Migrating to New NAS

[Enquiries]

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

[ed]

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/packa...nAssistant
https://kb.synology.com/en-uk/DSM/help/M...?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/tutori..._and_later

If you want to change file system and RAID type, USB copy will probably be the fastest option.


I hope this helps.