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Maybe, maybe not. You thought is additional work for the dev team. So if they are already in the code making automation changes, what else can they do that seems straightforward and improves quality of life for HexOS. My thought is a very small improvement but I have noticed that is the app is stopped and I try to do an update, it seems the update process hangs. In my head like your snapshotting potential improvement request to "simply" tell the process to 1) check if an app is running, 2) stop it if it is, 3) do snapshot, 4) do update, 5) restart app. For mine it's similar as it's when the update button is clicked 1) check to see if the app is running and start it if it isn't, 2) do snapshot, 3) do update and 4) return the app to original state. Both would take work to do but could make things simpler. I know we are making some assumptions that HexOS knows the state of the app but since is displays that info it seems that is available. The problem is similar with both our thoughts in that the update process needs to know what to do if the app won't stop or restart as needed. Seems like nothing is really ever simple and it's tough to know how much is to much.

I feel like I'm missing something important in your comment. The reason for shutting down the app is to make sure everything is in a good state including databases and so forth. Snapshotting can lead to corruption if the app is running.

I wonder if that can lead to the reverse as well where you can click to upgrade upgrade and an app that is stopped can snapshopt, start, update and perhaps stop again. Are there to many options to hit all possibilities. And if you start down the rabbit hole, where do you stop? Actually I am being serious. I have several apps that are stopped and within a week every one has an update message.

Why not have the option for the app to simply shut down then snapshot and restart?

Maybe it's usefull if I add my use-cases: PLEX (of Jellyfin in future) Radarr, Sonarr (and other rrrr products) Qbittorrent Nextcloud Immich Off-site back-up to Hetzner over FTP of citircal data VM for Windows 11 (nice to have) for Media ripping Thanks again!

Hello, I'm about to start building my Hex OS NAS. At the moment I already have a "NAS" build around a 7700T + 16 GB DDR4 @ 2133MHz , running windows. My inital idea was to transfer this hardware into the Hex OS machine. However, with the recently (officially) announced re-launch of the 5800X3D an alternative is presenting itself. Build a new machine using my current "gaming" CPU a 5800X. In this scenario I would: Buy a new 5800X3D for gaming and use the 5800X for Hex OS Transfer the 16GB of DDR4 from my old Windows NAS to the Hex OS build Look for a new (of 2nd hand) cost-effictve AM4 MB with a many SATA ports as possible >> Any recomandations? Add a 2.5Gbe network card, intel I226 style Do I need a (parmanent) GPU ? I could use one during setup of-course. I sitll have a GTX970 laying around. The disks I'm planning to add into system are: 3x 14TB (new) Then extending the pool with a 12 TB + 14 TB drive (currently in use) after transfering the data on them from Windows to Hex OS. Any thoughts or other considerations I should take into account? Thank your your help and support! Hawkeye

Thank you! After much headbanging this is what solved it for me as well.

Improper snapshotting can have some risk so we are being very cautious about it.

Hey I am having the same issue here but I am unable to solve it. Do you have any suggestions ?

Glad to see automatic snapshots prior to app upgrade. Would like to see automatic snapshots become an option for Folders and eventually backup options.

Introducing our V4 installation scripts. This new iteration of app install scripts has a focus of improving application stability. We have updated our curation process to reduce the likelihood of bugs in curated apps. We are now automatically creating temporary snapshots prior to updating applications. This will help eliminate the chances of apps with breaking updates damaging your data. We have also implemented a system that will heal permissions modified in TrueNAS. Modified permissions in TrueNAS previously could have unintended consequences such as preventing curated app installation. App Curations We have committed to doubling our curations over the next few months, starting with these 9. LubeLogger - LubeLogger assists users in keeping track of their car maintenance records. Navidrome - Navidrome helps facilitate hosting your own music server. Excalidraw - Excalidraw is a Virtual whiteboard for sketching hand-drawn like diagrams. Blinko - Blinko is a lightweight note taking app. Dozzle - Dozzle is a realtime log viewer for docker apps running on your server Portracker - Portracker is a realtime port monitoring tool. Fladder - Fladder is a Jellyfin frontend and will spruce up your Jellyfin experience. Jellystat - Jellystat is a statistics app for Jellyfin and Emby. Seerr - Seerr is a request management and media discovery tool that works with your Jellyfin, Plex, or Emby server. 5/20 release notes - https://docs.hexos.com/release-notes/command-deck/2026-05-20.html 5/29 release notes - https://docs.hexos.com/release-notes/command-deck/2026-05-29.html

+1 to the above. I don't think it's related to Truescale. If anything it should give you local access. I've always been using the direct local URL: https://xxx.xxx.x.xxx/ui/signin However, how are you accessing the local HexOS dashboard? I just noticed that when I access the portal via my local IP link (https://xxx.xxx.x.xxx:43705/settings), the TrueNAS settings button is greyed out. But when I access from a https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.local.hexos.com:43705/settings link (basically via https://deck.hexos.com/ that redirects to local), the TrueNAS button is available again.

Cool! Just checking! Now to hoards more HDDs...

I don't know much about Tailscale, but have you tried typing the local ip of TrueNAS instead of accessing TrueNAS from the HexOS dashboard?

Thank you for answering. I understand the reason behind the choice. If we forget renaming, would it be possible to add a text field in the pool creation dialog to input a name, and set it as a variable to be used in the commands afterwards? I know nothing about TrueNas, I'm just trying to understand why it cannot be done.

After downloading Home Assistant and Tailscale, I am unable to access the TrueNAS admin panel. Any Ideas why that would be the case and how I would resolve this problem? Running Tailscale on both the NAS and the PC controlling the NAS via the HexOS command deck. Both on the same Wifi

I found a fix for the problem. "The solution was probably to do the following in the TrueNAS shell: sudo python /usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/middlewared/scripts/vendor_service.py i will never know 100%, as I gave up long before mill3000 posted it here: " best of luck to you all.

We recommend only torrenting legally, that could mean Linux iso's or free domain tv and movies. As for a vpn bundled release, we will evaluate that in the future. For now I recommend using a socks5 compatible vpn and setting up qbittorrent with a socks5 proxy in the app settings.

Like Cantos mentioned buddy backup and backing up to your own second server will be built on top of the same foundation and should be coming out together

ram speed can help a little bit but more ram will vastly out perform faster ram for most homelab usecases.

Renaming pools is not a feature that the underlying TrueNAS os supports. You can however rename the pool using command line. Automating pool naming helps us provide a better support experience by allowing us to provide premade shell commands for support with everything filled out correctly instead of having our users modify the commands.

Perhaps that's true but it does not change potential involvement. If anything, an attempt to hide the activity is even more suspicious if anyone is watching and actually cares.

Yes, that's exactly what Buddy Backup is intended to do.