r/hexos

I have an HexOS license and want to migrate my truenas scale install to HexOS, as many do. I have been looking here on reddit and on the HexOS community forum and I find it very frustrating to read through posts that are 1-2 years old with varying degrees of success and detail of the process and different states of information about what is and will eventually be possible under what circumstances.

With the pace (especially new) software development is moving forward, I find it hard to base my decision on year old threads.

I feel like I am not the only one in this situation, who is running an active truenas install and bought a license early on but didn't follow every announcement during the beta testing phase.

I don't want to come across demanding but now with 1.0 released I feel like it would be in order to have a doc page for this topic.

Even if there is no full guide for a migration it should at least answer some FAQs like

- Is there / will there be a way to simply migrate my full truenas installation to HexOS?

- (If no) Which parts can (already) be migrated / imported or are on the current roadmap?

- What are the limitations?

- Which requirements need to be met (e.g. truenas scale, which version is currently supported?

- Can I (at least) export my truenas pool(s) and import them into HexOS and how?

- Can I migrate users and ACLs

We would like to announce 6 more app curations being released.

• Navidrome
• LubeLogger
• Blinko
• Portraker
• Dozzle
• Excalidraw

We have also improved our curation process and have now started a curation beta test program.

Read more about it here https://docs.hexos.com/release-notes/command-deck/2026-05-20.html

I've been trying to set up a local reverse proxy using NPM within TrueNAS so I can access my services like Immich via my own domain names on my local network (e.g. immich.mydomain.com) without the traffic going out through Cloudflare tunnel and back. (Cloudflare rate limits large file uploads, so the same domain redirecting when on my local network is a nice to have)

The problem is TrueNAS binds to 0.0.0.0 on ports 80 and 443, which means it grabs those ports on every IP address on the machine. There's no way to restrict it to a specific IP. This means any reverse proxy running on the same machine can't use those ports at all, even if you add a secondary IP alias to the network interface TrueNAS still blocks it.

The only workaround is to move TrueNAS to non-standard ports, but doing so completely breaks HexOS since it appears to hardcode to port 80/443 and loses all communication with TrueNAS. This makes HexOS fundamentally unusable for anyone who wants to change their TrueNAS ports. There desperately needs to be a manual port configuration in HexOS settings, I found a request on the forum from October last year but its had no traction...

I bought a terramaster NAS with 6 bays for HDDs and i think 2 nvme ports, since prices are crazy right now I wanted to start as small as possible since I dont have need for that much storage yet. However, with only one HDD i wouldnt get any redundancy and I read something about how you need to start with a reasonably big pool of storage because of how zfs works so that I can more easilly expand in the future.
Is that right? Did I get something wrongs?
Any tips for begginers would be greatly appreciated, I have a few years of linux sysadmin experience but never touched a filesystem that wasnt ext4 or TrueNAS.

One month ago “What's Next: With Local behind us, the team is focused on: Expanding the curated apps catalog with more one-click installs and deeper preconfiguration. This is the highest priority coming out of 1.0.”

It’s been a month and not even one new curated app. Come on guys.

I'm planning a build here very soon and I picked up a TRENDnet (TEG-25GECTX) 2.5g PCIE network card. I'm wondering before I pull the trigger on HEXos if anyone has experience with using this card?

I've e-mailed a couple of times and haven't gotten any response. I love the product when it's worked but since an update HexOS won't find my token, won't find my pools and all around no longer works at all. I've switched back to TrueNAS and have gotten that to do what I want. I'm well within the return period and am needing some help with this.

I know this is an incredibly basic question, but could someone give me an idiot-proof, step-by-step guide on how to replace a failing drive? The only simple thread I could find had a solution that linked to TrueNAS's documentation for the process, which I conceptually understand runs under HexOS, but haven't interacted directly with in the slightest, and all the rest were more technical than I could understand.

One drive is currently marked as Faulted (and the storage pool states that only 1 drive can fail without data loss), so I don't want to do anything incorrectly lose data. I've already gotten a drive of identical size to the failed drive, do I just turn off the system, unplug the broken drive, and plug in the new drive in its place? Do I need to have the new drive plugged in while the old drive is still plugged in and hit the "Replace" button in HexOS to have it copy stuff over first? Will I need to do something in HexOS after the drive is replaced to make sure everything is copied over correctly? I'm exclusively using the system as a NAS, so there aren't any apps installed/running.

Thanks for any help.

Hello, I am working on my very first NAS. I have a SSD for boot and 4 one terabyte drives. I would like to split them down the middle, having 2 TB to use and 2 TB as a backup. But when I create a pool it only allows me to do 3tb with 1 as a backup. Is there a way to change that I am not seeing?