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Mirror OS4 Shares to OS6 via eSata?
I am in the process of loading my new RN316 from an old Ultra-6 running OS4. Currently using a Windows utility called Beyond Compare to mirror the shares, but my LAN speed is not as wonderful as ...
There is no such capability, regardless of the OS you are running. The Ultra doesn't even have an eSATA port, but that's not a contributing factor. If you were already runing OS6 on the Ultra, you could just move the drives over. But nothing available is going to be faster than a network copy. Just how slow is it? Maybe where you need to devote some effort is seeing if you can speed up the Ethernet speed.
Do you have a gigabit lan?
If not, adding a cheap gigabit switch to it (and perhaps a cheap gigabit network card to the PC, if required) to connect both NAS's and PC will give better throughput
Also, BeyondCompare will copy everything through the Windows PC.
You'll do better to set up a backup job on the OS6 system and pull the OS4 data directly (skipping the Windows middle man).
That is part of what I was trolling for: something that runs on the OS6 box to take out the Windows middleman.
Can you put a name on it so I can read up on it?
Or is is just "Backup" and part of The System?
The backup feature is part of the system, and it described in chapter 13 of the software manual: http://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/READYNAS-100/READYNAS_OS_6_SM_EN.pdf
I use rsync for this myself. There is a step-by-step guide for OS 4->OS 6 backups here: https://kb.netgear.com/29730/How-do-I-back-up-data-from-a-RAIDiator-4-system-to-a-ReadyNAS-OS-6-system
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