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I am thinking about upgrading my Ultra 2 plus to OS6. I don't have another disk large enough to backup my readynas /c drive ahead of time. I am wondering if anyone has any suggestions for how I can do this upgrade without having to buy a new hard drive to backup my data?
If I have to I guess I can remove one of the mirrored drives, run the NAS in single drive mode long enough to do the upgrade. Put the other drive i a USB enclosure, copy all files there, then upgrade the NAS to OS6, copy the files back and then finally put the drive back in to re-enable mirroring again.
However I thought I read something about legacy hardware having USB problems with OS6.
Does anyone have any suggestions about this or reccomendations for the best approach for preserving my data during the upgrade?
OS6 should recognize it.
Though it is actually faster to connect the USB to a PC, and copy over a gigabit network. At least according to the original smallnetbuilder review.
In any event, you should use NTFS formatting, so you have something you can read if the upgrade fails.
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My suggestion is to buy the larger USB drive.
Hi Dewdman42,
Just go buy 1 or 2 drives suitable for backing up your nas by connecting them to your normal PC. ( FASTEST )
or
Just go buy 1 or 2 drives suitable for backing up your nas by connecting them to your normal PC via USB. ( SLOW )
I have 2 internal docks connected to my via internal SATA on my motherboard to use in occasions like this.
Since i can switch discs i can also use them for other purposes too.Regarding upgrading to OS6 i was a bit reluctant too, was reading the same as you probably have.
I have a RN Pro Business 6 bay unit.
Finally i upgraded to 6.3.5 and it worked like a charm! So satisfied with it!
After a few day i got "there is a update available" message, the 6.4.0 ver. I read that some had some various problems but decided to try anyway.
What can i say, it worked perfectly!! I have not found any issues yet.
I followed this: https://community.netgear.com/t5/ReadyNAS-in-Business/OS6-upgrade-question-on-legacy-Pro-6/td-p/978854
The Rootax solution.
Good luck!
// Hans
I was hoping to avoid buying another HD just for this.
How about if I take out one drive, since its currently in mirroed raid mode, run the Readynas on a single drive. Format the other drive and copy all the data to it as either a format that can be recognized by the OS6 USB port (does that need to be ext or what?). Then after I restore the data, plop it back into the Rreadynas and enable mirroring?
I could definitely just format it for my mac and backup the data over the network if I have to. I was wondering if that would be possible somehow over USB instead. One nice about doing it over the network, I guess, is that I can just use a utility like Carbon Copy Cloner which may bypass the OSX finder for the copy and restore procedures...so in that case maybe I don't have to care about whether OS6 will support USB on my Ultra 2 plus in OS6. But I was just wondering if someone could confirm whether or not USB will work on my Ultra 2 plus with OS6 and if so, what disk format would be needed.
I may end up just upgrading the whole thing to a RN314 or Synology DS415+ afterall, we'll see...in which case I would be buying more HD's, but I was hoping to avoid that for the near term. Maybe its not worth the hassle to upgrade to OS6 on this box, hard to say.
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