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cmelkin
Nov 22, 2021Aspirant
Backup and Restore Entire NAS on Bigger HDD
Wondering if anyone can offer any advice I have a ReadyNAS 312 with two 6TB drives in RAID 0 and it works great!! But I am running our of space, and thought of upgrading to two 12TB drive. Is t...
Sandshark
Nov 23, 2021Sensei
Well, sortta. You can back up the configuration via the Settings page of the GUI and data via backup jobs. Some app configurations will be backed up and some apps will require you to separately back up their data, especially if it's in a database or was installed via SSH instead of a ReadyNAS-specific app. You cannot back up the apps themselves. Then you swap out the drives and create a new volume. Be sure to re-install the apps before you restore the backed-up configuration. Since you aren't destroying the original volume, you can always swap the drives back and get anything that you forgot to back up. With two volumes, you could replace only one of the drives now and re-use an old one, but that would make recovery from the old one impossible.
FWIW, RAID0 is a very vulnerable configuration, Any loss on one drive kills the data on both. You may want to consider setting up the drives as separate volumes. That means you have to manually distribute content between the two, but it makes recovery from a drive failure easier. Note that it will still have no redundancy (which really isn't enough to protect your data, but helps) I hope you already have and plan to continue to have a backup unless the NAS is already only backup data.
- cmelkinNov 25, 2021Aspirant
Thanks Sandshark
You said " You can back up the configuration via the Settings page of the GUI and data via backup jobs"
However I cannot find where to do this and it is will also back my app setting like Plex Meta data etc.
It is in RAID 0 just to have a fast large storage, for many years I had a ReadyNAS Pioneer 6 bay NAS in XRAID and 12TB of Data Space.
However first PowerSupplly died and then the motherboard died
So eventually had to throw it out
As Netgear don't do many NAS anymore then I had to buy another brand, which I now have a 12 Bay device with 24TB of Data Space
and back up the by two bay nRN312 Netgear to the 12 Bay RAID- in a RAID 10 format, so backup and data loss is not an issue.
And they I also backup all of this offsite to a cloud services. So I have lots of redundancy for the data
Its just all the settings when I put in the new drives that is concerning me, and my plex meta data etc.
Thanks Again
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