you are very much on target with the M.2 / HDD configuration sequence.
If you look here, PMS now a lot faster and responsive on QNAP, as further reassurance, you can see where how to accomplish this has been covered in deeper detail. Please be mindful of the step where the HDDs are not plugged in until after QTS is up and running on the M.2s without any other HDDs installed.
Given you have both NAS boxes side by side, I would recommend a simple ethernet transfer of the content. Transferring 5GB, at full gigabit speed (100 MB sec) will require about 13 hours
I do such transfers via NFS (which is ideal for this)
# cd /tmp
# mkdir /tmp/a
# mount 192.168.0.55:/movies /tmp/a # 192.160.0.55 is the old NAS
# cd /share/CACHEDEV2_DATA/movies
# cp -rpv /tmp/a/* . # pay attention to the training period (dot) here. it's required
# umount /tmp/a
# cd /share/CACHEDEV2_DATA
This will copy the entire contents from the 212’s “movies” directories into the new “movies” directory.
I scripted this with a function instead of writing out each block of lines.
You can see I Setup-Action-Teardown each share of content.
if you will now forgive me, here’s a ‘on the fly’ script.
It presumes the share names are the same on both systems
#!/bin/sh
copyit() {
mkdir -f /tmp/a
mount "ip.addr.of.oldnas:/${1}" /tmp/a
cd "/share/CACHEDEV2_DATA/${1}"
echo Copying \"$1\"
cp -rp /tmp/a/* .
umount /tmp/a
rmdir /tmp/a
}
# Now, here in the main, we make it look really swoopy
copyit movies
copyit tv
copyit music
copyit photos
copyit archive
