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cmelkin
Aspirant
Nov 22, 2021

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...
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cmelkin
Aspirant
Nov 25, 2021

likeman 

Thanks Likeman

 

I have backup

 

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 I 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 reconfiging of the Shares and Users and my plex meta data etc.

 

Thanks Again.

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StephenB
Guru - Experienced User
Nov 26, 2021
cmelkin wrote:

 

my plex meta data etc.

 

Backing up the plex meta data is a bit tricky.  I think the simplest way is to use ssh, and then just zip the metadata folder.

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