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Moving disks to "new" unit after a failure
I've done a little research, but just want to confirm that my plan will work: Briefly, I have an old ReadyNAS that has failed, so I've purchased a similar unit on ebay. I don't have it yet, but the...
Old disks installed, restart successful, files saved! (Again, these were just "nice to have" files - no wedding photos were ever at risk.) There is some flakiness in transferring files to a new server I had happened to just get, but that's been normal - various gremlins had slowly accumulated in the old unit. I'm looking forward to erasing everything on the NV+ and starting fresh.
I'd like to thank all those who contribute to this forum, my wife, my parents, my producer, the caterers ....
I should summarize, for the benefit of those who may follow: My old infrant NV failed. Got a never-used Infrant NV+ on ebay for $96 - lucky me - with disks and original firmware installed. Being an Infrant-branded unit, there was no question about it being a version 1 SPARC-based unit - necessary for my old disks to work. The firmware on my disks was newer than on the replacement's flash memory, so I had to upgrade - it would not start up otherwise. This wasn't difficult except for one thing: the old Frontview did not behave well with Safari - a critical button would remain inactive, exceptionally frustrating, I gotta tell you. The upgrade process worked fine with Opera. Then the unit was able to start up with my old disks.
I'd like to thank all those who contribute to this forum, my wife, my parents, my producer, the caterers ....
I should summarize, for the benefit of those who may follow: My old infrant NV failed. Got a never-used Infrant NV+ on ebay for $96 - lucky me - with disks and original firmware installed. Being an Infrant-branded unit, there was no question about it being a version 1 SPARC-based unit - necessary for my old disks to work. The firmware on my disks was newer than on the replacement's flash memory, so I had to upgrade - it would not start up otherwise. This wasn't difficult except for one thing: the old Frontview did not behave well with Safari - a critical button would remain inactive, exceptionally frustrating, I gotta tell you. The upgrade process worked fine with Opera. Then the unit was able to start up with my old disks.
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