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ReadyNAS 2304 add and remove drive in JBOD mode
Hi, I have my ReadyNAS 2304 with inside one 4 TB drive (with XRAID activated and JBOD mode). I would like to remove this 4 TB drive to use it in another ReadyNAS I use for other purposes with just a 4 TB drive inside and where I would prefer to have redundancy.
I'm going to purchase a new drive for the ReadyNAS 2304, bigger than 4 TB, abut I'm not sure about how will I have to proceed to keep safe the data already stored in the volume and to use the bigger space I'll have with the new drive.
I was thinking that one way to proceed could be this one:
- insert the new drive in a free bay of the ReadyNAS 2304 and wait until the end of the synchronization;
- remove the 4 TB drive from the Readynas 2304;
I think at the end of the process I could have a space bigger than before and equivalent to the size of the new drive (with XRAID activated and JBOD mode).
Am I right or the entire process will not be that simple?
Thank you for your help
emme-n wrote:
I was thinking that one way to proceed could be this one:
- insert the new drive in a free bay of the ReadyNAS 2304 and wait until the end of the synchronization;
- remove the 4 TB drive from the Readynas 2304;
I think at the end of the process I could have a space bigger than before and equivalent to the size of the new drive (with XRAID activated and JBOD mode).
Am I right or the entire process will not be that simple?
Thank you for your help
It's not that simple. You'll end up with a degraded 4 TB volume if you use that process.
You could
- power down both the 2304 and your RN102
- remove the disk(s) in the RN102 - labeling by slot so you restore them properly later on.
- put the 4 TB 2304 drive in the RN102, and power up. It should boot.
- do a fresh install with the new disk in the 2304.
- copy back the files using ReadyNAS backup jobs.
- power down the RN102 and restore the original disk(s)
Alternatively,
- change to flexraid on the 2304.
- create a new jbod volume with the new disk, and copy the data to it with ReadyNAS backup jobs. Put any home folder data into a public share on the new disk temporarily, and uninstall any apps.
- export the 4 TB drive and then remove it.
- reinstall your apps, and repopulate the home folder data if needed.
Either way, I would recommend backing up your data, as disks (and NAS) can/do fail at any time. Plus there is always some risk of mishandling (accidentally dropping a disk for example).
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emme-n wrote:
I was thinking that one way to proceed could be this one:
- insert the new drive in a free bay of the ReadyNAS 2304 and wait until the end of the synchronization;
- remove the 4 TB drive from the Readynas 2304;
I think at the end of the process I could have a space bigger than before and equivalent to the size of the new drive (with XRAID activated and JBOD mode).
Am I right or the entire process will not be that simple?
Thank you for your help
It's not that simple. You'll end up with a degraded 4 TB volume if you use that process.
You could
- power down both the 2304 and your RN102
- remove the disk(s) in the RN102 - labeling by slot so you restore them properly later on.
- put the 4 TB 2304 drive in the RN102, and power up. It should boot.
- do a fresh install with the new disk in the 2304.
- copy back the files using ReadyNAS backup jobs.
- power down the RN102 and restore the original disk(s)
Alternatively,
- change to flexraid on the 2304.
- create a new jbod volume with the new disk, and copy the data to it with ReadyNAS backup jobs. Put any home folder data into a public share on the new disk temporarily, and uninstall any apps.
- export the 4 TB drive and then remove it.
- reinstall your apps, and repopulate the home folder data if needed.
Either way, I would recommend backing up your data, as disks (and NAS) can/do fail at any time. Plus there is always some risk of mishandling (accidentally dropping a disk for example).
OK. I've imagined that it would be more complicated than I wrote before but I was hoping not to be right.
Thank you for showing and explaining to me two alternative ways, I'll proceed with the backups and I'll try one of them.
Hi,
I'm proceeding in my task - substitute a 4 TB drive with a new 14 TB drive in my ReadyNAS 2304 saving the existing data and configured services - trying to follow the first way suggested in the previous post, but I decided to change the first steps of the plan so I managed to copy and backup all the data of the old 4 TB to other disks connected to the network (just to avoid to boot the ReadyNAS 102 with a new full disk inside and its related step with its "it should boot").
That is all done, I would like now to proceed with the fresh installation of the new 14 TB drive in the ReadyNAS 2304 but I would prefer not to lose all the configurations already set (users, applications, backup programs, ecc.). Could I avoid to reconfigure all these settings making a "configuration backup" with the "everything" option before removing the 4 TB drive and restoring it after the installation of the new 14 TB drive?
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