Howto copy data from a TN Scale dataset to a directly attached USB drive?

[flashdrive]

Hello,

given that this should be the linux doing and not strictly TN Scale related I somewhat do feel embarrassed to ask:

How would I mount an externally attached USB drive, formatted with exFAT and directly copy data from a TN dataset to this USB drive?

The shell would be one option, but how exactly to do? I am lacking the command wisdom

1. mount
2. copy
3. dismount

Is there an “easier” way by using the webgui of TN? supposedly not

I have read these:

Importing data from external NTFS drive

Actually, reading more into this, it might not be that easy, there’s an open issue on it here that suggests that even though it’s documented in the man-pages it might not actually work in Linux: Edit: Maybe modify date is enough?

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[winnielinnie]

@flashdrive

How would I mount an externally attached USB drive, formatted with exFAT and directly copy data from a TN dataset to this USB drive?

Not supported by TrueNAS.

You’d have to do everything in the command-line, but you might risk creating a problem in the process.

It’s safer to just plug the exFAT USB drive into a Linux or Windows PC, and then copy the data from a TrueNAS SMB share over the local network.

[Arwen]

@flashdrive

How would I mount an externally attached USB drive, formatted with exFAT and directly copy data from a TN dataset to this USB drive?

To clarify what @winnielinnie said, one reason it is not supported is that whence the files are on TrueNAS, they will likely not have correct ownership or permissions. This caused problems for years, so iX removed that function from TrueNAS SCALE.

Further, just because TrueNAS SCALE has Linux under the hood, does not make it a Linux distro. TrueNAS, (Core or SCALE), is an appliance OS. And while you can turn TrueNAS SCALE into a more general purpose Linux computer, it is all on you.