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Migrate ReadyNAS Pro 6 to ReadyNAS 526X? Questions: Diskless? Easiest reliable migration approach?
I have a ReadyNAS Pro 6 with 6 1TB drives and will need to upgrade. Since I'm running out of space and this unit is EOL it seems time to move on. I'm thinking I should get a ReadyNAS 526X. I'm thinking to get it diskless and then put in 4TB WD Red or Red Pro drives. Any thoughts on that?
Most importatly, what is the easiest reliable approach to migrate my data?
I've done some searching. It seems like the options include:
Rsync - not sure that is easiest enough for me to easily handle? Is there a good current tutorial someplace?
Could I just swap the 6 existing 1TB disks from the Pro to the 526X and then sequentially replace them with the larger 4TB disks and allow it to rebuild on the growing array?
I assume simply copying folders over the network is a PITA and subject to errors?
Is there a way to connect the 2 NAS via USB while doing the migration, would that help?
What is best approach?
Thanks
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Your pro has plenty of headroom, you could certainly upgrade the drives in it. Though it won't expand more than 8 TiB from the original volume configuration w/o a factory reset, you could certainly back up the data, install 6x4TB, and do a factory reset.
Though the RN526x looks like a very good NAS, so it is a nice upgrade.
The easiest way to migrate your data is set up the old NAS (leaving the old one operational).Then use frontview backup (choosing rsync as the protocol). I always do one backup job per share.
When you are done, you could use your pro as a backup NAS (perhaps converting it to OS 6).
If I use Frontview/Backup - then what options and settings would I want to choose to copy over the entire NAS to a new NAS? Is there a step by step tutorial on this someplace?
Well, I always do one backup job per share myself.
There's a pretty good backup faq here: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29788/~/readynas-backup-faq?cid=wmt_netgear_organic
This section is closest to what you want: http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29741?cid=wmt_netgear_organic
OS-4 offers the same backup options as OS6, though they are organized somewhat differently in the UI.
Hi, per your message:
"Your pro has plenty of headroom, you could certainly upgrade the drives in it. Though it won't expand more than 8 TiB from the original volume configuration w/o a factory reset, you could certainly back up the data, install 6x4TB, and do a factory reset."
So can you help me explore just a disk upgrade on the pro 6. I've got 6x1TB w/ XRAID2. If I do an upgrade to this box, I'd like to do a disk by disk swap, without needing to backup existing data. What is max size I could go to? 6x3TB or 6x4TB? Thanks
If your original factory install was 6x1TB, then it could expand to a 13 TB volume. So if that's the case, you could go with 5x3TB+1TB.
But if you started with 1x1TB, then the ceiling would be 9 TB, and you'd be limited to 3x3TB+3x1TB
The most flexible approach is to switch to OS-6 (although it does require a factory reset). Then you have no known expansion limits.
If you have no backup strategy in place, then I'd suggest getting the 526x with new disks, and then re-purposing the pro as a backup NAS. You could then increase its capacity over time (shifting to OS 6 when/if expansion fails). That's what I'm doing myself.
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