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New ReadyNAS that can use my existing NV+ drives and RETAIN DATA?
Hi,
My ReadyNAS NV+ is now out of support and so I'm considering replacing it with another ReadyNAS product. Over the years all of the drives have been replaced, in other words the current drives are not very old. My question is whether there is a newer product that will accept and use the existing drives AND FILESYSTEM as-is, retaining the data. Current NV+ is using X-RAID in a RAID 5 configuration.
Thanks.
No. Different platform and different filesystem.
Do you not have a backup of your data?
You should setup the new device and transfer the data over your LAN.
Netgear does offer assistance ( for a fee) in migrating disks directly from older to new readynas devices, but this is generally only necessary when the old device has suffered a hardware failure and is therefore a data recovery service. The procedure requires the user to backup the data once accessed so you would need disk space elsewhere anyway.
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No. Different platform and different filesystem.
Do you not have a backup of your data?
You should setup the new device and transfer the data over your LAN.
Netgear does offer assistance ( for a fee) in migrating disks directly from older to new readynas devices, but this is generally only necessary when the old device has suffered a hardware failure and is therefore a data recovery service. The procedure requires the user to backup the data once accessed so you would need disk space elsewhere anyway.
I have backup and the NAS is still working. I'm planning ahead here and was hoping not to buy a full set of drives. Cancel that idea.
Thanks.
You could use the same set of drives and restore from your backup, but that leaves you with only a single copy of your data for a while. Too risky I would say.
I am going to upgrade from a NV+ V2 to a new 314, can I just set up the new NAS with the needed shares and transfer the data via my network? I realize it will take some time (only 5 TB of data) but that's fine with me as I can let it work at night while still using the NV+ during the day until all data is transfered.
vtxrider wrote:
I am going to upgrade from a NV+ V2 to a new 314, can I just set up the new NAS with the needed shares and transfer the data via my network?
Yes. And that's the fastest way to do it (assuming gigabit). I'd create a backup job for each share on the RN314, and run them one at a time. Rsync would work well for this (though NFS is also ok). You probably will need to reset the owner/groups on the RN314 when you are done.
You could also back up to USB and then restore from USB. But that will take longer.
Roseville wrote:
My question is whether there is a newer product that will accept and use the existing drives AND FILESYSTEM as-is, retaining the data.
No. Netgear support can help you migrate the data, but you would need external storage to copy the data onto (restoring it later on after the new NAS reformatted the drives).
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