Yeah I am pretty comfortable with CLI on linux, but I just never bothered with TrueNas. Also I am lazy and once something works I just leave it there even when I could improve it lol.
I have been meaning to venture into Proxmox as well but I don’t have the time or spare parts to get a new machine running atm. Maybe someday I’ll get around to it though as it seems like a nice playground without breaking things.
Damn that is a nice setup lol. I only built mine a couple years ago and only managed to get 5x 16TB drives at $169 each. I have 4 in the system and one cold spare.
I have tended to avoid cli on TrueNas mostly out of fear that I’ll mess something up and I’ll be too lazy to fix it. That was my main motivation behind switching to Dockge for containers, it even shows apps running through other container management systems, although you can’t manage them through there.
I have a single dataset running off of an ssd pool that stores config and application data. Large media gets stored on a separate pool on spinning disks. The app dataset gets snapshotted and backed up, but I am yet to create a separate offsite backup.
I am also in the process of switching away from TrueNas “Apps” to actual Docker containers running from compose files in Dockge. These compose files all get version controlled in Git as well. Apps have been really difficult to configure initially as many of the fields have odd requirements you can’t see until it errors on startup. I have found it easier to follow the documentation directly from the application I am installing so compose files have been much more straightforward.
Books and comics I do grab manually, as I haven’t found something that works super well.
However, I have started using Kapowarr for comic management and mass renaming to match the file/folder structure Komga expects. It is still lacking some features but the developer has been making steady progress on it and the only two major features I feel its missing are metadata creation, and torrent indexers. The latter of which should be part of the next version and may boost its ability to automate downloads. I can’t attest to its manga support as I don’t read any, but it grabs its metadata from comicvine so that will likely be the determining factor. The developer also only permits LLM generated code under rather strict rules iirc.
As for ebooks, I grab them from my chosen source and just use the upload button in calibre web automated. I haven’t found an automation tool worth using yet, but I do like to keep an organized library in case I want to revisit something or share it with someone else.