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Migrating to New NAS - Enquiries - 03-26-2023
I have a DS920 and DS1515+ on my personal home network, the DS1515+ is offsite. Due do several issues with power failures (on and off switch ?). I want to migrate the existing DS1515+ data to the new DS1522+ . My question is what options do I have to avoid any preventable problems considering the fact that I’m a novice. I have approximately a total of just 1 TB of data now to transfer.
1. Backup the data from the DS920+ to the new DS1522+(with new drives). All data ( laptop, pc and ipad) was backed up to the DS1515+ when the system was set up.
2. Migrate the drives to the the new NAS and use the 920 for the off site backup.
3. Am I missing the obvious?
Any suggestions?
Many Thanks,
Wm. Long
RE: Migrating to New NAS - ed - 03-27-2023
Hello William,
Thank you for your support, this keeps us going.
There are few options to migrate your data. The easiest is to simply move drives to a new NAS. That is the simplest option. But if you have new drives, you will need to either copy data manually or use Migration Assistant app on your NAS https://www.synology.com/en-uk/dsm/packages/MigrationAssistant
https://kb.synology.com/en-uk/DSM/help/MigrationAssistant/migrationassistant?version=7
Some people prefer copying data to a USB drive and then transfer them to the new NAS (via USB again). So often USB (5Gbit/s) is faster then regular LAN (1Gbit/s). Migration Assistant is much simpler, though.
If you have data on two different NAS systems, you may as well use Hyper backup option for one of them https://kb.synology.com/en-uk/DSM/tutorial/How_to_migrate_between_Synology_NAS_DSM_6_0_and_later
If you want to change file system and RAID type, USB copy will probably be the fastest option.
I hope this helps.