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jackaninny
Nov 06, 2011Aspirant
Moving from ReadyNAS NV to Pro 6 - Best plan?
I'm getting ready to move over to a new Pro 6 from our existing NV unit. Current NV unit is running 4.00c1-p2 firmware and has about 800GB of data stored on it. What is the best method of moving da...
tenney
Dec 21, 2011Aspirant
mdgm wrote:
9. Run backup jobs to transfer data across to the Pro 6. Best to use NFS for full backup jobs and then change backup job properties to use Rsync for incrementals.
I "always" seem to forget: when you setup the backup job to copy from the "NV+" to the new "Pro", that's a backup job on the NV+ --- right? i.e. pushing from the NV+ to the Pro, rather than pulling on the Pro from the NV+?
I'm moving from two NV+'s to one Pro 6 so I'm in a similar situation... although in my case I have multiple user shares, multiple timemachines, and multiple "media" shares all to be combined somehow (i.e. may combine into a single huge media share or leave it as two shares on the Pro).
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