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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
Thank you for the response. The NAS requires at least one disk to configure before hand correct?
DTurley wrote:
The NAS requires at least one disk to configure before hand correct?Yes. And the configuration is saved on the disk(s), so there's no point in doing configuring the NAS and then removing the disk(s) and migrating.
Updating the firmware is a bit different though, as that is also saved in the flash. If you migrate, the system would compare the firmware in it's flash and the firmware on the drives. If the flash is newer, it will update the OS on the disks. If the OS is newer, then it will update the flash from the disks.
Marc_V suggested updating the firmware prior to migration - which is a bit cleaner, since the new system won't need to upgrade the OS partition as part of the migration.
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