OpenMediaVault and NextCloud – NAS and private cloud storage

All-in-One Dropbox alternative - Your secure private cloud storage hosted on a self-made NAS with data protection.

Created by: Daniel Botescu
IT Professional

What Will I Learn?

• Learn how to gather the necessary components for their own private cloud storage
• Learn how to install the OpenMediaVault NAS distro
• Learn how to configure basic parameters on your new OpenMediaVault NAS system
• Learn how to improve the security of your new NAS ans also work with certificates on the system
• Learn how to configure network settings and also how to work with the firewall
• Learn how to configure notification settings, how to gather monitoring statistics and how to save power with advanced power management settings
• Learn how to configure scheduled jobs and how to keep OpenMediaVault updated
• Learn about plugins and how to harness their power for more functionality
• Learn how to configure and manage storage on your OpenMediaVault NAS
• Work with access rights and manage privileges on the system
• Configure the antivirus plugin, the FTP server, the NFS server, the SSH server and the SMB server
• Learn how to perform backups of your OpenMediaVault system to keep your data safe
• Leverage the Virtualbox plugin to run virtual machines on top of your OpenMediaVault NAS
• Learn how to work with and configure the MySQL and NGINX servers and prepare them to host NextCloud
• Learn how to monitor the system and resolve problems with the help of system diagnostics
• Install NextCloud on top of your OpenMediaVault NAS
• Fix post-install issues you might encounter
• Perform administrative configurations on your new NextCloud install
• Define and work with users and groups on your NextCloud system
• Learn how to harness your new private cloud storage by working with both the web client and the desktop client and understanting what they offer

Requirements

• Basic networking knowledge
• Basic linux knowledge
• Basic computer file storage knwoledge
• Desire to learn

Target audience

• Anyone interested in understanding how to build their own NAS and Private cloud file storage system
• Anyone interested in understanding how to work with the OpenMediaVault NAS distro
• Anyone interested in understanding how to work with the NextCloud client-server software suite