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Mirror existing NAS to new NAS?
Hi everyone, After my close call with almost losing a volume (viewtopic.php?f=66&t=55910), it is time to seriously consider moving to dual-redundancy for my main NAS with a complete kept-up-to-date...
I would recommend you purchase the Pro 6 (RNDP6000-200). A key difference is the faster CPU: CPU Specs of the ReadyNAS
If purchasing diskless, I would suggest you put one disk in the new NAS, upgrade to the latest RAIDiator (be sure to reboot when prompted to install the update and then verify the update was successful). Then power down, put all disks in (must be at least four) and do a factory default via the boot menu (http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/boot/how_do_i_use_the_boot_menu). Discover the NAS using RAIDar (http://www.readynas.com/downloads) A few checks will be run, then a 10 minute window will commence where you can click setup and choose X-RAID2 and tick the dual-redundancy option (I believe this is the default when you have 6 disks installed in the NAS when you do a factory reset, but best to make sure). Be sure to confirm your choice. The volume will then be created and you will have a clean setup on the latest firmware.
I would setup the new NAS perhaps configuring manually or restoring from Config Backup. I would suggest you at the very least backup the users and group from the old NAS and restore them to the new one. The key thing is you want the same users and groups with the same UIDs and GIDs respectively.
You can use Frontview backup jobs to transfer the data across. You can use NFS for the first backup and then edit the backup job properties to use Rsync for incrementals.
If purchasing diskless, I would suggest you put one disk in the new NAS, upgrade to the latest RAIDiator (be sure to reboot when prompted to install the update and then verify the update was successful). Then power down, put all disks in (must be at least four) and do a factory default via the boot menu (http://www.readynas.com/kb/faq/boot/how_do_i_use_the_boot_menu). Discover the NAS using RAIDar (http://www.readynas.com/downloads) A few checks will be run, then a 10 minute window will commence where you can click setup and choose X-RAID2 and tick the dual-redundancy option (I believe this is the default when you have 6 disks installed in the NAS when you do a factory reset, but best to make sure). Be sure to confirm your choice. The volume will then be created and you will have a clean setup on the latest firmware.
I would setup the new NAS perhaps configuring manually or restoring from Config Backup. I would suggest you at the very least backup the users and group from the old NAS and restore them to the new one. The key thing is you want the same users and groups with the same UIDs and GIDs respectively.
You can use Frontview backup jobs to transfer the data across. You can use NFS for the first backup and then edit the backup job properties to use Rsync for incrementals.
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