Patrick_3000
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I might need to migrate from Scale back to Core, and I'm wondering if anyone has any advice as to whether I should do so and any tips on how to do so.
As some brief background, I have a home lab that's used to store not only my personal and work data, but also my spouse's home-based business data. Until last year, I used Truenas Core (and before that Freenas). However, last year, I switched to Scale. The only reasons I switched are that I'm more familiar with Linux than FreeBSD, and I thought Scale would be easier to maintain. I don't use any containers or VMs.
As it turns out, I was wrong about maintainability. I learned recently that rsync modules are being phased out of Scale in the next version, Cobia, which is due out later this year. The reason has to do with security, which is not an issue in my case since the rsync modules I use back up to other (non-Truenas) clients that are behind an OPNSense firewall in my house. Switching to SSH rsync, rather than module rsync, would be unnecessarily complex and would slow down backups.
So, I'm considering migrating back to Core. My questions are: (1) is Core continuing to support rsync modules? (2) how can I do the migration? Is there any way to do so automatically (like by restoring a config file)? Or would I need to manually reconfigure everything? (3) Is Core expected to be supported long term?
As some brief background, I have a home lab that's used to store not only my personal and work data, but also my spouse's home-based business data. Until last year, I used Truenas Core (and before that Freenas). However, last year, I switched to Scale. The only reasons I switched are that I'm more familiar with Linux than FreeBSD, and I thought Scale would be easier to maintain. I don't use any containers or VMs.
As it turns out, I was wrong about maintainability. I learned recently that rsync modules are being phased out of Scale in the next version, Cobia, which is due out later this year. The reason has to do with security, which is not an issue in my case since the rsync modules I use back up to other (non-Truenas) clients that are behind an OPNSense firewall in my house. Switching to SSH rsync, rather than module rsync, would be unnecessarily complex and would slow down backups.
So, I'm considering migrating back to Core. My questions are: (1) is Core continuing to support rsync modules? (2) how can I do the migration? Is there any way to do so automatically (like by restoring a config file)? Or would I need to manually reconfigure everything? (3) Is Core expected to be supported long term?
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