Although not exclusively, openmediavault is largely intended for usage in home offices or small offices. With this straightforward and user-friendly out-of-the-box solution, anyone can install and manage a network attached storage without requiring advanced knowledge. Therefore, this is the ideal solution for those who want to easily build and manage the equipment needed to make some storage available over the local network. Due to its Ethernet and USB 3.0 connections, Raspberry Pi is the ideal operating system for it. I’ll be utilizing a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B with 4GB of RAM, although this amount is definitely excessive for the task at hand, so I’ll probably switch to one with far less memory. Only 3.1% of the memory is now being utilised beyond 4GB. We have mentioned steps below to Install OpenMediaVault on a Raspberry Pi
Steps to Install OpenMediaVault on a Raspberry Pi
Open a terminal window and connect to your Raspberry Pi 4 over SSH. If you’re on the latest version of Windows 11 you can use the cmd terminal or Powershell. If not you will need PuTTY. Follow our installation guide here. Connect to your Raspberry Pi over SSH on Linux type. The first thing we need to do is to update and upgrade the Raspberry Pi OS to ensure it has all the latest package updates installed.
Type the following into your terminal to execute the OMV bash install script from Github (Note the installation can take up to 30 minutes to complete).
Final Words
We hope like our article on How to Install OpenMediaVault on a Raspberry Pi. OpenMediaVault is a NAS solution that’s based on Debian Linux. It offers loads of various options and more importantly, operates really well on a Raspberry Pi! The creation of multiple OpenMediaVault tutorials is my aim.
