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Migrate a volume os6 readynas 316 to 516
I am currently running a 516 poppulated with 6 wd 4tb drives in raid 6 i have a backup nas 316 poppulated with 6 seagate iron wolf pro 10tb running same up to date firmware. I want to expand the 516...
Whether the 516 gets the same IP depends on how it is assigned. If it is assigned by DHCP reservation, then it will stay the same, as it will follow the MAC address. If it is staticly assigned by the NAS, then it will follow the drives until you change it.
TeknoJnky wrote:
The apps folder is not remotely accessible.
You will need to access via SSH console with putty (ie copy it to a shared folder).
No, you can access it directly without using ssh. /apps in the OS partition is a mount point for /data/.apps.
You can see the full data volume if you use the NAS admin credentials when accessing the NAS. From Windows you can open CMD and then enter
net use * /delete
net use T: \\nas-ip-address\data /user:admin nas-admin-password
Be careful on typing - spaces and the slash direction are both easy to get wrong. The first command closes any open network sessions. The second maps the NAS data volume to drive letter T. The "data" part in the second command is the name of the NAS data volume. That is "data" if you are using XRAID. If you are using flexraid, you might have named it something else.
.apps is a hidden folder. You can set windows to show hidden files to you, or you can just enter t:\.apps\plexmediaserver in the file explorer address bar.
There's lots of files in there - my system has ~5000 files and ~1000 folders.
But where do you type CMD i access the nas from a browser using the ip address to open the admin user interface i dont understand where you are supposed to type these commands into help please
You do that in Windows File Explorer, not a browser.
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Thanks to you all for your input have printed out all the info and tips you have given i will download the nas settings and also hope that when i restore these will save some time drives will be here monday will make sure over the weekend end the backup nas is fully synced to the main nas and bight the bullet
Hi guys tried your instruction i've got stuck
Looked in frontview to enable SSH got warning that if enabled Netgear would deny help and as didn't know if could disable after got nervous
So downloaded WinSCP tried all sorts of things using FTP typed some of your commands plus the one from the plex website /apps/plexmediaserver/MediaLibrary/Plex media Server
all to no avail
New drives arrived today but would rather wait to see if i/we can managed to save and restore the Plex inc file any help suggestions would be most appreciated as always from you guys
pgjscottieuk wrote:...Looked in frontview to enable SSH got warning that if enabled Netgear would deny help and as didn't know if could disable after got nervous...
I told you how to do it without ssh here: https://community.netgear.com/t5/Using-your-ReadyNAS/Migrate-a-volume-os6-readynas-316-to-516/m-p/1450029/highlight/true#M139629
The commands in my post are all done from Windows, no ssh involved.
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