Lisa Lorenzin KR4LFE (she/her)Mar 29

#homelab gurus! I am considering replacing our old #Synology DS1525 with a #TrueNAS, mostly because I want to run #Immich, #Paperlessngx, and #jellyfin on it without having to deal with Syno's out-of-date #Docker implementation.

If you're running TrueNAS, two questions:

1) how hard was it to get automated backups of #Windows and #Linux systems set up? I do appreciate Syno's built-in backup tools.

2) how bad an idea would it be to run these compute loads on the NAS vs a separate compute node? We are *not* heavy users - just the two of us and we're pretty casual about home use, so it feels like loads would be pretty minimal...

Any thoughts and suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Show threadSeth Hanford 🐡Mar 29

@llorenzin apologies in advance for a slightly out of scope answer, but perhaps it will help you along the way. I run Paperless NGX on my Syno 923+ and it has no issues. If your TrueNAS compares favorably to a 923+, a small user load should have no issues w NGX.

On the backups side, I run a nightly cron with the built-in Paperless exporter to dump all my files from the db to a file directory to ensure the docs get backed up, because my use case is much more sensitive to data loss than metadata loss.

Show threadMrs Mouse at work
@ckure @llorenzin
excellent scoping of backups, but really the metadata isn't much to backup either.
Mar 29 at 12:19pmWeb
Show threadSeth Hanford 🐡Mar 29
@MrsMouse @llorenzin that’s a great call out. I’m using “document_exporter”, but it’s a full dump capable of being restored (with a less than descriptive name) https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/administration/#backup
Administration - Paperless-ngx

Show threadLisa Lorenzin KR4LFE (she/her)Mar 29
@ckure @MrsMouse thank you!! That's really helpful - I appreciate the clue sharing. :)