File transfer from a QNAP NAS to a TrueNAS NAS w/o an intervening Windows computer

TrueNAS General
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Hi and Happy New Year to those who have already welcomed 2026 in!

I was gifted a Dell PowerEdge R740 with 2 Xeon Gold CPUs, 192GiB of RAM and eight tiny reindeer, oops, disk drives. I got TrueNAS up and running and can access the share that I set up and can transfer files from the QNAP mapped drive to the TrueNAS mapped drive. The transfer rate is slow, I am assuming, because all the files are going through the 1GbE computer interface.

Is it possible to somehow transfer the files from one NAS to the other NAS without an intervening computer?

Please let me knw what you think and thanks!

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Only if you use something like rsync, since it’s not officially supported to mount storage to truenas ( don’t know about qnap).

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I did this with 90tb of data through a 10gb connection and though it was slow, it was the most reliable way to do it

i should note the qnap is setup with their gui and apps to do this a little easier than truenas is for a basic level user like me

Mounted the truenas share onto the qnap using hybrid mount (or whatever they called it) and then just did a copy/paste. Walked away and it was sorted. So truenas as destination, mounted on qnap via smb

I’ve done it with a ‘Mac in the middle’ also and it was less reliable.

I regularly backup my qnap to a true nas box using their sync software and that’s been reliable once I got through some initial issues with it failing.

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Thanks LarsR and Marty! I’ll delve into that a little later.

Edit: Installed Hybrid Mount and was able to QNAP RSYNC to the Dell R740/TrueNAS without a hitch.

Thanks again!

Joe