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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.

Ability to have 1 drive in a storage pool

Hey, Yes Realtek doesn't play nice with Hexos and WiFi is not supported at all. If you are looking for a PCIe NIC go with an Intel NIC, if you want to have 10Gbps, go with sth. Like an Intel X520 or X540 depending if you want SFP+(X520) or RJ45 (X540)

I'll have another go at recreating the installer, many thanks.

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.

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

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.

I don't really know how easy difficult this would be.. but: It would be nice if you could make a hexos intergration for HA. Could be just monitoring, or could be basic actions too. But would be quite cool and nice

I second this