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I seem to have the same issue, currently on TrueNAS-24.10.2.1. Haven't made any changes since it was last working except updates to truenas

File Syncing Password management Cookbook (mealie) Rom Storage Steam Game Storage maybe eventually for remote play Media Server The one thing I am going to have to do more research on is how to get it to store my documents from windows so that I can then have it sync to my other non-windows machines. So it's my "cloud storage" but then use my Cloud Storage OneDrive and sync with that once every 3-6 hours as an off site backup. And hopefully it'll do a better job than oneDrive. One Drive has gotten better over the years, but Now that I'm on Linux and Windows I'd like something to harmonize my environments.

I'm in the same boat. Active Backup for Business and Active Backup for M365 are a key part of my backup strategy. All the other apps I used to run on my Synology are now running on a different platform. The problem is that these backup apps are just very solid on Synology, and I haven’t found any good alternatives yet.

I am hoping for a Solution that provides equivalent apps to Synologies Active Backup for Business Active Backup for M365 Synology Drive These are the Apps that currently bind me to Synology. Ther simply is no comparable solution in terms of stability and ease of use right now. A bit further down the wishlist but also important is the Integration of / easy Setup for a collaboration office solution like onlyOffice with client side software apps and Chat, Mail & Calender functionality as a self hosted alternative to Microsoft 365. There is demand for this from several of my customers but all the solutions out there always overwhelm them and are abandoned after a short while. I need something I can set up for non tech savvy users that they can use without much hassle.

I think I have the same issue. I think I made a mistake with this software I will do a fresh install of truenas without hexOS to see if that fixes my issue. I can't even ping my router. I guess the word Beta means no support in these circles.

"Annoncements" LOL

In this section, below Featured Posts, this is spelled 'Annoncements'. Not a big issue, but hopefully quick to fix!

Most of the home lab/DIY content I've seen recently is REALLY unhappy with these changes. Glad I never locked in with Synology.

No, but if you’re a military service member, send me a dm.

Thank you! I will look into Immich. Seems a bit easier. Plex also makes sense in that case with plexamp. Need to figure out the site hosting though, even how much performance this is.

You can use something like Navidrome for Music Streaming, since you need a reverse proxy anyway this can be setup quite easily to be reachable over the Internet and is not behind a paywall.

yes, usually people use immich here but photoprism should work too If your friend is on the same network as you it should plenty easy for them to back up stuff as well if they are on different networks, you would need to setup something like a reverse proxy for them. this can work, just the ease of it is pretty variable. I believe this can be done easily with plexamp but some features are locked behind a paywall. It does get a bit harder when you try to do this outside of plex absolutely no idea, not something i have done myself or even looked into. hexos is going to get built in vm support in the future. at this time outside of plex and immich setup most things are done manually via the truenas interface in the future more apps are planned to be able to install in 1 click

Hey, so I am a bit new to servers. I want to build a NAS and hope that I can do the following with it: Photo/video backup. For myself and maybe a friend with his own library. Was looking into photoprism with photosync. I guess it would be 2 photoprism libraries in this case. Maybe something for high quality music, where I can place everything and stream from it Host 2 websites, I guess this is like running 2 linux based VMs simultanously? Can HexOS do this without too much manual work? I can code, but my background is as a front end game developer, quite different. I have implemented back-end integration systems though, just never anything back-end itself.

Will there be a 2025 Memorial day sale? I am considering purchasing HexOS

Create a bootable USB drive and use something like Dr Parted or, perhaps even better in your case Rescuezilla, to live boot into your system which will give you the ability to view drive contents and, if you use Rescuezilla, create a backup of your primary OS drive before installing the second drive intended as a mirror.

Never apologize for swearing. It's evolution's way of micro-stress reductions. IMHO

How can I see what is on my boot-pool? because the drive is 92% full and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to reduce.

ok so upon further research it would seem that for some reason, portainer was installed onto the boot-pool and is filling it up. I cannot figure out how to move portainer to my main-pool. and I really dont want to have to redo all of the configuration I went through with my containers.

your boot drive is not too small in fact i would say its still too big 😂 hexos/truenas fits on a 16gb ssd, anything larger than that is a waste of space lol. The extra space is locked away and cannot be used for any purpose boot drive should be mirrored for safety which is slightly different from raid. A mirror has the exact same data on more than 1 drive. easiest way to swap boot drives is to make a clone of it with something like clonezilla. But again your boot drive is more than big enough

ok so I was an idiot and installed hex os on a drive that is way too small, the drive it is on right now is 120gb. I have a 1tb drive in the system but i know that for data security my boot pool should be on a raid1 drive. so i have ordered a second 1tb m.2 so that I can do raid 1. my problem now is, how can I migrate my boot pool from the 120gb drive onto the raid 1 config? I dont want to go through and have to reconfigure docker and all my other stuff.

Dang! Pics please!

But for the Terramaster brand, this is almost identical to my setup and I have the same use-case (backup & Media server) and so far have been super happy. Have fun!!

@Mindless999 Correct.

Thanks for this article, it has been an eye opener for the ECC memory, Especially reading a follow up which is on that thread: https://jrs-s.net/2015/02/03/will-zfs-and-non-ecc-ram-kill-your-data/. So what I understand here is: ECC will *help* keep your data safe, and ZFS is already keeping your data safer then any other filesystem, by default. If you had an error in RAM due to broken RAM it would have broken any data on a disk, no matter what FS you're using. In summary: Using non ECC RAM is not bad Using ECC RAM is better, but it's better overall, it's not ZFS that makes it a requirement. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks again for the explanation/pointers to the correct information.

I second that recommendation.