IntrepidExplorerI’ve found myself at a crossroads for my journey in #selfhosting - my NAS kicked the bucket, and now that I’ve rebuilt it, TrueNAS doesn’t want to install on the fresh hardware. Debian installed fine. Combine that with the recent closing down of TrueNAS, and I’m leaning a bit towards just trying a plain old Debian server. Is it worth fussing with the installer of TrueNAS? Or is a longer term solution just actually learning Debian?
Jack C.@IntrepidExplorer I've been learning bare Debian after an openmediavault upgrade broke my whole install. Everything is fine so far 👌
@GandalfDG Thanks for the longer term feedback! There will certainly be a bit of a learning curve for me, but it seems like a safer long term bet, both for skill building and less reliance on a company keeping things open.
@IntrepidExplorer based on that one experience, I've decided that I'd rather install individual tools and configure stuff myself rather than having a big "metatool" control everything.
When you're in that ecosystem and need to reconfigure something there's no knowing what might cause conflicts or break everything.
Only my offsite backup is running openmediavault now as I don't have direct access to it that often.
Here's my whole current setup:
https://yuno.jack-case.pro/bookstack/books/homelab/page/software-and-configuration-inventory
@GandalfDG I've definitely been looking for simpler and less abstracted solutions these days - more understanding from my side of things instead of letting something/one do the thinking for me.
Thanks for sharing your setup! . . . I should probably start documenting mine a little more officially . . .