On Sun, Dec 11, 2022 at 8:01 AM Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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
