding ground before shuffling it out to the drives in the pool. Learn how to upgrade and manage your amahi server storage.
Also included is portugueseportugal support and improved polish support. Aug 01, 2011 we have just shown you that you can upgrade your windows home server for free by choosing the open source amahi server. If you take out one hard drive from your pool, and mount it. Any drives you wish to exclusively use for greyhole storage pooling. Overall, when it comes to file sharing, it is a draw between amahi and windows home server. You can generally fix this by following the greyhole fsck commands listed on the.
Greyhole needs to work on the files that change in the same order they do, and once it finds a file that is still open or locked, it will wait until this change is complete before working on anything else on that greyhole share. I simply mounted that drive on my file server, and included it in my greyhole storage pool. Host mac os time machine backups and win backups ability to grow pool easily e. To get past this step, select the option to go to a debug console and run the command configamahi. Amahi can turn any pc into an athome vpn and a nas for. Upgrade your windows home server with amahi howto geek.
First of all, my initial boot screen doesnt look like the screenshot of the instruction page for installing amahi. Now, you either need to wait for greyholes nightly check to start, or you can start it manually from a terminal, as root, using this command. So amahi for those that dont know is an addon to ubuntu or fedora, that promises awesome features from a home server utilizing apps and such, it gives you a web interface and some services from their end. Amahi home server build and setup so i had a super old emachines computer running the original windows home server, but the hardware was 6 years old, barely running, and generating a lot of noise and heat, so it was time to replace it. This tutorial has been tested on a late 20 macbook pro retina 15. See this detailed guide for installing ubuntu server. It brought me back to ye olde linux days when 14 floppy disks housed your distribution and more times than not you didnt have compatible hardware and had to find out via bbs what modem worked with continue reading ubuntu 12. Amahi is a media, home and app server software known for its easytouse user interface.
We would like to take a moment to share with you the release of amahi 8 much hard work has gone into this fantastic release. There is a tiny bit of command line work involved, but ive simplified things and found a gui alternative wherever possible. The amahi home server project is a linux based distribution covering many of the needs for home networks and home servers. After greyhole does its thing the file time is changed again to 1 or 2 minutes after the. However, the difference between amahi and windows home server is that whs. I then launched greyhole balance to force greyhole to balance the available space evenly on all drives. Greyhole abstracts several storage volumes drives, volumes, etc and lets you select via the amahi interface which path will be multiples to however many volumes you want. Backups methods to perform backups with amahi, like full disk bare metal, time machine, crashplan, etc. I have ran into a problem and i hope someone can help. This is the knowledge base wiki for amahi the home server. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. All your existing data is now stored in the various drives included in your storage pool, and are accessible via the samba shares you have defined in the amahi dashboard. So i think the remote system has been halted by the first command i cant ping it anymore i will check that tomorrow when back at work. Apr 30, 2011 the third video in a series shows the process of installing the amahi home digital assistant on top of fresh installed fedora 14.
Choosing the right or best home server operating system is nearly half the work in setting up a home network server. Although amahi is not particularly suited to the more sophisticated needs of businesses or professionals, it is a capable product for individuals, households and families who will appreciate its detailed instructions and easy onscreen commands, and as such amahi fills a particular market need. Amahi has the best media, backup and web apps for small networks. The hdadiskmount command will also give you the line you need to add to etcfstab to automatically have the drive mounted every. The amahi project prides itself on making installation easy, the ui simple, and operations easy to understand. Ive got a amahi home server with greyhole drive pooling and lms logitechsqueezebox media server and a lot of other servicesservers but none of those are critical i dont want a heavily customized setup because my knowhow is not that great anymore getting old.
Jul 31, 2017 the greyhole queue keeps getting stuck in endless loops where it repeats the same small set of commands over and over. Either wait for midnight, or launch it manually, from a command line, as root. Now go to the shares storage pool tab and check the box next to your new hard drive to use the drive in the greyhole pool. When you first transfer files to the system, it lands in a landing zone which is the os disk, and then greyhole spreads the files out on the data disks. Disable the watchdog and press the big red stop button. We think you are going to love the wonderful new features of amahi 8, even though most of the work that went on it is not visible in plain sight. To get stats about disks usage, use the greyhole stats command.
Amahi, on the other hand, uses greyhole technology to implement storage pooling. This past week our app master has made an effort of testing more apps that are ready for release and the team has unleashed several new and highly sought after apps for amahi 6 on the latest ubuntu 12. You should provide the following in a text file or use fpaste please do not post excessive amounts ot text content in the forums. It also allows you to create redundant copies from 2 to whatever the maxnumber of disks you have in. Another option, detailed below, is to create a greyhole trash share. Jan 18, 2017 here is a guide on how to remote access a mac from another computer to get your files, to complete a task using a more powerful computer or simply a program that is only on one mac. I noticed that if i copy files to a share on my amahi server the file creation datetime isnt preserved, the copy takes the datetime of the moment the copy took place. If you arrived here after a fresh amahi install, your network may need a few adjustments in order to make your amahi hda fully functional.
It is very important you dont touch the drives folder within varhdafiles if. Often when we are out and about with our laptops, we may need have forgotten a file from our home computer earlier in the day. This conclusion was reached after a fruitless install of the latest amahi 7 installation on the 500 gb system drive, included with the ex470. Feb 06, 2014 if you have an old computer with some life left in it, or youre building a doitall home server, amahi is the perfect utility for the job. Amahi for ubuntu protected assist for 32 and 64bit machines, and had additional cloud garage through amahi synch. I use greyhole for drive pooling and automatically distributing files across the pool.
Now that its installed, heres how to manage your drives, shares, and storage pool. After backing up the windows home server to a single external 2 tb drive talk about nervewracking. Greyhole uses samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives, and. Setting up an amahi home server adding a drive to your server. I had a htpc with a decent amount of storage for it to do its thing. Whatnottoputingreyholeshares gboudreaugreyhole wiki github. Whatnottoputingreyholeshares gboudreaugreyhole wiki. Macbook doesnt support remote network booting using the pxe protocol that amahi s backup process supports. You can choose between periodic windows and mac backups or a full network disk backup. Cannot see amahi hda on my network after windows 10 update post by bigfoot65. Theres even a command line utility, hdadiskmount that will give you the line to add to the bottom of fstab. The integration amahi did eases some of the management, like it doesnt require you to edit the greyhole. How to create a linux nas with amahi addictivetips. Apr 04, 20 ive been using amahi for about a year now fedora.
Mar 27, 2016 actually, you can use ubuntu desktop if you are more comfortable with the gui and you will still be able to use it as a server if you know your way around. Turn an old pc into a nas, vpn, media streamer, and more with. Apr 06, 2020 openmediavault is the next generation network attached storage nas solution based on debian linux. Greyhole uses samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives irrespective of their size or theyre connected. Do this from the amahi console settingsservers greyhole. In fact, you could probably take an old computer and turn it into a media center. Amahi time machine is an app that provides a backup facility that is compatible with mac os x time machine or similar afpbased backup tools immediately after being installed, amahi time machine makes your amahi storage available as a time machine target disk. Tips and best practices for the use of greyhole with amahi. In this article, well go over how to install amahi 10 and set up a complete linux nas with it.
I had a few external usb drives connected to my rt66u router for files i wanted everyone to access. If you would still like to setup your greyhole pool manually, please see manual greyhole setup. Awhile back, i had read about greyhole being an alternative to windows home server drive extender, and finally decided to check it out. But the second command could not be entered, because no more input could be done. Blow away the contents of your landing zone shares. Amahi runs through fedora 25 server, so the first step is to install that. Amahi home server build and setup thepaullingworkshop.
That means youll need to manually empty it once in a while. Amahi can turn any pc into an athome vpn, a nas for all of your files, and more. Guidpartitioned hard drives such as those previously used in a mac or have gpt. Amahi root disk full i just got done setting up amahi on my hp ml10v2 and decided to move all my media to the amahi server. Greyhole an application that uses samba to create a storage pool of all your available hard drives whatever their size, however theyre connected, and allows you to create redundant copies of the files you store, in order to prevent data loss when part of your hardware fails. I had issues with the landing zone being too small, so i was able to increase that by moving the lz to one of my 5 tb drives. We realize that installing is the hardest part of getting your amahi server running.
The reason amahi wont work well with running off a usb drive is because if the way greyhole works. Amahi makes it very easy for both server experts and newbies to setup and run a featureful home server with relatively less work and time but in a intuitive graphical web interface. If you decide against ever using greyhole, your storage drivespartitions may mount. All greyhole commands must be executed as root user or prefixed with sudo. This greyhole ui app is an amahi plugin to provide a user interface ui to the drive pooling technology greyhole. Amahi root disk full posted in the homeserver community. Steps for changing hardware on your amahi server i. Amahi promises that you really dont need a kickass device to be able to stream on its platform. Trying to install amahi for nas, cant even get fedora 25. This release can shut down or reboot your amahi hda remotely from the dashboard. Obtain spare disks if you dont have any spare hard disks, youll need to remove at least one disk from your old whs, to use as the starting point of your greyhole pool. Aug 06, 2014 although amahi is not particularly suited to the more sophisticated needs of businesses or professionals, it is a capable product for individuals, households and families who will appreciate its detailed instructions and easy onscreen commands, and as such amahi fills a particular market need. It includes fixes in user creation due to a fedora issue, dns resolution across the vpn, a much improved diskmounter script, improvements to the installer vpss and many smaller fixes. Install ubuntu server until you reboot and are at the command line.
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