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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 ca...
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.
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.
Dewdman42 wrote:
I was hoping to avoid buying another HD just for this.
You should be making regular backups of the NAS anyway.
I back up my most important data to the cloud, and barring a big emergency I don't want to wait 5 weeks to download it again after I upgrade the OS. I dont want to buy another disk. Any other suggestions?
Temporarily pulling the mirror drive will work, though of course you lose all raid redundancy.
I understand that.
Do you know if OS6 on the Ultra 2 plus supports the external USB port? If I pull the drive, plug it into USB and use ReadyNAS4 to format it and then backup the data, then upgrade to OS6, will OS6 recognize that external USB drive?
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