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i'm thinking something similar to our smb instructions would be nice. Just a few links with write ups on how to setup rsync on different platforms.

This would require to make setting up the rsync server easier, but then again the team could only make the receiver side easier, but the user would still need to figure out how to use rsync on their existing NAS.

@mill3000 simplifying this would definitely be a great boon for HexOS

glad i could help

@Mobius much appreciated i already did take note that it had been said to leave TrueNas updated to be delivered via HexOS thankyou

welcome to hexos At this time the only other thing to keep in mind is that you should NOT update the underlying truenas operating system. Some functions might work and others might not however the HexOS team regards that as an unsupported use case. As far as i know there have not been any reports of docker apps breaking hexos so you should be good.

@Mobius I just bought my lifetime license and am diving into setting up a NAS moving away from the current MS Plex server I have, is there anything else specific that may brick HexOS outside of single drive Pools? I am mainly looking at Plex Immich Filebot qBittorrent Sonarr/Radarr Prowlarr Tautulli apologies if this makes no sense I am very new and have very little idea at this stage

@EviTRea, I support this. It's a pretty common use case. Migrating to HexOs should be as simple as using HexOs.

Forgot to mention another point of making HexOS do the pulling: If I use my PC to access both machine with SMB to do the copying, my PC would need to stay awake for the entire transfer session. Which is bad, and another point of failure.

So, I had a Synology running for like 4 years. It was about to run out of space, so I decided to make a custom NAS. I set up HexOS, then I want my all my Synology data to be in HexOS. The first thought is just open SMB share on both devices, and copy paste from one to the other machine... But on Linux, I know that this would just make directories with the same name, thus making "Last modified" to be the date that the transfer happens. Therefore, I asked ChatGPT. It suggested Rsync, which has a lot of benefits, like pure NAS to NAS communication, the ability to resume transfer if things got wrong... And of course HexOS doesn't have that. Not saying it should, but I just happen to need it in this specific case. Anyway, I went into TrueNAS, and set up Rsync. I'll spare the details since it's not really a HexOS topic, but I can say that it took several hours to figure out with constant waiting, it's not a pleasant experience. And I'm just thinking, there should be an easier way right? Like, TrueNAS scale is just Debian. Can't it just access SMB itself, copy the file into a directories, and use some parameters to keep the metadata? Or whatever, I don't know. My point is, "I just set up a new NAS and now I want all my old NAS data here" is probably a common enough need that HexOS should have a default solution to. That's about it. Thanks for reading.

thanks for reporting back

After nearly 40 years of mainframe programing, off and on PC support for the companies I worked for, Probably about as many years creating and maintaining first Apple PC's then on to 8086 PC's and beyond, I believe I have made some observations. I can build a PC from a pile of parts. I can network equipment together through wireless, wired and electrical and recently through coaxial cable. I can put a RJ45 end on ethernet cable the old way (without the quick crimp tool). What I consider to be my crowning achievement was working with my dad to help a neighbor get an early 70's Corvette running. While I understand the concept of internal combustion, my diagnostics skills are limited to "getting spark" and getting gas". So my value to this project was to read the manual for the parts and they were added to the hunk of metal hanging in their garage. Things like this show me "technical" is a mindset or approach more than a true level of knowledge. Sure the two go hand in hand but if you don't have a technical approach you will not successfully set up a NAS at any but the very most basic level. And adding products to that NAS is out of the question. That is why when I ask a question I often ask for a picture to see where I deviated. Not just to fix it but to see what happens when I change settings. I have pages of notes from all the way back when I was picking out the hardware I am using for the HexOS NAS. I started expecting I would be setting up an UnRaid instead of TrueNAS. A friend with some knowledge was pushing me to TrueNAS when I say the LTT videos'. Reading the "How I chose hardware" article showed very clearly how you are short on experience and expertise. But it also showed a technical aptitude that is NOT in short supply here in this forum. So when you are done with this experience I would like to hear your opinion. You may find some of the information you are given when you ask for help to be difficult to follow. Thats you experience level not your technology level. Experience can come easy and hard depending on your level of effort in a project but becoming technical when you previously were not? I don't even know if that happens. Keep up the articles please.

Update: just putting the old OS drive in the new system does work. altough i needed to reconfigure the ip in my router to use my old bookmarks.

Hey @Exodia, unfortunately I cannot comment on this since I'm not using Truenas/Hexos to host my apps, maybe someone else can comment on this instead.

Thanks again @PsychoWards! Would you consider installing TrueNAS apps as easy to setup/configure/maintain as the HexOS-curated apps? All of these video demos for HexOS apps (Plex, immich) seem pretty easy to click and install, and I'd very much like to compare the complexity of installing those apps to installing TrueNAS apps.

Hi @TheCambaplaying with Immich atm and working on my next post. I'm getting pretty frustrated with it but having fun. I love next cloud! Didn't know I could run that here, how exciting!

It's a tricky line, I try to be clear what my knowledge is around each topic. I know nothing about networking almost nothing about servers, and am deeply uncomfortable with managing important security, anything comand line or code etc. that said I've worked doing QA on software for years and am an IT consultant by trade. I would never ever want to set up TrueNAS for example. I'm interested that you see these things im as technical, however, which bits? Thanks for reading 💜💜

Just did a rollback and everything is back to normal. Not sure what the issue was.

Crap. I let Plex update and now nothing but the webui can access my content. One step forward, two steps back.

I have used gear builds posted like this

There will be a PoE version in the future (according to the FAQ on Kickstarter)

I just got confirmation from the JetKVM support, that USB-C PD is indeed unsupported by the black splitter.

You can also change the password from the NAS itsself . You will need to plug in a keyboard and monitor and go threw the options to reset password for GUI login

For file sync have you guys considered Seafile instead?

hi brain trust; i already went through a lot of the forum but can't seem to find an answer.. hope for some good recommendations; I currently run a Synology DS3615XS with 1 expansion bay, 2X 12 disks in RAID 6, so 2 different arrays, around 200 TB in total. i need to move away from the Synology and with all the consumer unfriendly stuff that has been going on, i want to move to a different system. I have already invested into hexos and bought a perpetual license. while it would be nice to have the NAS run additional software in the future, for now being a SMB is enough for me. I run all my dockers on a different MS-01 from Minisforum that has all the processing power i need. so, what am i looking for? i am looking for a storage server. ideally rack mountable with half-depth, quiet and simple. if possible 24 disks so i can expand.. i would need at least 200tb as a starting storage pool and be able to expand later on. I was hoping ubiqity would release an enterprise version of their NAS since it does everything I need, is cheap and super simple but alas.. while i can figure out most of it, it's the chassis that has me scratching my head.. does anyone have any recommendations?