some months ago I migrated PMS from a PC installation to a QNAP NAS. I installed PMS on the NAS, copied the files to the NAS volume, stopped PMS on both, copied the PMS-Database-Files like described many times - and after starting the PMS on the NAS and changing the folders to the NAS path, everything worked fine.
Now I want to move to a Synology DS1520+ but this time no RAID but 5 harddrives as just basic drives without any RAID or 1-volume-JBOD, just single drives. The reason is that the hdds are old, I want to backup everything and exchange and copy back if a drive dies. I fear that a RAID rebuild may stress and kill the other drives.
Will this make the migration process impossible? Or will PMS find the files, when I add all volumes? It’s my whole DVD collection with several thousand files and I would not like to rescan everything.
Or would it be only possible with editing the database manually?
You can’t move drives from QNAP → Synology without them being both repartitioned and reformatted. All data on any drives you plug into the Syno WILL BE ERASED.
If you’ve got old drives and are worried about them failing – STOP.
You should do this correctly from the beginning with NAS drives and, given you’re worried about failure, NEW NAS-rated drives.
Once you have a new volume, with new drives, on the Syno, Moving the data from the existing QNAP over the network will be the easy part. It will take time but it will work.
(I built a new NAS and copied 45TB from old QNAP → new NAS over the LAN. It took almost a full day at 10 Gbit.)
Maybe I didn’t express well what I meant. I don’t plan to move the drives 1:1 from QNAP to Synology NAS. For sure I have a backup of the files and will copy them to the new NAS.
And I’m not worried about the drives failing soon, but one day in the future. Most of the time, no new stuff is written, as the files stay the same. But IF one drive fails, I don’t want to stress the other drives with the reconstruction of the RAID, but just replace the drive and copy the backup.
For that reason I plan to make individual drives, in order to let the failure of one drive not harm the whole volume (if set up as one volume).
And THIS is my main question: Will it be possible in this constellation (same movie files, same directory names, but spread about 4-5 different independend volumes) to migrate the PMS including database?
Will PMS find the files (like it did work when I moved a 1-volume to 1-volume collection from PC to NAS) when I copy the database and set the volumes - THOUGH they are not in one volume?
And if not will it be possible to somehow adapt the different paths manually in the database?
