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Data Migration from NV+v1 NAS to New RN314
Current Network Setup is all Netgear Hardware:
Gigabit Switch
Gigabit Router
Cable Modem
Old NAS is ReadyNAS NV+, Firmware: RAIDiator 4.1.13, X-RAID
New NAS is ReadyNAS 314, Firmware: 6.1.8, X-RAID
I have an 2013 iMac as my desktop connect by LAN to the network
I am migrating my shares to the new NAS, a NETGEAR chat support suggested RSYNC Protocol and a Backup for each share initiated from the new NAS. I set that up and have started moving the first 470,000 MB of Data. 9 hours into it and if my maths are correct, I am averaging 26.25Mbps And expect another 30ish hours for it to complete.
Was that my best choice? I realize my bottle neck is the speed of the NV+.Any suggestions for the next there shares? One is 600,000 and the other two are less than 100,000 each.
Also, I planed to set up time machine and allow all there computers to create new Sparsebundles on the new NAS, but considered copying over the old ones to Share for potential use. Good or Bad idea?
Gigabit Switch
Gigabit Router
Cable Modem
Old NAS is ReadyNAS NV+, Firmware: RAIDiator 4.1.13, X-RAID
New NAS is ReadyNAS 314, Firmware: 6.1.8, X-RAID
I have an 2013 iMac as my desktop connect by LAN to the network
I am migrating my shares to the new NAS, a NETGEAR chat support suggested RSYNC Protocol and a Backup for each share initiated from the new NAS. I set that up and have started moving the first 470,000 MB of Data. 9 hours into it and if my maths are correct, I am averaging 26.25Mbps And expect another 30ish hours for it to complete.
Was that my best choice? I realize my bottle neck is the speed of the NV+.Any suggestions for the next there shares? One is 600,000 and the other two are less than 100,000 each.
Also, I planed to set up time machine and allow all there computers to create new Sparsebundles on the new NAS, but considered copying over the old ones to Share for potential use. Good or Bad idea?
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- It would be faster to use NFS as the protocol, then edit the job to rsync and re-running it (which would be incremental). The backup job approach is certainly faster than using USB transfer.
- Your reply is a bit confusing to me as I am likely missing something, but you say NFS is faster, but you said to "edit the job to rsync...". It already is rsync and it seems they are mutually exclusive. On editing the job on the SOURCE tab, I can choose the NAME to be "remote:nfs" or"remote RsyncServer". I do not see a setting that allows both.
Also, will that increase my transfer speed by a noticeable amount, by this morning (rsync) it has settled to average 25.97Mbps. JustKJ wrote: Your reply is a bit confusing to me as I am likely missing something, but you say NFS is faster, but you said to "edit the job to rsync...".
(a) Create the next backup job using NFS as the protocol. Then run it.
(b) Edit that backup job, changing the source protocol to rsync. Then run it again.
You are currently getting 3 MB/s (25 mbits, which is ~3 mbytes), this approach should get you something around 20 MB/s. Step (b) is very fast, it just ensures that permissions, etc are all aligned.
Also, when you are done, you might need to reset share and file ownership on the RN314 side. User accounts and groups generally use different UIDs and GIDs, and "nobody" and "nogroup" in particular are not aligned.- Thanks. I am all set to run a new job on the next share once the first job finishes. My luck is if I canceled the backup, something bad would happened, so I am letting it finish. If anything it will serve as a benchmark for the next jobs.
I did notice that in the setting for the backup job, on the OPTIONS tab, is an option: "After Backup is complete, change ownership of files in the back up destination to the share owner if the the destination is a ReadyNAS share." Would that make step B unnecessary?
I'd do it anyway - it is easy enough and runs quickly. It also double-checks that everything was transferred.JustKJ wrote: ...I did notice that in the setting for the backup job, on the OPTIONS tab, is an option: "After Backup is complete, change ownership of files in the back up destination to the share owner if the the destination is a ReadyNAS share." Would that make step B unnecessary?
BTW at one point there was a bug in that option - I'm not sure if it is still there or not. The backup job set the share folder owner during the backup (in my case to a UID that wasn't defined on the OS6 system). Then because I'd checked the option, it reset ownership of all the files in the share to that same wrong value.- Good News and Bad News. Good news is the NFS transfers are MUCH faster--it achieved 166Mbps on the second transfer.
Bad news, during the second transfer I realized that retailer sent me the wrong unit. Now I need to wipe the drives and send it back. I am going to post a question to a different forum about how to best accomplish that as there is financial data and a simple delete of files is not going to be good enough.
Thanks again for the help StephenB
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