Your NAS snapshots are probably disabled, and one mistake will teach you why that matters
…At that moment, I realized what the ZFS snapshots button in TrueNAS's GUI was for. It's a checkbox I never bothered to flip on, and it only took one lost…
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Your NAS needs more RAM than you think
…But if you’re planning to work with TrueNAS or other hardcore server distros that are built on ZFS, it’s a good idea to arm your backup machine with ample memory…
XPEnology gave me Synology's operating system on my own hardware, and now I can't justify the official price
…Sure, TrueNAS and Unraid are more capable than DSM, but the latter has been the golden standard for a plug-and-play storage server for years. Unfortunately, DSM is a proprietary distro…
Your backup strategy is probably broken, and a $250 second machine can fix it
…I added some redundancy via a remote secondary server Snapshot replication works wonders for a 3-2-1 backup pipeline I use TrueNAS’ snapshot replication functionality to send data from my primary…
I used Cockpit instead of a full NAS OS, and my spare Linux box finally made sense for home storage
…Related 4 underrated alternatives to TrueNAS Scale and Unraid for NAS lovers The NAS rabbit hole hides plenty of niche distros I also tossed in some containerization plugins After all, Cockpit natively…
Almost everyone self-hosts for the same 4 reasons, and HexOS covers all of them now
…That's not how this normally goes on a fresh TrueNAS install. On plain TrueNAS you create datasets, set ACLs, mount storage into the container, and then walk through the media server…
I turned my Raspberry Pi into a portable NAS that runs off a power bank, and now I carry terabytes everywhere
…Related I tried running the best NAS distro on my Raspberry Pi, and it went better than I thought TrueNAS may not be officially supported on Arm devices, but you can install…
Synology's apps are why people stay, not the hardware, and that's finally changing
…Heck, I’d go so far as to say that TrueNAS Community Edition isn’t all that complicated if you’re willing to put some extra hours into learning its UI, especially…
I put my Steam library on my NAS, and it was both brilliant and stupid
…I’ve got my primary PC and TrueNAS-powered NAS (specifically, the TerraMaster F4-424 Max ) connected over a 10G Zyxel switch to prevent bottlenecks… at least, in theory. I’ve reused…
My old mini PC runs Proxmox for free, and it beats any NAS OS you have to pay for
…When I started out, it picked up more and more of what I had been self-hosting on my TrueNAS box: namely Pi-hole, a reverse proxy, a handful of containers for…