I did a search that lead here because I was wondering if there was a need, and if so a convenient way, to export/backup extra configurations like file shares and such in case of boot drive failure. I figured that it might be automatically backed up to the pool, so that when you reinstalled on a fresh boot drive and imported the pool, it would just ask if you wanted to import the configuration from it and it would be as if nothing ever happened. It didn't even cross my mind that recovering from a boot drive failure at all would not be considered basic functionality.
Leaving that aside, does this mean that someone in this situation could start installing HexOS, but bypass and log into TrueNAS directly and recover the pool that way? I don't mean in the sense that you could then continue in HexOS, necessarily, but that you could at least get a file share or something started in TrueNAS so that you could extract the data. Or is there a way to create and download a boot drive backup via the HexOS interface, perhaps? Because if the only way to make the system recoverable from both types of drive failure, is to regularly boot from another boot device in order to image the boot drive, that's... exactly the kind of jank I really want to avoid having to deal with.
