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i spent all day trying to set up a truenas server but its all bullshit so im gonna go with debian and dietpi, AMA
I just finished setting up my truenas server on the weekend. Do you need any help?
I might do, but I might just try out proxmox on my long march back to Debian.
The newest version of TrueNAS SCALE is way different to what I've seen in tutorials, and the Docker compose functionality didn't work for me (doesnt help im basically a noob at docker) since linuxserver.io examples are a bit more involved than I thought 😮💨
Proxmox is great but it doesn't have very many features if you're going to use it to manage zpools that also have non proxmox data on them. I have taken to also installing cockpit and the 45drives fork of https://github.com/45Drives/cockpit-zfs-manager
Makes it easier to manage your non proxmox datasets.
do you have a good guide or anything i can save for later? i'm also setting up a truenas server soon
I set mine up just on prior knowledge, but this one seems like a pretty good guide: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/getting-started-with-truenas-scale-part-1-hardware-installation-and-initial-configuration/182361
If you want to make the project a little more interesting, think about virtualizing truenas. I have mine hosted in a VM inside proxmox and added it to my cluster.
Feel free to message me if you have any more questions!
This one might be a bit outdated, since Electric Eel disables external app catalogs and changes some setup stuff. Pools and datasets seem more or less the same, i think
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