I am also noticing this as I try to back up aprox 2TB of data. I think I saw some discussion somewhere that dropping back to Debian 5/Lenny helped with the...
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highgroundviva
Jan 12, 2012 1:07 am
I'm trying to backup my HPMV2120 via Rsync to a USB drive attached to my Ubuntu 10.04 pc and am having issues. I have used ipkg to install rsync and openssh on...
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JohnB
blakejoh
Feb 25, 2012 2:28 am
I would like to install the NTP package on my MV2, but I thought it would be good to see if anyone in the group has experiences with it that they would like to...
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michael_peter_thompson
michael_pete...
Mar 3, 2012 7:43 pm
I have both a used MV2120 and a new Western Digital Green WD20EARX 2TB hard drive on order that I hope to use as a network attached backup device in my home....
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Daryl Winsinger
darylwinsinger
Mar 4, 2012 2:02 am
You will want to find a smaller drive to put the /boot partition on. I have one of the WD20EARS drives and have not gotten it to boot off that yet. I have the...
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michael_peter_thompson
michael_pete...
Mar 4, 2012 4:22 pm
Thanks for the confirmation. I've suspected as much after reading some of the threads on here after I placed the order for the MV2120 and hard drive. I've...
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Daryl Winsinger
darylwinsinger
Mar 6, 2012 2:24 am
I haven't looked at the source code HP published. I am not currently using the device, and I have never tried messing with uboot before to update the firmware...
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michael_peter_thompson
michael_pete...
Mar 6, 2012 2:50 pm
OK, I'll report back with how it works for me. BTW, I'm buying the MV2120 from a lot for $12 each + shipping on eBay. My hope is that they just had the hard...
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michael_peter_thompson
michael_pete...
Mar 10, 2012 3:48 am
... I just posted about my recent experience with getting an MV2120 booting from a new 2 TB Western Digital Green Hard Drive WD20EARX, but the post hasn't gone...
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michael_peter_thompson
michael_pete...
Mar 10, 2012 3:48 am
I finally figured it out. I now have my MV2120 installed and booting off of a 2 TB Western Digital Caviar Green Hard Drive WD20EARX. To get it to work, I had...
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helrazr67
Mar 10, 2012 3:50 am
... Hey folks, IS there a link you'd be willing to share for these lot buys? As well is there an easy way to buy the drive sleds for the extra slot?...
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Daryl Winsinger
darylwinsinger
Mar 11, 2012 3:36 am
That's great Mike! I pulled my MV off the shelf last night and after fighting with the windows gui under win7 to upload the netboot image, I gave up and SSHed...
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michael_peter_thompson
michael_pete...
Mar 11, 2012 4:34 pm
... I'm glad it worked out for you. It does seem odd the way it works. It would have saved me a number of hours of head scratching and a very late night if...
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michael_peter_thompson
michael_pete...
Mar 13, 2012 10:31 pm
... I bought two MV2120's from the following auction on eBay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/280658962203 I made an offer to the seller and he accepted so the cost...
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michael_peter_thompson
michael_pete...
Mar 13, 2012 10:31 pm
Does someone know of a source for spare trays for the MV2120? I read on the Media Vault FAQ that it uses the KINGWIN KF-91-T-BK trays, but I guess these are...
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Rump, Rick
rickispapa
Mar 15, 2012 9:21 pm
Well, having made the jump to OSX, and with Lion only supporting AFP on its TimeMachine drives, does anyone know of an open source solution for APF on the...
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Rcomm-Rick Rcomm
rickrcomm@...
Mar 15, 2012 9:22 pm
Having switched over to a Mac with Lion OSX, is there any Debian solution that provides AFP support? Thanks, Rick...
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Jonathan A. Kollasch
jakllsch
Mar 15, 2012 9:22 pm
... You might expand your search to include Media Smart trays too. The MV2 tray and Media Smart trays are compatible if not identical. I found some on a eBay...
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michael_peter_thompson
michael_pete...
Mar 16, 2012 12:54 am
I have my MV2120 with Debian Squeeze serving as a TimeMachine for my Mac OSX Lion system. The solution for me was to backport the Netatalk 2.2.x package from...
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michael_peter_thompson
michael_pete...
Mar 16, 2012 12:54 am
To the files area of this group, I added the Debian Squeeze backported Netatalk 2.2 package with support for AFP 3.3 required by Mac OSX 10.7 Lion. When using...
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Lee Devlin
lee810
Mar 16, 2012 12:56 am
I had noticed that Mike Thompson mentioned netatalk on this forum the other day, and so I have experimented with using ipkg to install it from the optware...
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michael_peter_thompson
michael_pete...
Mar 16, 2012 3:36 am
Thanks Janathan, that is the type of information I was looking for. I don't see any on eBay for sale right now, but I'll keep my eyes open. I was able to...
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Damen Redelings
damen_red
Mar 16, 2012 2:59 pm
If you could, that would be awesome, I tried to do this recently for the same reason but it looks like I don't have enough space to install netatalk and...
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Rick
rickrcomm
Mar 16, 2012 2:59 pm
Lee, Thanks. I would like to try adding it to the HP image. When you get a chance, appreciate your comments. Thanks, Rick...
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Rick
rickrcomm
Mar 16, 2012 2:59 pm
Thanks, Mike. I will give that a shot if Lee's method of adding AFP to the HP image doesn't work for me. Appreciate you posting all the info. Rick...
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lee810
Mar 16, 2012 11:32 pm
... OK, I've put up a preliminary set of instructions to install Netatalk on the MV2 here: http://k0lee.com/hpmediavault/MV2_FAQ/MV2_FAQ.html#afpd I probably...
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lee810
Mar 17, 2012 1:31 am
It looks like the MV2 is overwriting the /etc/passwd file on bootup, so more work will be needed to make this work between boots. -Lee...
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Chris Seto
aximbigfan
Mar 17, 2012 5:21 am
/etc/passwd is actually embedded in the PHP bootup subsystem somewhere, but I cannot remember where. It's been a really long time since I have messed with...
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Lee Devlin
lee810
Mar 17, 2012 10:00 pm
There is a file in /etc/inc called func_user.inc that creates the /etc/passwd file on each bootup from information it finds stored in an xml configuration...
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michael_peter_thompson
michael_pete...
Mar 21, 2012 4:27 am
I've only run Debian Squeeze on my MV2120, but my impression is that the disk performance is slower than expected. When performing large block copies from one...
