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thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I think you are missing the point how easy is to fuck things up in a console with truenas when trying to activate de duplication or making a backup VS the same thing in a user friendly, already tested private solution. Of course from the noob point of view.

Installing truenas when having no idea about almost anything is cumbersome, dealing with the millions options (some of them incompatible between them) is frustrating, cryptic error codes are discouraging…

You want people jump in? Then make it easy for them, lower the entry barrier, if not, you will find yourself alone in your ivory tower.

The exact same ia true for you synology NAS. + the limitations on how synology thinks you should do backups vs how it actually suits you.

If you already know how to setup a proper backup system, balancing the pros and cons, with a robust and solid way to avoid data loss, then you don’t qualify for noob.

If you don’t know any of that and still makes yiur backup system, that’s the recipe of the disaster and you have real probabilities of losing data with nay option to recover.

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ShortN0te@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

I think you are missing the point how easy is to fuck things up in a console

No i think you are. Why should a beginner ever even touch the CLI? You can also SSH into the synology and fuck things up.

Using a ‘friendly environment’ like synology is not gurantee to not fuck things up.

Installing truenas when having no idea about almost anything is cumbersome, dealing with the millions options (some of them incompatible between them) is frustrating, cryptic error codes are discouraging…

What millions of options? You select a drive, and set a password and your done? 1 Set fewer then on synology.

You brought up TrueNas. TrueNas for example also gives you safe boundaries and suggestions how to set up things. Same as synology. There is literally also a setup wizard for backups.

AND AGAIN just because you follow the synology wizards does not mean your data is safe either. You always can fuck things up if you want to.

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- thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
  Oh I see, could you please point to that system that
  
  it is free and not tie to any vendor
  
  easy to use to the point that my grandma could use it
  
  properly tested by an active q group
  
  with safe boundaries
  
  production ready
  
  total flexibility
  
  with a proper wizard / gui that is self explanatory, robust enough to make sure you don’t select contradicting options.
  
  If such system exist perhaps I move my homelab, who knows…
  
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  - ShortN0te@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago
    Thats exactly my point. Both are not. But you keep claiming synology is compared to others.
    
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