Truenas

Overview ZFS replication is my favored way of doing backups. In my homelab I have 2 systems running TrueNAS scale - one on my production hypervisor, with the disk controller passed through, and the backup server, which is just a baremetal TrueNAS Scale installation. Unfortunately, most of the tutorials on this process seem to use either the root account or at the very least, an account with admin privileges. In this article, I’m going to go over how you can get a ZFS replication setup working with a completely unprivileged user, without ever leaving the GUI. ...

Overview Recently I watched the following YouTube video by apalrd on how he was using Nginx as a caching reverse proxy for Debian, Ubuntu, and other APT repositories. I was inspired by this to do the same, but instead of spinning up an LXC for this task, I’m using the built-in Docker functionality in TrueNAS. With Electric Eel introducing Docker Compose support, TrueNAS is now far more flexible in this regard. ...