Documentation

[revengineer]

I am currently on FreeNAS 11.3U5 and given the early adopter pain with the 11.3 release, I probably plan to stay there for some time. However, eventually I will move to TrueNAS Core. I have downloaded the ISO to play with it. However, I cannot seem to find a pdf manual for this version. I am also missing upgrade instructions and caveats. If someone could point me to these that would be great.

Thank you!

 

[Redcoat]

This thread might orient you https://www.truenas.com/community/t...-compared-to-11-3-cant-ix-do-something.87626/

 

[revengineer]

Thank you. That's a long thread and I have to admit I did not read it all. @Kris Moore 's statement that the strategy for documentation has changed is what I was wondering about. I personally liked the 400 page pdf file and over the course of the year have read most sections and will miss it going forward.

 

[Redcoat]

Yes, you didn't need to read it all to get the flavor.

 

[Andy McClements]

Thanks for the link to that other thread in post #2, I will read and digest..

I've come back here after a long interval, and I'm following-up on this thread, as this is my precise concern also. I'm a retired network/IT guy with diverse experience. I'd not used FreeNAS until around a year and half ago when I setup my first system to serve as a datastore for my home business. That went fine, but I never really finished the job off, in terms of monitoring and alerting, data protection, and DR/contingency procedures.

I've come back to sort that out, and frankly I am apalled by the lack of decent documentation available for FreeNAS. All I can find is the very scanty 'User Guide' which are really only a overview of the GUI controls. They completely fail to go into adequate detail in many key areas such as config management, backup/recovery and DR procedures. To me it seems that FreeNAS serves as more of a hindrance than a help at the moment, and feel its really quite risky for me to continue using it.

I am seriously considering abandoning FreeNAS as a consequence of this and replicating the services I need (which are quite limited) on the native OS. i have some experience with FreeBSD so that would be my first choice.

 

[Stilez]

12 shouldn't have early adopter issues, its pretty solid.

 

[danb35]

12 shouldn't have early adopter issues, its pretty solid.

...other than the precipitous decline in both the quality and the quantity of the docs.

 

[Stilez]

...other than the precipitous decline in both the quality and the quantity of the docs.

Well, that. But the sw itself is proving pretty damn solid and bugchecked.