Time for a new DIY NAS

[ddaenen1]

Due to the limited lifetime left on TrueNAS Core (FreeBSD) as IXSystems is pushing the move to TrueNAS Scale (Linux), eventually i will be forced to move over in order to keep my Nextcloud running since i use this for business purposes which is a pity as i got quite fond of FreeBSD. I need a seamless switchover though as Nextcloud is mission critical i cannot part of my current TN Core server so my plan is to build a second server for Scale. Also, my Core server is a bit aged (X9SCM-F with E3-1270v2) so the right timing to upgrade a bit. For that i am planning something minimalist: a decent X12/X13/X14 Supermicro board with an M.2 512Gb Nvme as boot drive and 2 8Tb SSD's in ZFS mirror all squeezed into a 1U Chassis (i do daily backups to an internal source and cloud storage so i am unsure i need more dedundancy). Where i now have SAS drives through a HBA, i will just use the SATA interfaces through the main board.

Before i go out and spend the money i thought of just throwing it in here and see what comes back...

 

[sfx2000]

Can we break this out - TrueNAS and NextCloud are really two different things, so migration to new solutions...

Sounds like the base is TrueNAS Core (BSD) - and hosted on older machine - that's ok, leave things running there...

I would set up the new box - if you want to stick with TrueNAS and their path, that's ok, set it up there as a clean host

The rest of it does go towards services - what is local, and what is remote...

TrueNAS is local, NextCloud is the remote

Rest is just setting up services - personally, I would have set up seperate hosts between TrueNAS and NextCloud - much like GhostBusters not crossing the streams...

 

[ddaenen1]

a key piece of information is that in the current setup, Nextcloud is installed in an iocage jail in TrueNAS Core. Also in TrueNAS Scale you have this functionality to install Nextcloud within the environment which is what i want as it combines the data redundancy functionality of the storage with the application.

 

[sfx2000]

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[ddaenen1]

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Not really. I am not interested to virtualize. The combination of TrueNAS as ZFS storage and Nextcloud running as an application in a jail in combination with pfSense to handle a reverse proxy with Letsencrypt certs. has always worked perfectly fine for me and is extremely solid as a setup and i could imagine it running perfectly fine for years to come. It is just a bit annoying that IX has abandoned FreeBSD in favor of Linux so in order to keep up with security and stuff, eventually i will forced to move over hence my thoughts to build a lean and mean new server to enable a smooth transition between the 2 systems.