{"id":129,"date":"2023-12-19T09:51:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T09:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.8.136\/wordpress\/?p=129"},"modified":"2024-01-22T09:52:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T08:52:14","slug":"rpi-nas-part-8-software-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mpr-projects.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/19\/rpi-nas-part-8-software-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"RPi NAS: Part 8 Software Setup [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the previous posts we covered the hardware related aspects that matter for this NAS, now we can finally set up our system! This post contains a video that goes through the process of setting up a Raspberry Pi and installing and configuring Greyhole.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>This post is part of a series about building a Network-Attached Storage (NAS) with redundancy using a Raspberry Pi (RPi). See <a href=\"https:\/\/mpr-projects.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/13\/building-a-raspberry-pi-nas-with-data-redundancy-part-1-overview\/#RPi_NAS_Post_List\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"8\">here<\/a> for a list of all posts in this series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);margin-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Setting up the NAS involves a lot of steps, which are much more easily demonstrated in a video than in a written blog post. The video below includes the basic setup. There are a few more topics to discuss after this basic setup. We&#8217;ll do that in a few more (written, i.e. non-video) posts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Raspberry Pi Network Attached Storage with Data Redundancy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OWfHN7gpUTI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A quick comment about option &#8216;nofail&#8217; in the file system table (fstab):<br>With the option <code>nofail<\/code> our storage drives may not be mounted automatically on boot, even if they are connected. To ensure that they do get mounted open cron with<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo crontab -e<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>and add the following line<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>@reboot mount -a<\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the previous posts we covered the hardware related aspects that matter for this NAS, now we can finally set up our system! This post contains a video that goes through the process of setting up a Raspberry Pi and installing and configuring Greyhole. Setting up the NAS involves a lot of steps, which are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"wp-custom-template-single-post-cc","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[9,7,4,5,18],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","category-projects","tag-data-safety","tag-greyhole","tag-linux","tag-raspberry-pi","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpr-projects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpr-projects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpr-projects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpr-projects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpr-projects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/mpr-projects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/mpr-projects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpr-projects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mpr-projects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpr-projects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mpr-projects.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}