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Hi All,

I am just wondering if there are very many TrueNAS/FreeNAS users here.

Anyway...

How to Install Zoneminder 1.34 on TrueNAS Core 12.0-U2

1) Pick the Zoneminder plugin and pick the "Install" button.

Yep, in 2 miniutes it is working, as long as you have a DHCP server on your network.

Thanks,
Joe

So how's it going

Very good so far(1 minute install is hard to complain about) the there are a few of my gripes(some issue with FreeNAS, the plugin or FreebSD):

*1) purge disk when full appears only to work on the default location - fixed, must specify store location
2) I can't load an nvidia video driver into FreeNAS or the jail since the device is not showing up for the FreeNAS OS
3) there is some bug with devfs rules where I cannot even pass a Intel GMA card to a jail
4) I have never done an upgrade to a newer version in a jail or a FreeNAS os upgrade...

other than those gripes it is working perfect for 3 of my cameras running 6 objects so that 3 of them are linked. I have tried to use older versions of FreeNAS to see if the 12.0-U2 broke something and it looks like 12.0-U2 makes it useable, the other relases I could not get to work with H264 passthru on my Amcrest 841b or 1051b camers.

I am running this on a junk Precision T1500 with 12gb of ram, i5 650 and mirrored 2tb drives, it is very responsive. I had to make sure for my iocage jails and store points to turn off compression and I also disable atime and sync(contraversial as ZFS guru's say never to do this but I have never had any issues).

I like the TrueNAS on your hardware idea, and considered running it myself at one time a couple years ago after my 1st Synology NAS got zapped by a lightning strike. I just could not see much advantage to it over rolling your own servers.

Acewiza wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 4:00 pm I like the TrueNAS on your hardware idea, and considered running it myself at one time a couple years ago after my 1st Synology NAS got zapped by a lightning strike. I just could not see much advantage to it over rolling your own servers.

Rolling your own is a pain in the ass. Once we get TrueNAS Scale(based on debia) I think we will be able to get docker containers to work perfect. The issue I still have and hope gets resoved with TrueNAS Scale is to use a video card for the encoding/decoding. With three camers I really don't neeed it.

TrueNAS core 12.0-U2.1 works really well, I like the ability to punch in numbers for may storage and have them go up and down for the ZFS quota, so I don't need to use much or can keep making the sm storage area for HD recordings bigger if/when needed.

One of the free plugins in TrueNAS Core 12.0-U2.1 is speed test, so in a click of the mouse you can test the speed of your network from your desktop to your storage. I think the Phoronix plugin has a way to test and show results on your disks, this is on my to-do list.

I have made so many tests that I have a text file with notes so I can do a fresh install and re-make all my settings so that it works perfect. Next I want another store to be used for archives. This way I can put my iocage jails and main store on a NVME disk and when I archive a video it goes to the old mechanical drives. I would only archive the HD video so I am trying to make sure my linked cameras can make the video with all the motion that I want to keep.

smokinjoe wrote: ↑Sat Feb 27, 2021 6:48 pm I have made so many tests that I have a text file with notes so I can do a fresh install and re-make all my settings so that it works perfect.

That's one reason why I started liking the Synology stuff. If you could at least remember your network details, any sort of re-do was just a matter of sitting there re-installing things. But even that can be a onerous task if you have more than a few things going on there. I've since gone to a strictly image backup scheme for the running portion of any systems I keep. Do the build once only, with each succeeding backup bringing it "back-up"-to-date. No more re-installing a bunch of stuff, until it's time for new hardware. Failure recoveries apart from hardware issues are never more than a Clonezilla session away.

with zoneminder the backup is a pain, command line dump of the database. With a TrueNAS jail it is easy :

iocage stop zm
iocage export zm
iocage start zm

That is why it is important to keep all the data on a ZFS dataset...

I have to disagree with ZM backup is a pain...
mysqldump -u root -pCoolPassword zm | gzip -9 -f > /zm/store1/dbbackup/zmdb.sql-"`date +"%d"`".gz

Restore is easy too.
mysql -u root -pCoolPassword zm < zmdb.sql

Both should work well, I just have an aversion to stopping things to make a backup.

I just did my backup and restore and have an error:

ERROR 1840 (HY000) at line 24: @@GLOBAL.GTID_PURGED can only be set when @@GLOBAL.GTID_EXECUTED is empty.

smokinjoe wrote: ↑Sat Mar 06, 2021 2:50 am I just did my backup and restore and have an error:

ERROR 1840 (HY000) at line 24: @@GLOBAL.GTID_PURGED can only be set when @@GLOBAL.GTID_EXECUTED is empty.

Not a common ZM issue, but a quick web search online comes up with a few things you can try. I think most of them involve removing the GLOBAL_GTID_PURGED switch from the .sql file.
e.g. https://superuser.com/questions/906843/ ... error-1839

Hi Andy,

I added the --set-gtid-purged=OFF and I was able to backup and restore!

Thank you!

Hi,
the Truenas plugin is 1.34.21. How can I manually update the zoneminder within the Jail?
thank you
Paul

All,
I am new to Zoneminder.
I want to install ZM on TrueNas and have the following question:

Is the installation of ZM on TrueNas a full installation? Means can I install ZM Plugins (e.g. recognition plugins)?

Many thanks,
& Cheers,
Toskana