On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 8:01 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: <SNIP> > I think I'm going to switch. I need to start over anyway. I set up a user account and a large pool but while I can mount it, I can't put anything in it yet. I get a permission error. I likely missed a step or something. Starting over will help correct that. lol > > By the way, when I got it installed, it did update to a newer version. I didn't look to see if it was dated in any way but updates seem to be available for FreeNAS. I dunno. > > Thanks for the info. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
At this point I think you're wise to just plug around in it for a little while. Learn it a little bit. Build a few pools and get used to how it works. It's a bit different than Linux. In my case everything is NFS mounts and NFS exports work differently on BSD. Assume you have a pool: /mnt/MyPool/mark/Backups and under that you want to have 3 directories exported to different machines for backups, so /mnt/MyPool/mark/Backups/science /mnt/MyPool/mark/Backups/sciene2 /mnt/MyPool/mark/Backups/StellarMate where each user machine has a place to put things, and hence you can find it, but no LVM, it's just a big pool of storage. Note there are all the standard problems about permissions when you first set these directories up, like making sure you own them, that they are writable, etc. In Linux NFS I would likely export all three separately, while in TrueNAS BSD I export /mnt/MyPool/mark --alldirs If you cared about science mucking with science2's backups there are ways to stop that, but I don't care because each machine on my network has a bash scripts that points it where I want it to go: mark@science2:~$ cat ./bin/DoTrueNAS #rsync -avx -n --port=873 --exclude={000_NOT_BACKED_UP,RIPS,.cache,.nv,'google-chrome*',DiskImages,Current} /home/mark mark@truenas1:/mnt/MyPool/mark/Backups/science2/. rsync -avx --port=873 --exclude={000_NOT_BACKED_UP,RIPS,.cache,.nv,'google-chrome*',DiskImages,Current} /home/mark mark@truenas1:/mnt/MyPool/mark/Backups/science2/. mark@science2:~$ where the first one is a test config and the second is a real transfer. Because it's rsync if something doesn't finish then I can pick up again with little time lost. Also, I think there are ways for you to build complex pools like a RAID0 from your 6TB and 8TB drives, and then a RAID1 using the RAID0 and your 14TB drive but I've never tried it because mine don't have enough drive slots for that. Also, turn on compression. It saves me between 15-20% so 14TB becomes 16TB storage. YMMV. Video files don't compress, at least not much. Data files generally do. Hope this helps. I think you'll find TrueNAS fun actually but there is a learning curve. I've used it for about a year and barely scratched the surface. Good luck, Mark