ix system true nas mini

[hamby]

I have had a TrueNas Mini from IX Systems for quite a long time. I only really dive into the UI on TrueNas a few times a year, and it is always an adventure as I have to re-teach myself some things. 

I have tons of media, TimeMachine backups, and files, and from what I know, all of the data on these drives would be wiped if I installed HexOS on my TrueNas Mini. I wanted to clarify if this was the case and if there was an easy way to install HexOS onto the system. I assume there might be when 1.0 is released. 

 

Looking forward to the future of HexOS!

[jonp]

Yes supporting migration from TrueNAS to HexOS is planned.

[Mobius]

As of now there is no way to migrate pools from truenas but its defintely been something a lot of people have been interested in so itll likely eventually come

[hamby]

On 12/10/2024 at 4:37 PM, Mobius said:

As of now there is no way to migrate pools from truenas but its defintely been something a lot of people have been interested in so itll likely eventually come

I hope so because I have spent a ton of time curating all of these pools so I will wait to move to HexOS until that is possible. I thought about hot swapping the drives with older drives, install HexOS, then once it is running swap the drives with my data back into the system. I do worry the metadata from plex would be totally lost though which is a real pain. 

[hamby]

13 hours ago, jonp said:

Yes supporting migration from TrueNAS to HexOS is planned.

Music to my ears! I will eagerly wait until that is possible before installing on my ix system truenas mini

[hamby]

On 12/10/2024 at 4:37 PM, Mobius said:

As of now there is no way to migrate pools from truenas but its defintely been something a lot of people have been interested in so itll likely eventually come

Any update on this? Looking forward to diving into HexOS

[Mobius]

6 hours ago, hamby said:

Any update on this? Looking forward to diving into HexOS

Still no update at this time but an updated roadmap should be coming out soon

[hamby]

On 3/4/2025 at 3:42 PM, Mobius said:

Still no update at this time but an updated roadmap should be coming out soon

Just checking in as I am for sure on the lower end of knowledge on all of this. Is HexOS close to being able to do a pool import? I am still on Core and if HexOS will have handy features to make my move to scale, retain metadata for Plex that would be fantastic