Required Hardware

• Raspberry Pi
• Power Supply
• microSD card
• Screen
• HDMI cable
• Keyboard
• Mouse
• Network Connection
• External hard drive

Installation and Setup of Raspberry OS

Write Image to microSD card

At first we are going to install Raspberry Pi OS (or as it was previously named Raspbian) by writing the image to the microSD card. They provide a simple Imager tool for multiple operating systems like Windows, macOS and Ubuntu. You can download it here

After downloading the Imager application, simply execute the setup and start the installation:

After the installation is completed, you can open the application on your system. Then you can select the operating system which should be written to the SD card. Now you can select the target, which is of course the microSD card of the Raspberry Pi.

After pressing Write, you can see the progress of writing the image to the SD card on the bottom.

When the image has been written to the SD card, the image is getting verified:

If verification is completed, you can remove the SD card from the card reader or laptop and insert it into your Raspberry Pi.

Configuration of Raspberry Pi OS

When you have inserted the SD card to your raspberry, you can also connect a keyboard, a mouse, a screen and a network cable if possible. Then you can connect the power supply to boot it. At the first start, the operating system will get installed. This will take a few minutes, but not too long. After that, you can continue with the basic configuration which is pretty straightforward. You can define things like time and date, keyboard layout, WiFi Connection and so on. I would also suggest you to change the password of the default user “pi” to your personal one.

Establish a SSH/VNC connection

In the configuration of your Raspberry Pi you can also enable services. I suggest you to enable at least the following 2 services: SSH and VNC so you can remotely connect to your device from your laptop. This has also the advantage that you do not need anything attached at your Raspberry Pi (like screen, mouse or keyboard).

After activating the SSH service in the configuration, you can use your favourite SSH client. I am using MobaXterm. Simply enter the IP address of the Pi, specify the username “pi” and your personalized password. You have to use the default SSH port 22.

If you see the following output, you connected successfully to your Raspberry Pi via Secure Shell!

Another possibility is to use the VNC connection if you want the graphical user interface (GUI) of the Raspberry Pi OS. To establish a VNC connection, you need additional software like RealVNC. After installing the application, start it and enter the remote IP address of the Pi:

Then you are able to see the video output of your Raspberry Pi OS and can do everything there.

Installation of OpenMediaVault (OMV)

Now, after the setup and configuration of Raspberry Pi OS is completed, we can finally move on to the installation of our NAS software OpenMediaVault. The basic installation is truly simple, because we just need to execute one line of script in the Pi command line:

wget -O - https://github.com/OpenMediaVault-Plugin-Developers/installScript/raw/master/install | sudo bash

This line of code will directly start the install script for OMV5. Basically there is no action needed from our side. So, grab a coffee or something like that because this will take up to a hour to complete. After starting it, you will see this screen:

During the execution, you might see a lot of packages getting installed on your system:

If you were patient enough to let it finish, you will finally see this screen, where the SSH connection gets lost because of a reboot of the device. When the Pi is running again, the installation of OpenMediaVault5 NAS Raspberry Pi is completed!

OpenMediaVault Web Interface

OpenMediaVault will automatically start when your Raspberry Pi boots up. You can access the web interface by simply entering the IP address of the Pi into your web browser on your laptop e.g. in the same network. In my case it is http://192.168.8.112/
The default login is:
Username: admin
Password: openmediavault

The web interface looks like that:

So, this was the guide to get OpenMediaVault5 NAS Raspberry Pi running. I will go into detail on using it as a NAS in another article, but I need some more time to write it. Hope to see you soon again on my site.

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Basically it is a very simple script, but I will quickly go through it. Of course you need to define the UNC path to the file share or folder. Then you will loop through all the existing directories with a Foreach. At each folder you will get the permissions with Get-ACL. Then you need another Foreach to get through all the granted permissions which are inherited or directly set. Then you will add each line to your report and finally export it as a CSV file for further processing. That’s it!

$FolderPath = dir -Directory -Path "\\fileserver\fileshare"
$Report = @()
Foreach ($Folder in $FolderPath) {
$Acl = Get-Acl -Path $Folder.FullName
foreach ($Access in $acl.Access)
{
$Properties = [ordered]@{'FolderName'=$Folder.FullName;'AD
Group or
User'=$Access.IdentityReference;'Permissions'=$Access.FileSystemRights;'Inherited'=$Access.IsInherited}
$Report += New-Object -TypeName PSObject -Property $Properties
}
}
$Report | Export-Csv -path "C:\scripts\FolderPermissions.csv"

You can extend this script by sending the report as email message directly via PowerShell, look here. You can also create a scheduled task / cronjob for this script to Generate ACL Report FileShare periodically.

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Last time I had the task to copy massive amounts of data between two file share systems. With massive amounts I talk about Terabytes 🙂 In addition, one of the systems was productive and the other one the new system, so the solution needed to be reliable and stable. So I asked myself, how can I transfer these files and folders? The answer is Robocopy: How to Copy Massive Amounts of Data

So I tried several things and had a look at the possibilites of the systems. I ended up using the simple Robocopy command with the file shares. Of course the client/server executing the Robocopy command had to be in the same local network in order to ensure a good copy speed.

Robocopy offers you the opportunity to define a lot of parameters for your copy job. For example you can define if the Access Control List (NTFS Permissions) should be copied to the destination host, or if you want to create the Access Groups from scratch. Imagine that on the old system there was a lot of direct access set for the users instead of Active Directory groups – in this case building the Access Groups from scratch can be very helpful to get a clean file share.
Another great thing about Robocopy is that it has basically a Resume option because it copies only the changed or new files after comparing source and destination host.

The Robocopy Command

But let’s talk about the command itself which is pretty simple and you can fulfill nearly all requirements with a One-Liner!

Basically you can split the command as following:

• Source
• Destination
• Source Options
• Copy Options

So let’s start with the probably most basic command. We want to copy a local directory from one partition to another

robocopy c:\temp\test d:\temp\

This simple command will copy the folder test and all files to the location d:\temp – but not subfolders!

Copy Everything (including permissions)

If you simply want to copy everything (also subfolders, empty subfolders, file owners) from the source to destination including the NTFS permission (Windows Access Control list) you can use this command.

robocopy c:\temp\test d:\temp\ /E /COPYALL

Copying over Network

If you want to use the Robocopy command for copying over the network, like in my case, I recommend you to use the following options and switches to get a good result.

/E -> copy all subfolders, including empty ones.
/V -> produce Verbose output, showing skipped files.
/ZB -> use restartable mode; if access denied use Backup mode.
/R:1 -> number of Retries on failed copies
/W:1 -> Wait time between retries: default is 30 seconds
/NP -> No Progress – don’t display percentage copied.
/COPYALL -> COPY ALL file info (equivalent to /COPY: DATSOU)
/LOG -> LOG location

robocopy \\source_share\folder \\destination_share\folder /E /V /ZB /R:1 /W:1 /NP /COPYALL /LOG:c:\robocopy.log

So, this ultimative copy job will copy all subfolders, copy all file information, produces verbose output to show skipped files, will retry failed copies and uses the restartable mode with backup mode in case of failed access. In Addition a log file will be generated with all the details of every single file copied. It is simply great! 🙂

Source: https://community.netapp.com/t5/Data-ONTAP-Discussions/Fileserver-Migration-with-robocopy/td-p/118615

Please find the whole documentation of the Robocopy command directly at Microsoft Docs
Robocopy: How to Copy Massive Amounts of Data

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The difference to other Raspberry Pi images is that they offer .img.xz files, which can be written directly to the SD card without decompressing. To write the image to the SD card, the application balenaEtcher is available for different operating systems and also in a portable version, thus you do not need to install the application:
https://www.balena.io/etcher/

At first, select the downloaded image and the target device (should be the microSD card of your Raspberry):

Now, the flashing process is running:

After completion, you should see the following screen:

Great! After flashing the image to the SD card, the installation of the system will be completed after first start of your Raspberry Pi. This can take a few minutes. Please note that a network connection is required during this installation procedure. After one more reboot, the system is ready to use.
The system can be accessed via the Web Interface. Simply enter the IP address of the Pi in your browser. The default login data for the web interface is:
admin :: openmediavault

The default login data for a SSH connection is:
root :: openmediavault

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