Synology NAS upgrade

General Discussions Hardware
21

There is another way of moving from NAS → NAS.

(( This is entirely your discretion ))

Some folks like to take the entire NAS (All the hard drives), AS - IS, from the old machine directly to the new machine

The Synology Migration Assistant, as I’ve used it,

  1. Shutdown the old NAS
  2. Move the drives to the new NAS
  3. Start up the new NAS
  4. Wait for the LED to blink (it won’t turn solid blue yet)
  5. Open Synology Migration Assistant
  6. Have it search the LAN and find the new NAS
  7. It will find the new NAS, ‘ready to migrate’ (or similar words)
  8. It will then offer to install the correct DSM version on the new NAS
    – have no fear, it will not erase your data.
    – You will need to reinstall your apps (but the data is still there)
  9. When complete, Reboot it one last time

As part of that process, when moving from a DSM 6 machine to a new machine, it will use DSM 7.

Package Center will offer to “Repair” PMS. SKIP that. It’ll only make a mess if you let it try on its own.

When you’re done, you’ll have everything on the new NAS just as it was before.
It will have taken the place of the old NAS.

We have the steps documented (with screenshots) in the Syno FAQ “How-To”.

Does this make sense ? Did I overstate ?

22

For that direct drive swap to work would a 4 bay be more suitable? I was planning on keeping it to 2 bays. There’s 3 ways to migrate right? Migration Assistant, HDD migration (as you mentioned) and Hyper Backup. Would the results from all 3 have the same ending? Or would the HDD migration be best?

23

This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.