Copy from USB

Hi everyone.
I’m new to TrueNAS and today I just installed TrueNAS ElectricEel R2.

For testing purposes, I plugged my USB disk into TrueNAS but couldn’t access or see my data. Besides I have 10TB of data in another HDD and I’m thinking of transferring it all using HDD Enclosure. Now, don’t know how to copy all removable disk data and paste it to TrueNAS. Please help.

TrueNAS doesn’t include any mechanism to do this, unless you want to do it manually at the shell. The recommended and supported way to get data onto your NAS is by sending it over the network using a file-sharing protocol.

In TN core, there Is a function in Storage → Import disk to do what you are tryng… but don’t know if Is available in Scale too (and if Is somehow reliable/manteined in core too, i used It just once and quite lot of time ago).
Btw, as already suggested, transfer over network will do the job

I believe, copy from/to is an essential feature for quick data transfer and TtueNAS doesn’t have that! :roll_eyes:

By the way, network sharing is not possible so could you tell me the shell method?

That feature was removed around a year or so ago because there were problems with maintaining file attributes during transfers and iX decided to remove that feature in a previous version of scale.

Believe what you like; the feature isn’t there. It had been in earlier versions, but never worked well, and didn’t preserve permissions appropriately.

What do you mean? It’s a NAS, of course it’s possible.

Google will tell you all you need to know about mounting drives and moving files in Linux.

I’m using Scale and I don’t think it has this feature.

It isn’t; I didn’t think it was in CORE any more either. But definitely not in SCALE.