Less technical user dives in to backups and installing apps!

[gingerling]

https://www.gingerling.co.uk/playing-with-hexos-part-3-installing-an-app-automated-backup-and-peeking-at-truenas/

Hi all here is the next instalment in my series. I hope you enjoy it 🙂

[Dylan]

I don't know for how much longer you can self refer as "less technical" - you're doing some pretty tech-fu stuff and, as far as I can tell, both enjoying and understanding it. Well done!

[Todd Miller]

Agreed.  Maybe we need to start saying our level of expertise is more inline with novice instead of saying less technical.  

[gingerling]

It's a tricky line, I try to be clear what my knowledge is around each topic. I know nothing about networking almost nothing about servers, and am deeply uncomfortable with managing important security, anything comand line or code etc. that said I've worked doing QA on software for years and am an IT consultant by trade. I would never ever want to set up TrueNAS for example. I'm interested that you see these things im as technical, however, which bits? Thanks for reading 💜💜

[Todd Miller]

After nearly 40 years of mainframe programing, off and on PC support for the companies I worked for, Probably about as many years creating and maintaining first Apple PC's then on to 8086 PC's and beyond, I believe I have made some observations.  I can build a PC from a pile of parts.  I can network equipment together through wireless, wired and electrical and recently through coaxial cable.  I can put a RJ45 end on ethernet cable the old way (without the quick crimp tool).  What I consider to be my crowning achievement was working with my dad to help a neighbor get an early 70's Corvette running.  While I understand the concept of internal combustion, my diagnostics skills are limited to "getting spark" and getting gas".  So my value to this project was to read the manual for the parts and they were added to the hunk of metal hanging in their garage.  Things like this show me "technical" is a mindset or approach more than a true level of knowledge.  Sure the two go hand in hand but if you don't have a technical approach you will not successfully set up a NAS at any but the very most basic level.  And adding products to that NAS is out of the question.  That is why when I ask a question I often ask for a picture to see where I deviated.  Not just to fix it but to see what happens when I change settings.  I have pages of notes from all the way back when I was picking out the hardware I am using for the HexOS NAS.  I started expecting I would be setting up an UnRaid instead of TrueNAS.  A friend with some knowledge was pushing me to TrueNAS when I say the LTT videos'.  Reading the "How I chose hardware" article showed very clearly how you are short on experience and expertise.  But it also showed a technical aptitude that is NOT in short supply here in this forum. 

So when you are done with this experience I would like to hear your opinion.  You may find some of the information you are given when you ask for help to be difficult to follow.  Thats you experience level not your technology level.  Experience can come easy and hard depending on your level of effort in a project but becoming technical when you previously were not?  I don't even know if that happens.  Keep up the articles please.