Moving content from one NAS to another?

bristol86

bristol86

bristol86

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Hi All

Is there an easy way to do this?

I'm picking up a new Synology NAS drive to replace my Buffalo Linkstation, and I have about 1TB of data (movies, music and assorted other files) on the old NAS that I need moved to the new one.

Now, when I got my new computer recently, it took 20 hours just to transfer 40GB of music from the NAS -> SSD on my laptop, so god only knows how long it would take to try and do it all this way.

If both NAS's are connected to my network at the same time, I presumed I could just go NAS -> NAS via the laptop? Though surely that would actually take longer than NAS -> Laptop as it's a fast SSD in the laptop and a slower HDD in the Synology NAS.

Is there some kind of utility I can use that would migrate data from one NAS to another without me having to have a PC running as the intermediary?

Sorry this is probably a really dumb question...
 
NAS -> NAS would be fastest if the software on both NAS' support this, check their respective product manuals / websites. Do you not have Gigabit? Transfer speeds should be dramatically faster than that...
 
What an absolute idiot I am. Although I was plugged in on ethernet for some reason it was using the WiFi :eek:

I did wonder why it took so long! I thought the NAS was on it's last legs as it's been playing up lately.

Disabled the WiFi and things are now transferring more quickly.

So I could potentially have both NAS's attached at the same time and do a direct transfer from one to another, without having to go Old NAS -> PC -> New NAS?
 
If each NAS has the ability to do so, yes :) I imagine this would be featured in their online product pages or management software :) If you can avoid the need to have a PC or Laptop in the middle then do so, because:
1. Your speeds would be NAS -> PC -> NAS (2 network transfers, 2 reads and 2 writes) ineatd of NAS -> NAS (1 network transfer, 1 read and 1 write)
2. You'd have to have said PC turned on the whole time

Probably goes without saying, but make sure you copy and don't cut, keep the original data untouched until you're certain it's transferred!
 
Redgie said:
Probably goes without saying, but make sure you copy and don't cut, keep the original data untouched until you're certain it's transferred!
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Try filecheckmd5 to check the files have transferred correctly. Takes time though!
 
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