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Maybe it's just me being super confused, but why would you need it to use a public folder? For either Immich or Nextcloud, there are already software designed to (securely) host, provide and share data explicitly (and not share their guts to a public share over the LAN) Wouldn't it be counter-productive to have them use a public share? It makes way more sense for torrent clients, music libraries and the such, than for file hosting software that usually has to enforce user separation and priviledges in a way that the public SMB share won't reflect at all.

I am battling ACL type mismatch issues for the "Applications" system share after the Immich config upgrade changed the postgres data path and I had to manually move data there. Not sure if I caused this situation by moving files or if the "config upgrade" will do that by default, but it's quite probably people going through the same issues and manual solutions as me would end up in the same situation Current status is: No SMB share config change is allowed on the "Applications" system SMB share; no chaning its access permissions nor even disabling the share altogether. Which is problematic as it now stores a database for a privacy-sensitive service, which now landed on a "public-by-default" datastore shared through the LAN. I highly advise people with limited free time during this holiday season to not perform any such new "config upgrade" until either things are sorted our, or you have enough spare time to fix breakages. There is no immediate issue with not doing it now, and no huge immediate benefit either, so just wait it out for now while the adventurous like me try to survive the unforseen consequences 🙂

A fine attempt to clarify some of the conflicting nomenclature of how storage verbiage is used. I hope this helps!! (clear as mud, right??)

nextcloud should be more forgiving with moving files and changing directories.

Just got the update and have this feedback on trying it out on immich: Thank god I didn't start with Nextcloud. Is this the expected behavior? Or is something rather pointing to me having done something wrong that ended up in data being left behind? Maybe I didn't read a warning prompt right? I think I'll land on my feet moving things manually for immich, but I have a lot more users on Nextcloud and I'm not sure I feel confident going through this again with Nextcloud... Let me know if another communication channel is more appropriate to discuss this further PS: please don't roll out risky things during holiday seasons. It's not worth it.

Wow, there is a lot to unpack here. I am a long time IT person but not a NAS or networking expert so let me hit the easier stuff and someone related to HexOS can hit the harder stuff. 1) The HexOS can be thought of as a large but active hard disc drive. The raid choice you make will spread data among all the drives to give data recovery but don't think of the NAS as a backup unless you specifically and only set it up that way. You can have a nice (finances permitting) desktop machine that you run all your apps and do all your work. Once a week an app can write your data out to the NAS. If that's what you want, get two external hard drives instead. Those drives would be cheaper. HexOS (built on TrueNAS) is so much more. 2) Yes you can but you will find out quickly there is a LOT of ways to do that. I'm not sure HexOS has a baked in option but it may. If it doesn't there are lots of app within TrueNAS. And if you really want to go down a rabbit hole there are apps like Docker/Dockage that open up another whole world of thousands of apps. 3) If you talking adding or managing datasets/folders in HexOS you will be working in TrueNAS to do that. That may have recently changed but I am at least one HexOS/TrueNAS update behind. 4) if you have created a HexOS NAS you can create SMB folders to import data. That is just one basic options because there are apps that can help load your new NAS. I'm not sure if I have answered your questions. If I missed your points let me know. There are a lot of folks here with different levels of expertise before you get to the development staff itself. If your a first timer people are happy to help but really focused on the overall development and support of the core product. What makes things more complicated is that a lot of work is still done in TrueNAS, not HexOS. So a product developed to make interaction within TrueNAS less often is still pretty TrueNAS heavy. This is probably also not the product you want if you really don't to use TrueNAS or develop a basic understanding of it. Many solutions for adding an app will come from youtube and that is risky because they are running specifically on TrueNAS and there are new versions of the product every few months. We have seen here that a "small" TrueNAS change can cause a lot of confusion and work for the HexOS devs. Don't expect to be taught TrueNAS here but you will have to learn parts of it. If you are considering HexOS it looks like it has a lot of potential for folks who want to set something up without worry that they need to get an IT degree though you should do more research and get more opinions than just mine. The only reason you need to look quickly is the cost of the lifetime license is currently $199 but is expected to go up to $299 when the application goes live. There are discussions of a monthly subscription but right now most of the effort is focused on getting to the go live state. There will be lots of news yet to come.

Hi, very nice update, here are some points of feedback: On the Immich app, it showed the button "An updated configuration is available for this app", which I clicked. Afterwards, my Immich instance wouldn't start up again. I looked into it on the truenas interface where the server container wouldn't start but instead display long error messages before crashing. I noticed that the data storage path was moved from "Host Path" to ixVolume. After I changed it back to the original path, everything worked again. If the switch to an ixVolume is intended, I'd like to have the option (in HexOS) to choose a host path instead, as I want to be able to access my photos via the smb share from another pc. I guess, my trouble with the immich app could have been avoided, if the update notification in the HexOS interface showed the changes clearly, instead of the generic "This will reset every change you made in TrueNAS" message that pops up right now. Also, I installed Nextcloud before it was curated on HexOS, so now I would be interested in migrating my installation to the curated version (without uninstalling and re-installing the app). I tried using the configuration update button, which (expectedly) did not do anything.

Hey, Backups are done over the local network or Internet (which requires additional setup) and are done using the existing network connection. Using an USB cable to connect to your server is not supported. What exactly do you want to backup from your devices? There are different ways and apps, depending on what you want to do. Backing up pictures from your phones (and Mac maybe?) you can use Immich, which is a one click install app in Hexos. For documents you could use something like paperless, which requires manual loading of the files and is more like a document manager, rather then a simple backup solution. And there are other solutions to backup every kind of data. For your family, not living in your house, to be able to backup to your server you need to either setup a VPN or Cloudflare Tunnel or similar. Hexos is using ZFS and in ZFS it's called RaidZ1 and not Raid5 🙂 Also please post your specs of your Server which you want to use, this way we can identify possible incompatibilities and issues beforehand and mitigate them.