Sure. What I love about that application is that it lets me know where I’m using the most space, whether it’s junk files or not, and it tells me which folders contain the most data. However, I’m starting to miss having control over USB drives. For example, I can’t back up to external drives because it won’t let me select them. In my case, I have a RAID enclosure with the drives already configured, but it won’t let me migrate my data to that USB drive or create backups, which is causing me a problem. As you can see in the image. I also can’t share an entire drive on the network, only the internal folders… Any solutions for this?
I also have another issue I’m having trouble with: HTTPS. The version you offer is for machine-to-machine implementation, but that doesn’t n8n with Telegram or Whatsapp . Should I enable it automatically so it’s automatically enabled for ZimaOS and all containers?
It would also be fantastic if you could set the containers to update automatically, without having to update them manually.
Thank you for your feedback on the WinDirStat feature.
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ZimaCube | N150 | 64GB | 990 Pro | RTX 2000 | ZimaOS 1.5.1
As you can see in the screenshot, when I try to create a backup to one of my external (USB) hard drives, ZimaOS does not let me select them, so I cannot store backups on any USB device. I have this storage enclosure: https://www.amazon.es/dp/B0CNT937V6 but I cannot use it for what I need; I would really like to be able to assign these USB drives so they work the same way as the internal ZimaOS-HD storage.
I also cannot select any of those external drives to share them over the network as if they were a normal shared folder.
Points 2 and 3 are essentially the same thing; we’re talking about disks, which is why I haven’t split them into different threads.
I currently have ZimaOS v1.5.2 (it was updated today). The hardware doesn’t matter because the problem is with the software.
You want to back up data from your PC to the USB-connected drivers on ZimaOS.
For now, you can choose a USB drive as the destination on the Backup App located on the ZimaOS dashboard. But you can’t do it on the backup function located on the Zima Client desktop version.
After confirmation with my colleague, this doesn’t meet the product design. Our team will fix this.
And the workaround may be that you share the folder from your PC and mount it in your ZimaOS Files App so that you can back up your PC data to the USB-connected drivers.
Thanks for your feedback!
We’re already working on enabling “PC file backup to USB-connected storage” in Zima Client. This feature is currently under development and will be released as soon as it’s ready. I’ll make sure to notify you once it goes live.
The issue is that the application verifies the data, and of course, sharing an entire disk over a network isn’t the most advisable thing to do (security-wise). Regarding point 2, I have a USB drive that I want to share from ZimaOS, but I can’t. If this worked, I would do it the other way around and not share the ZimaOS disk; I would encrypt the copies afterward (I share encrypted copies of my data).
Wow thank you so much, that’s much appreciated.
I’m really loving the system and I’m already recommending it. It just needs a few tweaks to work out some features and it’ll be perfect for me, at least.
The idea of using a USB drive as physical system storage would also be fantastic. That way, it could be used to migrate data to RAID arrays (USB drives) and things like that.
I found a less than ideal work around for this by using a another backup client (GoodSync) to simply create a backup into the network drive via samba. Not ideal because it cost me another yearly subscription, and I’d rather have the NAS softtware do the work.
