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Hello, At this time HexOS is still in beta so by purchasing a lifetime license you will get access to our beta software and all updates are included with the lifetime license at no additional cost. In the future there may be some features that are not included with the lifetime license but that is limited to features with an ongoing cost. For example if we decided to offer a cloud storage solution.

Hi, What does it mean when you state: "By purchasing a lifetime license now, you will gain instant access to the beta program" - Is Hex OS available, accessible, usable for the lifetime license? - For the official versions, major releases are they free or paid to upgrade/update.? Thanks

Were you able to get HexOS to recognize each drive in the terramaster enclosure? I am using a ProBox 4 bay but HexOS does not support multiple drives on the same USB interface.

to the best of my knowledge immich does not encrypt photos. Have you encrypted them another way? If you would like i can try to set up a support meeting with you where we install a fresh installation of immich and help you reprocess all the media you had in your previous immich installation

Hello. I looked up isaacerrols@gmail.com and you have an account but no license on it. There is no account under dewitt71@hotmail.com. I couldn't find any else doing a search for your first and last name. Sorry.

Hello, I believe I previously purchased a HexOS license, but I’m unable to locate my receipt or confirmation email. Could you please help me verify whether I have an existing license on record? I can provide any information needed to look it up, such as my name (Errol Isaac), email address: (isaacerrols@gmail.com or dewitt71@hotmail.com). Thank you for your assistance.

Hi! first off, I have a backup. second. I didn't know about the whole migration thing when I decided to update immich today. idk how I missed everything, but I followed some guides but none of them worked (bc the step to "turn off old file systems" didn't exist for me, and for some reason, I couldn't change the file storage location) so I tried something stupid. I made a backup (a full one, including all the encrypted images) and then deleted immich and re-installed it. after learning that this didn't work, I realized I could not downgrade. I went to the immich discord server and they gave me a guide on how to restore from a backup, but annoyingly, this guide only exists for docker. anyone know how to guide me through this? and please enplane every step, pretend I'm 5. if this is impossible for some reason and you know a different way I can save my data from the infinite obscurity of encryption, I would really appreciate knowing how to fix it.

Can you please explain how you changed the name of your server? I cannot seem to figure this out.

With HDD prices in the stratosphere at the moment I had a question for anyone with this type of NAS. Have you tried shucking HDD's? And if so, did you need to apply tape to the 3rd rail? -- Orion

Good news indeed if they are working on fully supporting the drivers! It’s been quite some time since I’ve been wanting to buy an Intel Arc GPU for Plex HW transcoding!

Hello everyone. I am gald others have had better luck with their intel gpu's, but I have an Intel Arc Pro A40 and I have had trouble with Plex HW transcoding (this seems to be specific to the version of plex I am using; HexOS, TreuNAS, and an Ubuntu VM recognize and can access the GPU). With that said, it looks like the plex team is actively working to get the full Intel Alchemist gpu driver stack fully suported in an upcoming PMS release. Here is the Plex support thread for reference: https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-transcoder-cannot-initialize-vaapi-on-intel-arc-pro-a40-dg2/933983

What did you end up doing The_Hawkeye? Or are you still waiting for the full 1.0 release of HexOS?

If you can tell me what parts have you lost i can point you in to the right direction

Oh that makes more sense. lol I think the only way to solve this is too not bother encrypting things... lets just keep everything OPEN.

Just to clear things up, I was only talking about encrypting local datasets and not buddy backup. 🙂 No, you only need to have the keys once, when mounting the dataset to a new server or fresh install, afterwards you can save them in the OS and don't need them anymore. This will not be a problem with local UI dashboard. It might be that it's just stored in a Vault on the Hexos Server and you can retrieve them from there, or that during the setup, which requires an Internet connection anyway, they are automagically fetched from there or sth similar. Or the Eshtek team is not going to store the keys at all for us, I mean we are only talking possibilities and dreams at the moment 🙂 But, as @TheGlitch already mentioned, if you have them in a vault and that vault is an app in Hexos as part of the encrypted dataset, you are out of luck. Also, in case where the Hexos Server gets compromised, and the keys leaked, for local datasets this should be less of a concern, because typically, they shouldn't even be accessible from the outside in the first place and 2nd you can easily change them. And you can even make the storage of the keys optional.

I agree with @PsychoWards and @Todd Miller - we are having a conversation that plagues IT Security engineers all the time.... finding the middle ground of high security and protection but ease of use. Make things to easy and its not good protection. Make the protection as solid as possible and the user won't use it. The general standard dictates the data MUST be encrypted before it leaves the machine. The standard practice is you encrypt the data, and you store the keys in a Vault (like Bitwarden, 1Password, or a physical safe). HexOS is marketed to "prosumers" who want things to "just work." If HexOS forces encryption and the user deletes their OS without backing up the keys, the data is mathematically unrecoverable. Should we be storing keys on the HexOS servers? From a security standpoint, this COULD be a huge issue. The risk comes down to the possibility of HexOS getting hacked, the hackers then have the keys to everyone's backup. Buddy Backup aims to be a "zero-knowledge" system, and that should mean only the users have the keys. HexOS server can assist in the facilitation of passing the keys to each user because seeing part of the key isn't the actual key. They could use an identity-based key derivation like Steve Gibson's SQRL. If HexOS generated a Master Identity Key for each user, the system could automatically derive unique encryption keys for each Buddy Backup target. This would allow for 'Zero-Knowledge' offsite backups without forcing users to manually manage individual encryption keys for every dataset. We get the security of ZFS encryption with the ease of a single Master Password. In a SQRL-style system, if you reinstall the OS, you must have your Master Key backed up. If HexOS doesn't force you to save that master key (or the 24-digit Rescue Code) during setup, then a reinstall would mean the end of your data.

Man this topic was super confusing to read through. It definitely did not give me confidence to purchase additional licenses. The over policing of these licenses is very off-putting. Definitely does not scream user-friendly company. Think I'm just gonna sit tight for another year before I spend any more dollars here.

Would that key store on the HexOS server mean I would need to connect to the mothership and would not be able to perform any of these actions only using the local UI dashboard? That would seem to be another bump in the road. A philosophical bump, but a bump nonetheless.

Hey, You don't need to take care of this for the Hexos curated apps, as this is part of the Hexos install skript. Storage paths are also taken care of, so that it's a real 1 click install and you are done and the app is running. Of course, if needed, you can still tweak everything before or after installation.

Thanks. It is indeed working very well. Only thing now is trying tot figure out Truenas. Cause up until now it has been a lot of trial and error and I still don't understand any of it. Do you have any good resources to help?

HexOS is TrueNAS under the hood. But I am not sure I understand your issue. Are you saying you want desktop level RAM/CPU allocations on a NAS?

Hi! I use TrueNAS scale as the OS on my server, but im getting a little tired by the allocating of memory, CPU cores, and storage every time i download an app. I would love to see something like how it is in most desktop-OS:es, where i just download an application and it itself just uses what it needs. Otherwise i get caught up in wondering what a good amount of allocated ram or cores or whatever is for each app, of which i honestly am just winging it... Would this be something that HexOS would have [or has] as a feature?

solid build im also running a 265k myself and im pretty content with it

As much as I like the idea of encrypted datasets (i'm using them myself), I fear that it will cause a not insignificant amount of headaches and data loss. Seeing how many users currently are just reinstalling Hexos if something is not working as they expect, currently, they just nees to mount the pools again and no harm no foul. But with encrypted datasets, where they didn't save the keys or have the keys saved on the encrypted dataset themselves it's bye bye data. So if we go done the path of encrypted datasets, we need to have a way to easily manage the decryption keys. Maybe there will be an option to store them on the Hexos Server and use them from there if anything ever goes wrong with a server. If not, a lot of people are not going to remember where they put those keys X years ago, which are now standing between them and their data. Don't get me wrong, I think those are definitely valid points, but such a crucial part requires a basically fool proof setup to not cause any harm. 🙂

I like how plain it looks. Honestly. a NAS doesn't need to RGB. Nice job! -- Orion