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 I this article I will walk you through the entire build of my NAS, using TrueNAS.
 
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 ## Choose the the right platform
 
 
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 After comparing the solutions, the choice was made to use TrueNAS Community Edition, which is the new name of FreeNAS.
 
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 ## Install TrueNAS
 
 The installation of TrueNAS didn't go as smooth as I expected id to be.
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 Now let's configure some data protection features, here is the `Data Protection` tab:
 ![Data protection features in TrueNAS](img/truenas-data-protection-tab.png)
 
+I want to create automatic snapshots for some of my datasets, those I care the most are my cloud files and the photos.
 
+Let's create snapshot tasks. I click on the `Add` button next to `Periodic Snapshot Tasks`. For the `cloud` dataset, I create a daily snapshot with a lifetime of 2 months, for `photos`, only 7 days should be fine:
+![Create periodic snapshot task in TrueNAS ](img/truenas-create-periodic-snapshot.png)
 
+I could also create a `Cloud Sync Task` but I already have Duplicati managing this.
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 ## Use of TrueNAS
 
+Now my TrueNAS instance is configured, I need to plan the migration of the datas from my current NFS server to TrueNAS.
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 ### Firewall rule
 
 ### Data migration
 
 ### Android application
 
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 ## Conclusion