Migrating between two Synology diskstations

Supercow · 17 Aug 2015 at 16:56

My old NASbox died a death, and I went and bought a new one (different, newer 4 bay model).

https://www.synology.com/en-us/knowledgebase/tutorials/484

All of Synology's guides, are based on having a working source box. 2 of my drives are raided (synology's hybrid raid), as they contain all my backup photos / personal important stuff.

Can anyone tell me how I would go about migrating the disks over to the new model. If I just put them in, I'm assuming the new nasbox will just want to format them? Any advice welcomed!

bledd · 17 Aug 2015 at 17:00

Ask on the Synology forums, that's your best bet.

Also, surely you have a backup of your data?

Supercow · 17 Aug 2015 at 18:12

I thought that it was the idea...to have two mirrored drives with all my stuff, my backup being the second drive.

Broken Hope · 17 Aug 2015 at 21:58

Raid is for redundancy rather than backup. E.g. if a drive fails you still have access to all your data until you replace the drive.

You should still have a full backup of all your data, more than one if possible.

Supercow · 17 Aug 2015 at 23:13

Well, I don't

Caged · 17 Aug 2015 at 23:25

Just shove the disks in the new unit and it will work out what's going on.

arty · 18 Aug 2015 at 10:42

I've just done this (DS214 - > 414) very successfully. I followed the tutorial on this page:

https://www.synology.com/en-uk/knowledgebase/tutorials/651

My DS214 was still working but the only things I did on there were bringing DSM up to date and backing up the configuration. In a pinch I reckon you could do without both of these, if you're prepared to redo some configuration manually on the new box. All of the data was in place and available before I restored the configuration.

Give me a shout if you have any more questions, as it's all still fresh in my mind (did it Sunday)

Supercow · 18 Aug 2015 at 12:07

arty said:
I've just done this (DS214 - > 414) very successfully. I followed the tutorial on this page:

https://www.synology.com/en-uk/knowledgebase/tutorials/651

My DS214 was still working but the only things I did on there were bringing DSM up to date and backing up the configuration. In a pinch I reckon you could do without both of these, if you're prepared to redo some configuration manually on the new box. All of the data was in place and available before I restored the configuration.

Give me a shout if you have any more questions, as it's all still fresh in my mind (did it Sunday)

Thanks Arty, much appreciated. I don't really care for any of the configuration, just want my files there.