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How to restore music to a reformatted NAS
I have a ReadyNAS Pro 6 RNDU6000. I just backed up all the data from it and did a factory reset. Then I upgraded it to OS 10 and put a pair of new larger drives in it to expand storage.
I have four quesitons:
1. What it the best way to restore my music from the backup to the rebuilt NAS? I could copy from Mac OSX which would let me take advnatage of the USB-3 drive I used for the backup and the gigabit wired network from my mac to the NAS but I wonder about data integrity. Alternately I can conect the backup drive to the NAS and use the backup function, runnning the job just once, I think this will be slower as the NAS only supports USB 2 but I wonder might the data integruty be better? When i did a test restoring just a few files from the backup OSX gave a couple errors about "file already exisits" even though I was restoring to a blank NAS. Note I re-factory-initalized it after that test so it is totally blank again now. On more idea I had was to use SSH with rsync, let me know if that would be better/faster. I will probably use this latter method in the future when I want to merge other musioc libaries into the main one so tht I don't get dupliactes.
2. Should I restore all the music before I re-install LMS?
3, Are there 2 LMS poackages to load or just one?
4. It apears all the factry defualt shares show the same size, Should I try toi re-size these so that the music volume its larger than the otherws? Or will all the volumes "share" the total space on rhe NAS so that this is not required?
Thanks!
I'd reload the files over the network. There are some tools that can check file integrity. I believe FreeFileSync has an advanced option that can verify (likely there are other programs that can do this also).
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I'd reload the files over the network. There are some tools that can check file integrity. I believe FreeFileSync has an advanced option that can verify (likely there are other programs that can do this also).
louprestia wrote:
4. It apears all the factry defualt shares show the same size, Should I try toi re-size these so that the music volume its larger than the otherws? Or will all the volumes "share" the total space on rhe NAS so that this is not required?
If you have one volume, then all the space is shared. I think you are confusing the meaning of the "available space". That is the full free space left on the volume, and it will be the same value for every share in the volume.
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