Securely replacing 8 drives on 2 Pro Nas ?

StephenB wrote:

think this should work since the Pioneer and the Pro are both x86 platforms.... Though I have no experience with the Pioneer - maybe someone who does will chime in... try putting the WD's into the pro (powered off), right after you have done the factory reset with the WD drives on the Pioneer. If if boots properly, then the disks can be migrated. If not, you haven't lost much, all you need to do it put the WD's back into the pioneer (and possibly do another factory reset there). Be careful not to migrate drives with the unit powered up, as it will assume it should reformat, etc.

StephenB wrote:
You can save the configuration on the Pro and restore it on the Pioneer - the main gotcha is that you need to manually install the addons on the Pioneer before you restore the config.

StephenB wrote:
You can backup the entire C volume, ...The fastest way is to use NFS for the initial backup, and then edit the backup job to use rsync. rsync is faster for updating, but is compute intensive, so it is not fastest for the initial backup.