2025-01-10, 03:43 AM
Well, I'm crying in my beer right now. I had a lot of video stored on my NAS. I installed JellyFin and things were going great. I hadn't done any updates to the Linux system for years and I was just dumb and happy. I was getting notices that I needed to update the OS so I decided to do it. Well during the process, I lost the OS. I looked around since I'm not too well versed on Linux, I wanted to see what was out there. I decided to install OpenMediaVault but I was never able to get my RAID back. I spent three days working on it and probably because I didn't know enough to recover it correctly, I have lost all of my video collection and all of my home movies and a whole lot more. Most of the Home Videos I will be able to recover from the original tapes if the player still works. Of course all the titles, intros and editing that I have done is all lost. I have my photos stored on Amazon Photos so those are recoverable but I cannot imagine the thousands of hours of work I've lost.
Anyway, I've ordered a new SSD to install the OS onto since the old SSD seems to be what caused the failure, it had developed some bad sectors. So, I'm trying to decide between OpenMediaVault or TrueNAS as the primary OS for the server. I was running Ubuntu Server before but I like the idea of the GUI interface that both OMV & TrueNAS offer. Does anyone have any experience with either and can give me a little encouragement on which way to go?
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Bill
Anyway, I've ordered a new SSD to install the OS onto since the old SSD seems to be what caused the failure, it had developed some bad sectors. So, I'm trying to decide between OpenMediaVault or TrueNAS as the primary OS for the server. I was running Ubuntu Server before but I like the idea of the GUI interface that both OMV & TrueNAS offer. Does anyone have any experience with either and can give me a little encouragement on which way to go?
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
Bill