COMPLETE TrueNAS Community Edition (Scale) Setup Guide for Beginners

Learn how to set up TrueNAS Community Edition (formerly TrueNAS Scale), detailed for beginners. Don't make common mistakes!

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0:00 TrueNAS Community Edition (Scale)
0:32 Creating a Pool (ZFS, Encryption, Layout)
6:06 Creating a User / Group
7:00 Creating a Dataset + Permissions
9:19 Access Control List (ACLs)
10:52 Data Protection
11:08 Scrub Tasks
12:00 Snapshots
13:35 S.M.A.R.T Tests
14:54 Backups
16:22 Apps (Dataset + Docker Setup)
19:16 Final Thoughts on TrueNAS

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[MikeyD]

Awesome video and perfect timing as I am setting up my TrueNAS server as well. Love your videos.

One thing I wanted to point out is that the LONG smart test you had * in the hour field which will run the job every hour on the second of the month. Also if you choose days of the month AND day of the week, it acts as a conditional and will pick either or because every 2nd of the month may not fall on a Sunday. Just an FYI

[DJRisi]

Thank you! Once I found out that my router settings were the issue, this really helped finsh getting everything set up.

[MaxSvcks]

Probably the best guide I've seen so far!

[unflectrh]

Many thanks! This is the first video of yours I've watched and it's exactly what I needed.

[michaelwatson]

Absolutly perfect thanks, particularly thanks for explaining why you would want to do things, not just "i'm doing this, press this button" etc.

[diotitus]

This is an awesome overview of TrueNAS! Thanks for the video Frank. I can't wait to see how well TrueNAS's switch to Incus for their virtualization management backend works. To be able to run KVM, LXC, and native Docker all on one system now is excellent.

[Venaloid]

This is very helpful, for someone like me who is already somewhat familiar with server stuff. Thank you!

[tylertc]

Hey, wanted to say been following your videos for a while. Thankful for your reviews, no-nonse and to the point approach with just the right amount of tangents and helpful info! ALSO thank you for taking the time to write all this stuff out. That is super helpful when configuring so I do not have to skip through the video etc. Thanks again!!

[jakeallen]

I would like to see a video on Backups. I’m doing a rsync to a second TrueNAS but I would love to see if I did it correctly!

[MartinHiggs]

Thanks for creating the guide 😊 just watching. I appreciate the pace of the video is easy to follow with good explaination along the way.

[neogx]

Thanks for this video i was going to get synology for my upgrade of my old 1515+ but with all that drama they created I'm looking at truenas now

[damienlefran]

Thanks for video! I just setting my first TrueNAS.

[BeckerShorts-TV]

I'm going to set up my first NAS server next week and I was looking for a tutorial to help me. I loved the video and found it very explanatory, and I would like you to address the cloud backups part if possible. Also, if you could show practical examples of HD loss or even if the TrueNAS OS storage dies, how can I recover my data and the pool, or even restore a cloud backup. Thank you very much, greetings from Brazil

[TechMeOut]

Excellent video Frank! just outstanding! I really enjoyed watching and actually i got the itch to try it myself!

[lukedmac]

I’d love to see a video of how to segment the arr stack (running in truenas) with unifi gear. At the same time, running smb and iSCSI. How do we segment with vlans?

[Paul_______]

are you going to make a vm guide on the new community edition?

[MrBillwildbill]

Thank You for the Video. When I was creating my datasets under Docker. I got DATA under Stacks not under Docker. I made one under Docker also. But how can I delete the one under Stacks. Thank You Billy M.

[Indigofrost]

how do i change ix-application to what you set without losing the data in there?

[Tintmaster]

Do the drive have to be the same size and speed? I have 4x 10TB WD Red plus and 2x 24TB Exos... what would be best setup.

[xxgg]

Thank you for the video.
Would you please share with exact model of the motherboard you are using with that 5700X CPU? Seems that some motherboard can detect and use ECC ram but specifically activate ECC. THANKS.