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Upgrading from RNDP400U to RN214
Hello, This is my first post in this community. I'm also a novice at this. I have had an RNDP400U in X-RAID2 (RAIDiator 4.2.28) on my home network for several years now but have been approachin...
DuckyMoMo wrote:
Should I just set up the RN214 clean and transfer the files from the Ultra to it over the network?
That is the best way. Create the shares on the RN214, and use the web ui backup to migrate the data share-by-share. rsync is a reasonable backup method.
Do you use the private "home" shares? Those are a bit more difficult.
DuckyMoMo wrote:
Any way to do a disk swap method...
No.
DuckyMoMo wrote:
I will probably keep the Ultra on the network for extra storage as well.
You could also use it for backing up your RN214.
Note that you can switch the ultra over fto OS6 if you want (though I both OS 4.2 and OS 6.6 NAS on my network, and that works well for me).
DuckyMoMo wrote:
Should I just set up the RN214 clean and transfer the files from the Ultra to it over the network?
That is the best way. Create the shares on the RN214, and use the web ui backup to migrate the data share-by-share. rsync is a reasonable backup method.
Do you use the private "home" shares? Those are a bit more difficult.
DuckyMoMo wrote:
Any way to do a disk swap method...
No.
DuckyMoMo wrote:
I will probably keep the Ultra on the network for extra storage as well.
You could also use it for backing up your RN214.
Note that you can switch the ultra over fto OS6 if you want (though I both OS 4.2 and OS 6.6 NAS on my network, and that works well for me).
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