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• K3can@lemmy.radio ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Late to the party, but if you really want a GUI for ZFS, 45drives has a ZFS plug-in for cockpit that works quite well.

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  • thelemonalex@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Huh, I hadn’t understood that Cockpit is another server OS that I can use. Okay, I’ll keep it in mind, thanks!

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    • K3can@lemmy.radio ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      It’s not. It’s just a GUI for a server.

      It’s a modular GUI, though. The base install allows basic server management: system stats, upgrades, and a couple other bits. However, you can install additional modules to expand the GUI to allow for storage management, ZFS management, container management, file sharing (NFS, SMB), a file browser, VM management, user management, and so on.

      My go-to “NAS system” is just standard Debian with Cockpit and a handful of supporting modules. It gives a nice GUI like OMV, but with all the flexibility and control of a normal Debian install.

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• Lem453@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One thing to consider is that once zfs is setup there really is no significant intervention that is needed. I probably haven’t done anything to my proxmox zfs array in years.

  I know its almost a meme to say just learn command line, but unfortunately in this case it will really help you understand what is happening and it also just takes a few commands to setup up once and then never worry about it again.

  After the inital setup, the zfs GUI will be pretty much unused.

  For commands I don’t use often, i use a note taking software to keep track of commands I used during setup because years go by before I use it again. I find the GUI often changes in that time making it harder to replicate whereas command line is the same and easier to document.

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  • thelemonalex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, you’re totally right. Okay thanks, will do

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• 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Well erm that I can’t get around… but I guess it depends on what you want to self host. I use truenas as a storage solution, standalone and it works very well for that - I have had it up and running for years and years. It also stores personal files and is not exposed to the internet apart from updates and a few other things. Then I have an old 4-node server from Supermicro which hosts the stuff I need and uses truenas to store the data. Now that is probably overkill but the data is safe and backed up well. Truenas has apps for a lot of things, and other ways to host docker containers if you have the latest scale community edition. So perhaps you could do it that way

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  • thelemonalex@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, but I don’t have two separate machines, that’s why I’m using Proxmox. And I used TrueNAS previously, with TrueCharts, and I wasn’t happy. It was pretty unstable and finnicky for me, and hard to go back to, after running docker in a clean Debian VM, which has been rocksolid so far. Still, thanks for your suggestion

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    • 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Like I said - each to their own. truecharts the apps are pretty much known to be more unstable as well, says that everywhere in the documentation. Truenas if it’s up to date, using their app catalogue with stable selected is pretty rock solid for everyone.

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      • 3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Also I have to say that the whole idea of truenas is moving towards enterprise even if you self-host it. They’d much rather you bought a whole system than on your cobbled together old stuff. That’s why it is now community edition, a simple way of saying you are gonna get bugs and things that don’t work

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      • thelemonalex@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You’re right, their own app catalogue is stable, but I like trying out new docker apps constantly, and I feel like I’m limitted in my options if I only use their catalogue. Still, thanks for your replies.

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