Migration from TrueNas Scale to HexOS

[Ryan_Haki]

Hi there,

I am currently using TrueNas Scale an I want a more simple UI but with all the Features, so HexOS  is perfekt! I also looked into CasaOS but it hasnt enough Features (e.g. mirroring Drives). But i wonder If it's possible to migrate the Pool and maybe even the settings easily to HexOS? I have one SSD in which TrueNas is on, two 3tb HDD drives which are mirrored and a single 6tb HDD. I guess the settings are on the OS Drive and cannot be transfered (?)

But the Pools stay the same or do I have to reformat all the Drives during HexOS-installation? Cause i want to keep my Files 😅

Is there a way or do I need to save the Files somewhere and Put them Back in the system wen it's installed?

[jzito]

I am wondering this too. I saw a thread on reddit saying that the ability to upgrade will come after full release but that does seem annoying that it isnt a part of the initial set of features. Hoping that there is some official answer here.

I imagine a lot of people like me would like to upgrade for the easy UI but don't want the hassle of migrating. I mean avoiding the hassle is basically why I bought it.

[Mawson]

Pool and whole server migration/adoption is something that is not supported right now, but that the team will be looking into in the future. They haven't promised the features though to my knowledge.

I expect pool adoption should be possible reasonably easily, server adoption though might be tougher. Either way those features are not likely to be included before 1.0

I'm not on the dev team though so don't take my thoughts as gospel truth. I'm just making a decently informed guess based on what I know of how TrueNAS and HexOS work lol

[elephant]

For people who visit this in the future, the hex team already answered this question on LTT forum. https://linustechtips.com/topic/1578373-install-hexos-over-an-existing-truenas-installation/?do=findComment&comment=16488046

[valek879]

1 hour ago, elephant said:

For people who visit this in the future, the hex team already answered this question on LTT forum. https://linustechtips.com/topic/1578373-install-hexos-over-an-existing-truenas-installation/?do=findComment&comment=16488046

Yeah that answer makes me extremely disappointed with my purchase.

Basically they think that I know what the hell I'm doing if I managed to follow walkthroughs that got jellyfin to work. I have no clue what I am doing. I don't know why but I can no longer add apps, I try to do docker stuff and it all gets fucky and wonky. I want to use my server more flexibly but I feel stuck with an admittedly awesome media server, but nothing else. Would this change with HexOS? I don't rightfully know but I was just looking at Unraid again and wished that I had just used that from the get go. Their answer, you already did the hard part, is just so lackluster. I don't understand what I did, what I broke, how to do anything more (like access my jellyfin server remotely without exposing it to the web at large), and I just want something easier and more beginner friendly or learning friendly. That is what I believed HexOS was. Guess I am wrong.

[Mobius]

4 hours ago, elephant said:

For people who visit this in the future, the hex team already answered this question on LTT forum. https://linustechtips.com/topic/1578373-install-hexos-over-an-existing-truenas-installation/?do=findComment&comment=16488046

this is a very dated answer and the team has since change their stance on this.
They realized that there are a lot more people that want to migrate from truenas to HexOS than they anticipated and plan to add migration in the future