Install OpenMediaVault on Banana Pi Pro with Bananian

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banana-pi-openmediavaultOpenMediaVault is an excellent NAS software solution. It sports a beautiful web interface to manage all of your services, hard drives, users and more. There is a great plugin system which allows you to install software for usenet, torrent and media management. The Banana Pi has a Plex Media Server plugin and OwnCloud. This a step by step install guide and I have released an image which is as vanilla as possible: Bananian with Port Multiplier support and OpenMediaVault installed.

Install OpenMediaVault on Banana Pi

Install sudo if you don't have it already, you should have a regular non-root user with sudo powers. If you run everything as root anyway install sudo just to make this guide copy and paste friendly

apt-get install sudo -y

Update and upgrade packages first

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y

Disable green LED on Banana Pi with Bananian because it blinks a lot and is annoying.

Open the rc.local file first

nano /etc/rc.local

Add this line above exit 0 to turn that green light off

echo none > /sys/class/leds/green\:ph24\:led1/trigger

Ctrl+X, Y and Enter to save rc.local

Add the OpenMediaVault repository and grab the gpg key

echo "deb http://packages.openmediavault.org/public kralizec main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openmediavault.list
wget -O - http://packages.openmediavault.org/public/archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

Update and install OpenMediaVault including a keyring and postfix (for mail)

General mail configuration I chose no configuration since I don't want mail

For MD arrays I chose none and told it not to start the service at boot and told proftpd to run from inetd

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openmediavault-keyring postfix -y --force-yes
sudo apt-get install php-apc openmediavault -y --force-yes

Install OpenMediaVault Extras Plugins

The OpenMediaVault Extras plugins has all of the goodies like CouchPotato, SickRage, SickBeard, NZBGet, Sabnzbd, Plex Media Server and Sonarr (should be added soon) so you will likely want this awesome repository.

echo "deb http://packages.omv-extras.org/debian/ kralizec main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/omv-extras-org-kralizec.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openmediavault-omvextrasorg -y --force-yes

Start nginx service

sudo service nginx start

Try to access OpenMediaVault at http://ip.address, the default login is admin with password openmediavault

Initialize the OpenMediaVault system, this disables SSH but you can enable it again from the Web interface

sudo omv-initsystem

Hard drive and storage tweaks

Turn off swap to preserve the life of your SD card and not use the slow write rate as temporary RAM

sudo swapoff -a

Enable sleeping spindown on hard drives

sudo nano /etc/hdparm.conf

Add this to the bottom for your USB drive to spin down every 10 minutes of inactivity (120*5=600) or you can edit the options in the OpenMediaVault gui directly

/dev/sda {
spindown_time = 120
}

Disable caching processes to save the sd card's life (not necessary according to an OMV developer if you use the flashmemory plugin)

sudo update-rc.d rrdcached disable
sudo update-rc.d collectd disable
sudo monit stop rrdcached
sudo monit stop collectd

Setup security patch upgrades to install automatically with a cronjob that will run every night

sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades -y
crontab -l | { cat; echo "@daily apt-get update && unattended-upgrade"; } | crontab -

Install the openmediavault-flashmemory plugin in the web interface which will also extend the life of your sd card.

OpenMediaVault at http://ip.address, the default login is admin with password openmediavault

Instructions borrowed from here

Bananian with SATA Port Multiplier Image

Update OpenMediaVault on the Banana Pi in SSH

omv-update
omv-upgrade