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AdrianM
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Mar 29, 2016
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Migrating ReadyNAS Duo to RN102

It's been a while. Sigh. So, my trusty old sparc box needed an update - it's still going strong but is just too slow by today's standards so I bought a RN10200 and a couple of Seagate 2Tb (yes I'm on...
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    StephenB
    Mar 30, 2016

    It's a bit faster to reorganize on the duo, and then do share-by-share backup to the RN102.  Shares are subvolumes on the RN102, so moves between shares become copy/deletes.  Also if snapshots are enabled, they also can start taking up space.

     

    So maybe create the folders on the duo that you ultimately want, then access the duo's C volume (\\nasip\C with NAS admin credentials), and shuffle the files around.  Then use share-by-share backups to get them onto the RN102.  Drag/drop works, but all the data is copied through the PC. 

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