OpenMediaVault VS NextCloudPi

So I'm working on a similar setup with an ancient desktop my in-laws were getting rid of. I installed OpenMediaVault directly to the hard drive (it's so old that I assume it wouldn't work too well as a hypervisor), with a 4TB external HDD attached. OMV supports Docker by means of a plug-in and I'm running a Jellyfin container with no issues at all. I'm still manually downloading everything to the HDD but *arr containers are my next step, as well as setting up a gluetun container to route all that through a VPN.

The second is storage. If you need any of the storage sharing, deploy NAS OS as the VM in proxmox, like Starwinds SAN and NAS (https://www.starwindsoftware.com/san-and-nas) or OMV (https://www.openmediavault.org/), or TrueNAS (https://www.truenas.com/). As you mentioned, you need to cross-flash the perc into IT mode and pass through the controller into VM, but you need a separate from the controller drive for proxmox to be able to PCI-E passthrough the card into VM. Then, configure software RAID and reshare the storage to the proxmox via NFS/iSCSI (that will improve your skills in storage stack and storage protocols).

If you want all that in one, I would go with Proxmox and everything else as VMs or containers on it. NAS can also be run as a VM. For example, Starwinds NAS: https://www.starwindsoftware.com/san-and-nas or openmediavault: https://www.openmediavault.org/. I would try to add more RAM for sure though.

I have Open Media Vault installed on a Raspberry PI. I choose that because also wanted to run some docker images and wanted something cheap. However, if you’re not tech savvy I recommend Synology.

Open Media Vault

To build a NAS, you can set up a Linux VM with LVM, ZFS, Btrfs or deploy a pre-built solution like Openmediavault https://www.openmediavault.org/, EasyNAS https://easynas.org/, Starwinds SAN&NAS https://www.starwindsoftware.com/san-and-nas-free to passthrough the direct-attached storage to NAS VM, create a pool, and expose it to your network as SMB or NFS file shares, or iSCSI storage.

1) VMs are out of the question. Your CPU is too old to run VMs. 2) This could be a very powerful firewall, router, and privacy cleanser. Check out OPNsense or pfSense 3) Could definitely run as a NAS! Not a powerful one. An easy one to get started with is Open Media Vault.

Unless you've got another project in mind for your Pi4 (and who doesn't?), I enjoyed (mostly) my time running an OpenMediaVault machine (I was running Plex and a couple of minecraft servers on it). Here's a guide for installing pihole on an OMV machine, and this guy has a TON of useful tutorial videos around all kinds of neat stuff you can do with OMV (as well as initial setup/config vids).

I would just go with Proxmox and run Plex, game server and NAS as VMs. For a NAS, take a look at StarWinds SAN and NAS or TrueNAS Core if you want ZFS. 16GB of RAM might be a bit scarce for everything but still worth a shot. There's also openmediavault that requires minimum RAM.

Just installed on my pi today, If I knew what I was doing I would use docker, but at the same time, I don't want my bad docker skills to make me end up losing my files. I downloaded mine from the github. https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi/releases

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Issue 2 still persists and after digging around found this issue reported on git https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi/issues/1752 but cant figure out how to sort it

I tried nextcloud on raspberry pi long time ago, and there was one image file for this on Homepage nextcloudpi or Github nextcloudpi As I remember it was very easy to setup maintain and Update.

Nextcloud is functionally similar to Dropbox, Office 365 or Google Drive but is self-hosted so you are in control of your data. This version is a lightly-forked version of NextCloudPi, which was developed for SBCs like the Raspberry Pi. Only a few changes from upstream and some SysV initscripts were required to get this working nicely in Linux Deploy.

About installing the instance, I recommend using Docker (in particular, use docker-compose.yaml files instead of running docker commands) - an all-in-one setup is available by using Docker -> https://github.com/nextcloud/all-in-one/ - a lighter all-in-one with only Nextcloud and features to make it available online -> https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi - if you want Nextcloud only locally -> https://github.com/nextcloud/docker#base-version---apache (this is a good example of what you can put inside a docker-compose.yaml file)

Lightly-forked version of NextCloudPi. There's only a few changes and some SysV initscripts required to get this working nicely in Linux Deploy.

I am a bit of a noob, but I have successfully used [nextcloudPI](https://github.com/nextcloud/nextcloudpi) for years running on a raspberry pi.nextcloudPI