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Bob_Nes
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Dec 13, 2014

How to Upgrade Disks in ReadyNAS Duo V1

I have an older Sparc ReadyNas Duo V1 with RAID-X and two 500 GB Disks.
We use our NAS as our primary network storage within the media share.

There is the regular assortment of folders with office documents, etc within the media share, the largest being "pictures".
I use the backup share on the NAS for snapshot backups of Quickbooks and to make an image copy of a couple of notebook computers.

Our NAS is on UPS backup and it is set to power off when the UPS gets to 30%. The RAIDAR health screen shows 33 minutes of UPS power.
I use the power off/on scheduler to power off every night around midnight and power on around 7 or 8 AM. This has worked flawlessly.

The NAS is about 75% full, so I have purchased a pair of 2TB disks to replace them.
I chose the WD20EFRXAZ, which is the NAS specific RED versions.

I was backing up my NAS to a 500GB MyBook, alternating between two of them, monthly or whenever.
They will be replaced by 2TB MyBooks, again an alternating pair of them.
I run two backup jobs, one with source: media share and one with source: backup share. The second job is checked to "Unmount usb drive after backup".

I have never had to perform a "restore", so I need a little guidance. And THANKS IN ADVANCE! for your help.

In reading other posts, it seems like I should do a "complete backup" (or two), and a configuration backup.
Power off, remove old 500GB disks.
Install new 2TB disk.

Then somehow do a "factory reset"?

Restore my configuration backup.
Restore my data.

Could it be that easy? Detailed question follow...

I appreciate every bit of help and advice you can give me. For sure, I know almost nothing of LINUX!

What I think I know may be only enough for me to be dangerous, but here is what I think:
to backup/restore the configuration, I plan to use the Frontview panel of System>Config Backup, the "backup" tag and choose "Everything".
I see this creates a .zip file which I have on a couple of PC desktop screens.

I assume that I'll restore the ReadyNAS configuration from System>Config Backup, the "restore" tab and pick that .zip file from my desktop?

For data backup and restore,
I think I use the Backup> Add a new backup job and define it to save everything.
So does that mean two backup jobs: one each with the source my media share to a destination of USB front panel,
and another with the source my backup share and destination the USB front panel.
OR should I using the source of "Select this ReadyNAS or remote"? Is that an option?
What is meant by "volume C:" ? Is that the C: drive on my local PC or the entire drive in the ReadyNAS?

To RESTORE, it seems like I need to create more "backup jobs" with the source and destination reversed?
For RESTORE, my source would obviously be the USB front panel, but what is the destination?
Is "Select this ReadyNAS or remote" an option for the destination?
I don't see "volume C:" as a destination, so "volume c:" probably doesn't refer to the ReadyNAS disk?

It seems like I would need two RESTORE "backup jobs"? One for my media share and one for my backup share?
Unless there is a way to simply "save all data" and "restore all data"?

Thanks for helping this non-LINUX guy understand.
As a non-LINUX user, how can I look at my backup drive to be sure that it is complete?

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