Application metadata / settings location?

[Whe3zy]

Hello all,
After spending some time researching on the internet, I cant quite find the answer that I'm looking for. I'm hoping this community can get me on the right track or even provide the answer that I am looking for.

I would like to back up the application metadata/settings for programs like Plex Server, Tautulli and others. Is there a default location of which each application data is maintained at so it can back it up?

Current system: TrueNAS-SCALE-22.02.4

My understanding is that Scale uses Applications (not jails) and Core Edition uses Jails. I'm assuming that each Scale vs Core would have their own respective location for each metadata/settings.

Or does such data need to be accessed and saved off from within the application itself and not in the TrueNAS file structure?

 

[sretalla]

My understanding is that Scale uses Applications (not jails) and Core Edition uses Jails.

Correct

I'm assuming that each Scale vs Core would have their own respective location for each metadata/settings.

Follows from the above, also correct

does such data need to be accessed and saved off from within the application itself and not in the TrueNAS file structure?

In some cases it can be helpful to do so (such as the Unifi Plugin/App).

For jails, the data is directly accessible in the jail filesystem.

For Apps, it can depend on a couple of factors:

Which app did you use?

What settings (in particular for persistent storage) have you made when setting up the app?