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usb Automatically backup "every" device
José Encarnação posted a topic in Roadmap & Feature Requests
Hi and happy hollidays. After learning Linus was invested on this software, and understanding how much it takes the load of spending time to make TrueNAS do what developers are doing by coding this software ... and that TrueNAS themselves are invested as well, I'm almost convinced and pressing the Buy button, which I'll do after a bit more research if some requirements are met: Combined I use Samsung S23 Ultra (android), a Gaming PC (win11), a work laptop (w11) and an iPad Pro (iPadOS). My gf an iPhone 15 and a Macbook M1. So, I'm interested in backing up (incremental backup, mind you) all those devices by plugin in a cable and little more operation, but also, having my parents, siblings and nephews to remote backup onto an old PC I retired and is gaining dust in the attic, and I'm considering making a RAID 5 NAS for starters. Is the "backing up devices by pluging-in a cable" a thing in HexOS, or any NAS system for that matter? (my ignorance says it can't be that difficult if DEVICES are once validated and while nothing changes like a Factory Reset) Maybe for whom need so, having a 2FA app for "unlocking" the NAS server to allow backing up the connected device? That's my main concern / interest on having an Incremental Backup solution that is painless and not Hardcore Secure when it comes to input data to backup. Cheers from Portugal, and from what I've searched on the forum, this question wasn't yet put in this terms. Thanks in advance and happy holidays!
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Appologies if this has been covered but can't find it yet (or maybe the answer is so obvious no one's needed to ask? 😅). Would I be able to use a flash drive as the boot drive? I'm assuming I'd need a second for the install media. I understand this isn't a good idea for a number of reasons, but I plan to add a second (actual) SSD as mirror boot drive later
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I recently started building out my HomeLab and began with a Minisforum MS-01 system with the intention of mostly using for compute but was hoping to leverage for storage as well. I have several internal NVME's I will be using as mirrored storage for virtual machines and containers/applications. The machine has dual USB4 40Gbps ports, dual 2.5Gbps Ethernet, and dual 10Gbps SFP+ ports, there's also a PCIe expansion slot that can take a low profile HBA if needed. Unfortunately in my haste to acquire this I did not fully research the limitations of ZFS and USB until after the fact. So I find myself here now, hoping someone might have some recommendations of an external enclosure and low profile controller card that could work for me. My searches online are usually recommending older/outdated equipment off of eBay or the products are just not available. I would ideally like to find an external enclosure that was supported over eSATA or SAS with capacity for 5-8 drives, but I also realize my options are limited and will gladly work with whatever I can find. Alternatively is there a scenario where I could use an external Thunderbolt/USB4 drive enclosure and leverage all the disks without ZFS at the cost of some performance? Thanks in advance for any comments, feedback, or suggestions.
