Cloud storage from old hard HHD Drives

one, two, three four five six seven I have all 7 old hard disks Among them, I can choose 3 good hard disks with larger capacity One of them is a solid-state hard disk with a rather small capacity of 60GB Next are two hard disks,

each with the same capacity of 500GB The solid-state drive will be used as the boot disk Two traditional hard disks used to store data I am eagerly waiting, do you want to help me make that dream come true? Let's continue with the purpose of this content Because my computer can only install up to 3 hard disks,

I only choose 3 hard disks You can add more hard disks if your computer can Please note to choose a solid-state drive to boot and install the operating system The operating system used in this video is Ubuntu server To install the ubuntu

 server operating system on the target computer I have prepared an 8GB USB stick To install the ubuntu server operating system on the target computer I have prepared an 8GB USB stick You can use a 4GB USB stick for this You go to the ubuntu home page and download the latest installer So that you don't have to wait long, I have pre-downloaded the latest iso file of the ubuntu server

 operating system So that you don't have to wait long, I have pre-downloaded the latest iso file of the ubuntu server operating system I use Rufus tool to create Ubuntu Server installer You open the rufus application select the usb stick and browse to the iso file downloaded to the computer before to create the ubuntu server installer You open the rufus application select the usb stick and browse to the iso file downloaded to the computer before to create the ubuntu server

 installer It will take about 10 minutes to create the installation usb stick you want Then remember to safely remove the usb to avoid data loss Next, you plug the usb stick into the target computer to install the ubuntu server operating system For the target computer you need to configure to boot from the usb stick

With each manufacturer, the way to access the BIOS will be different As for my computer, when I turn on the computer, I repeatedly press the Delete key to access the BIOS As for my computer, when I turn on the computer,

I repeatedly press the Delete key to access the BIOS In the motherboard management page you change the boot order to the usb stick With my USB stick, I choose SRT USB 1100 You save your changes and restart your computer It will take about a minute for us to start the installation

 You will be asked to choose a language, I choose English Next is to choose the keyboard type, I choose English US You need to assign a static ip address to your computer So you choose manual setting Depending on the ip address range you are using, assign the ip address accordingly I will assign the computer ip address 10.11.32.47 For ubuntu server,

 the way to assign the address is different from Windows OS, so you configure it correctly Next we merge 3 hard disks into a single hard disk for maximum cloud capacity With the storage configuration you choose Custom storage layout With the storage configuration you first delete all existing partitions on the hard disks You delete the partitions of the hard disk

 by selecting each hard disk and selecting Reformat Because all 3 of my hard disks have partitions so I configured to reformat each hard disk I finished deleting all partitions of all 3 hard disks Next, select the bootable hard disk For the operating system to boot quickly, choose a solid-state drive to boot Here I have a solid state hard drive with actual capacity of 55G and

 I choose it as my boot hard disk Select solid state hard disk, select use as boot device Continuing with the solid state drive, you create a new partition called swap You set the swap partition size to be half of your computer's physical RAM This partition acts as virtual RAM for the Ubuntu operating

 system when you use up your computer's physical RAM This partition acts as virtual RAM for the Ubuntu operating system when you use up your computer's physical RAM Next, you in turn create partitions for the hard disks For each hard disk you choose free space Add GPT partition You format

the partition as Leave unformatted You repeat with all 3 hard disks Then each hard disk will have a new partition with a capacity equal to the maximum capacity of the hard disk Next you will merge these three partitions into a new partition Create software RAID With RAID configuration you have many

 configuration ways But for the purpose of aggregating the capacity of all partitions, you choose Raid 0 striped Next you use the spacebar to select all 3 partitions to merge them together With two 500GB traditional hard drives and one 60GB solid state drive, I've got a new partition with a capacity of 986GB

 With two 500GB traditional hard drives and one 60GB solid state drive, I've got a new partition with a capacity of 986GB You choose the newly created partition, Add GPT partition You create a new boot partition Set up 1G capacity for the boot partition With the remaining free space you create a new partition Partitioning the hard disk and merging multiple hard disks

 into one is done Next you will be asked to create an administrative account for the Ubuntu server operating system You write it down to use in the next steps To get remote access to ubuntu server don't forget to enable openssh server In the list of recommended installation software you choose next cloud,

this is an open source application to build a great personal cloud In the list of recommended installation software you choose nextcloud, this is an open source application to build a great personal cloud Now that you have set up the necessary things, the installation of the ubuntu server operating system on the target computer begins Now that you have set up the necessary things,

 the installation of the ubuntu server operating system on the target computer begins It will take about 10 minutes to complete the installation Once the installation is complete, you will be asked to reboot your device You press the Enter key to continue You need to access your motherboard's BIOS again to correct the boot order

 Now you will have the computer boot from the solid state drive Here you can remove the installation usb stick from the target computer You save the changes and start the computer It will take about 5 minutes for the computer to finish booting up completely At this step you will need information such as the ip address and admin account of the ubuntu server From another computer

 I open any browser and enter the ip address of the ubuntu server A next cloud initialization page will appear stating that you have successfully installed it You will be asked to create an admin account for next cloud, you should write it down to use it in the next steps next cloud will recommend you to install some software, but i only use this server to store files so i will ignore next cloud

 will recommend you to install some software, but i only use this server to store files so i will ignore If you want to use these software you can install them after building the next cloud server Let's check the capacity of the private cloud A fairly large capacity compared to free services

 like Google Drive or One Drive, 909GB A fairly large capacity compared to free services like Google Drive or One Drive, 909GB To check if next cloud is working properly I try to upload any file Upload successful, so next cloud works fine What are we going to do next? Of course we will configure

 to allow access to the private cloud from anywhere From my Windows machine I connect to the ubuntu server using ssh You open the command window enter the command ssh username @ ip address Next, enter the admin password when prompted Because when I installed ubuntu server I enabled openssh server so I can connect remotely using ssh If you want to access

it from outside the internet, you should enable https, so your data will be more secure If you want to access it from outside the internet, you should enable https, so your data will be more secure The command you use is sudo nextcloud.enable-https self-signed Again you are asked for the admin password

of the your Bunkie server You refresh your browser and try accessing the nextcloud management page In the address bar, https has appeared, so https has been successfully activated In the address bar, https has appeared, so https has been successfully activated Next, you configure

 port forwarding on the router, for each manufacturer, the configuration will be different, but the purpose is the same Next, you configure port forwarding on the router, for each manufacturer, the configuration will be different,

but the purpose is the same Port to forward is 443 To configure port forwarding you need the ip address of the ubuntu server In my case I will forward port 443 to ip address 10.11.32.47 Check what is my public address my public ip address is 14.226.59.72

I will try accessing my private cloud from outside the internet using a public ip address I got a warning about accessing from an untrusted domain So how do we make it a trusted domain? You reopen the previous ssh

command window and configure as follows sudo nano /var/snap/nextcloud/current/nextcloud/config/config.php sudo nano /var/snap/nextcloud/current/nextcloud/config/config.php Scroll down to find the line containing the ip address of the ubuntu server Next,

 replace the ip address with the star character If you configure like this you will make all domains trusted to nextcloud you can also add each domain separately if you want After saving the configuration file, refresh your browser and check the results As you can see I was able to access the private cloud from outside the internet But most people use public ip address which is dynamic,

 so what do you do Don't worry, the next part of the video will help you solve that problem I will use duckdns to update the public ip address dynamically and give you a free domain name You go to duckdns, sign up for a free account and you get up to 5 free domains With this cloud server I create a new domain name netvnncc.duckdns.org But you need to install

duckdns on ubuntu server for it to update public ip address automatically You choose your domain name and follow duckdns instructions to install it on ubuntu server You create a new file named duck.sh Then copy and paste the content containing your own token Please note to correct

 the path to the duck.sh file as I am doing Don't forget to save the file before closing Next you use the command sudo chmod 700 duck.sh Next command is crontab -e, then choose nano editor This file is used to schedule automatic updates of your public ip address You also need to correct the log file path like I am doing Don't forget to save the file before closing The next command

 is sudo ./duck.sh With this command you will update the public ip address and assign it to your domain name The log file will record your public ip address update results If the screen appears OK, you have successfully updated your public ip address Let's use the new domain to access the cloud https://netvnncc.duckdns.org Successful lucky successful So I have successfully built

 a private cloud with a capacity of 909GB If you have more hard drives or your hard drives have a larger capacity, your cloud capacity will be up to TB If you have more hard drives or your hard drives have a larger capacity, your cloud capacity will be up to TB Next I will connect to the private cloud

from my phone I have the next cloud app pre-installed on my phone I just enter my domain name and account to access the private cloud

 Thank you