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Upgrading from ReadyNAS 312 to ReadyNAS RN424 and need suggestions on data migration
Hello all, My business currently runs on a ReadyNAS 312 running OS 6.10.2 and I have purchased a ReadyNAS RN424 as an upgrade. What is the easiest way to migrate over all data including users, pe...
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Migrating your RN312 to RN424 is as simple as putting in all of the disks in order. See Migrating a volume.
It is best practice as well to initialize the new NAS first and update the FW to the latest which your RN312 has right now.
If you plan on expanding your volume then this would be the best time as well, If you are planning to increase the capacity of your disks, another option is to setup the RN424 with 4 new disks and transfer the data from the RN312 using the backup manager on the NAS..
HTH
Regards
Welcome to the Community!
Migrating your RN312 to RN424 is as simple as putting in all of the disks in order. See Migrating a volume.
It is best practice as well to initialize the new NAS first and update the FW to the latest which your RN312 has right now.
If you plan on expanding your volume then this would be the best time as well, If you are planning to increase the capacity of your disks, another option is to setup the RN424 with 4 new disks and transfer the data from the RN312 using the backup manager on the NAS..
HTH
Regards
Surely a combined solution would work by migrating the 2 disks from RN312, achieving the OP wish to avoid setting up from scratch the RN424, followed by introducing 2 new (larger) disks to expand?
bedlam1 wrote:
Surely a combined solution would work by migrating the 2 disks from RN312, achieving the OP wish to avoid setting up from scratch the RN424, followed by introducing 2 new (larger) disks to expand?
That would of course work also. Though I want to point out that the order matters here - if you use XRAID/RAID-5 you can't set up the RN424 with the larger disks and then add the smaller ones from the RN312.
- Ok, migration went perfectly. Now with two empty bays, can I simply add two blank SATA drives to to those bays to essentially double my RAID1 configuration?
Actually, you'll get tripple the space with two new drives the same size as what you have, unless you want to do something different. With XRAID enabled, when you add the first one, it will convert the RAID 1 to RAID 5, doubling the space because it still only have (or need) one drive for reduncy. And the 4th drive will add the same amount again (plus any extra space the third had over the others). Each step will require a sync, so it takes some time.
If you want two RAID 1 volumes (and I don't know why you would), you need to toggle XRAID off and the system will let you create a new volume from the two new drives.
if you only need the spoace form one new drive right now, it's best to just add that. Sync time is shorter, and it spaces out the operting times of the drives, making simultaneous failure less likely.
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