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a #TrueNAS, mostly because I want to run #Immich, #Paperlessngx, and #jellyfin on it without having to deal with Syno's out-of-date #Docker implementation.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 threadCodemichaelMar 29
@llorenzin Do you need a NAS or a Hypervisor? If you're comfortable managing ZFS I would recommend going with Proxmox instead of TrueNAS as others have noted. Otherwise maybe look at something like Unraid. TrueNAS seems to be going through transition right now of closing down their open source nature to cater to enterprise more directly.
Show threadLisa Lorenzin KR4LFE (she/her)
@codemichael I desire both; was hoping to put them all on the same box, but many people have suggested separating compute from storage, and for very good reasons, so that seems like The Way. In which case I can just stick with Syno for my NAS, since our old one has held up really well.
Mar 29 at 4:17pmWeb
Show threadCodemichaelMar 29
@llorenzin I have an old Synology as well. I won't be replacing it with another one, but it's also pretty good at just being network storage until I do.