I found TrueNas scale to be what fits my needs but I tried unraid (trial) and open media vault first. Also not this is not my first rodeo as I’ve done “from scratch” Ubuntu, and bsd.
I just built a server from older parts off eBay. An i7 2600, Asus p8z77, a Silverstone c382 nas case, 32gb of 1333, a pny P600 video card and a 9200+8i hba card. Then I used TrueNas on an SSD and another SSD for docker containers and cache.
4k Plex streaming no issues, system is fast and the only issue I had was the old Asus boards don’t use pwm fan control.
Open Media vault just confused the heck out of me, I ran it for a few months and donated money to the team for their effort but it was too restricting for my needs. It was definitely a capable nas os but it didn’t feel like it fit my style which is more hands on.
TrueNas has snapshots and replication. I run 4 12tb disks for my live data, striped raid 1’s. Then I have two more 12tb’s in a raid 1 for my replication read only. It’s not enough space if I filled my live drives but I havent needed more yet for the backup. And I can always expand my backup set.
I also have a qnap tr004 das with some random drives in a hardware raid 5. That’s my third copy I do every so often.
The funny part is I didn’t want to pay for a Synology but ended up spending more on parts. However it’s incredibly powerful for what it does so I’m using that as my “happy little mistake”. It’s going to last a long time and run as many services that I could possibly want as a home user.
I don’t know how I managed to log in after some troubles and now it added the SSL certificate without problems… I’m confused, but it worked so it’s good ahahaah
A fileserver that does something else is not a fileserver. Squeezing lots of services into a single machine makes it harder to maintain and keep stable.
If you do want to do that it helps to run those other services in docker or some other container to isolate them from the host.
Do I have to use a special NAS-specific OS to make use of the NAS hardware? Like to do snapshots and stuff?
No, these features are provided by various components, which are available in any modern OS. Snapshots for example can be provided by LVM or ZFS. Disk fault tolerance (RAID) is typically provided by LVM-RAID, ZFS, or plain old mdadm, or a hardware RAID card.
Kinda related: what if I install something like Debian/Ubuntu on it? Can I still use the NAS hardware in the same way?
You can, provided you set up these components yourself. Pre-made NAS OS like OpenMediaVault or TrueNAS will have these set up out-of-the-box. Web-based configuration interfaces are often specific to these pre-made distributions, so if a Web UI is a must-have, you will have to find suitable alternatives (for example cockpit, web-based file managers, web-based user management tools, etc)
I am playing with SFTPGO, while not being a backup solution its a great backbend supporting sftp, WebDAV and much more that you can bind with something on client side.
Currently using synchthing, but planning to switch since that is not a backup tool.
Kinda related: what if I install something like Debian/Ubuntu on it? Can I still use the NAS hardware in the same way?
And that’s what you should do because those NAS specific software is more overhead than solution. You can setup the entire thing manually use less resources and have it better. BTRFS is a good solution when it comes do a simple RAID.
To be fair for a basic NAS what you need is Samba 4 for shares and something like FileBrowser for a WebUI. Another suggestion I’ve for you is to really go Debian and use LXD/Incus to create containers and virtual machines if required. I’ve posted about it here.
I backup with kopia from one disk to another. Also having another backup to backblaze B2 cloud. Both backups are incremental and encrypted, you choose how many (daily, weekly, monthly,…) backups to keep. I have debian OS on DIY PC with OMV installed and Im happy with it
I thought I’d give this a shot, but the metrics/data collection flag was turned on by default and when I added a command to my docker-compose to turn them off, it was ignored. Then, I created an account and looked for a way to turn them off in the settings and there was none. You expect people interested in self-hosting OSS to be cool with sending data out of their network every time the server is started, a memo is created, a comment is created, a webhook is dispatched, a resource or a user is created?! Also, the metrics are collected by a 3rd party with their own ToS that could change at any time?
Holy hell, hard pass. I’d rather use a piece of paper.
Saved me the effort, thanks. Although, couldn’t you just block the container from talking outside your network? I can’t see why I’d need a memo app (server) to have access to the internet.
That’s not good enough in my opinion, it should be opt in, not opt out. They’re marketing it on their site as being more secure because you can self-host. It all just seems really skeevy.
It would appear that blocking app.posthog.com on the host/network resolves this. But I got the parameter to work, too, as per www.usememos.com/docs/advanced-settings/metrics use ‘–metric=false’ and bam, no DNS queries!
Yeah, I’d assumed it would respect the —metric=false flag when building with docker run, but docker-compose is ostensibly supported and easier to work with. I was able to successfully change other configuration options (such as setting the db to use MySQL instead of the default SQLite) using the docker-compose ‘command’ block, but the metric flag specifically was ignored. It’s entirely possible that this is a bug and not an intentional attempt to hoover up user data. Either way, data collection should be opt-in by default (by law, imo).
I’ve been extremely fond of “Our Groceries” for many years. It strikes a sweet spot between features and simplicity of use, and the devs are very responsive and have added several features after my suggestions. Really the only downside right now is that it can’t use the front facing camera on my wall mounted android tablet for scanning barcodes.
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