Hello,
is it possible to install the sanoid & syncoid tools on a TrueNAS using apt install? Or is there too great a risk of ‘breaking’ the whole system? Has anyone had any experience with this?
Best regards
Only if you enable developer mode, which in return will void your option to file bug reports. Otherwise apt is disabled. If they can run inside a docker contaienr you can try to install them as custom apps, or use an lxc and install them there via apt and map your datasets to the lxc.
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Ah, right, it does seem a bit tricky when apt is disabled. I don’t have LXC here; I’m using Scale (sorry, I forgot to mention that), but I reckon the containers in Scale should work as well. (I’m guessing they’re not LXC). I’ll give it a go.
Do I have direct access to the TrueNAS filesystem’s datasets via these containers? Or does that have to go through the network again? If so, I might as well just use a separate VM on my ProxMox.
container in scale are lxc… with incus as backend, but that will change in truenas 26 to libvirt…
Edit:
The menu point “Apps” in scale are docker container
The menu point “Container” are lxc container.
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Hello @trebong
I’ve been using this tool for over a year and have been very happy with it.
No ‘install-dev-tools’ required.
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Hi @nihil2040, thanks so much for that great tip! 