Hey G'day folks,
I'm a 66 year old dinosaur, I have a ts451 fully populated with drives.
My system drive on the Qnap is 2tb it needs to be upgraded.
I have attached a new 4tb drive via usb.
I want to Clone system to new drive.
In simple words so an old as dirt type person like me HOW do I go about it.
Windows easy, get software clone x to x and away we go.
What am I missing, I can do snapshots I can do backups but but but I just dinnaknowhowtomanipulatetheSOB to do a clone .
Much appreciate any advice..
How to Clone Qnap System Drive
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Re: How to Clone Qnap System Drive
How are the disks configured?
Are you using a raid or is each disk configured as single disk?
And to be honest: there is no way to clone an internal disk. All who tried this, have been failing so far.
At old NAS with legacy firmware there was a painful way to clone a disk and use more capacity afterwards. But in newer NAS with HAL firmware (as yours) I have never ever seen someone succeeding in doing so.
Regards
Edit: In case of a raid (except raid0) no need to clone any disk. Just replace disks each-after-each, always waiting until rebuild is done, then you can expand capacity.
As usual: backups are mandatory!
Are you using a raid or is each disk configured as single disk?
And to be honest: there is no way to clone an internal disk. All who tried this, have been failing so far.
At old NAS with legacy firmware there was a painful way to clone a disk and use more capacity afterwards. But in newer NAS with HAL firmware (as yours) I have never ever seen someone succeeding in doing so.
Regards
Edit: In case of a raid (except raid0) no need to clone any disk. Just replace disks each-after-each, always waiting until rebuild is done, then you can expand capacity.
As usual: backups are mandatory!
A raid is never a substitute for backup! Never!
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Re: How to Clone Qnap System Drive
Ohhh you would be the bearer of bad tidings lol... Disks are configured as individual not part of a raid. System drive is thick.. running qts 5.0.1.2346..
Its amazing the time I've wasted trying to do this I may just as well have reinstalled everything I had and would have been done and in bed by now.
Thank you for taking the time to reply its much appreciated.
I guess I can't really complain too much, the old drive has been running I think now over 5 years and its time to go to the glue farm.
Its amazing the time I've wasted trying to do this I may just as well have reinstalled everything I had and would have been done and in bed by now.
Thank you for taking the time to reply its much appreciated.
I guess I can't really complain too much, the old drive has been running I think now over 5 years and its time to go to the glue farm.
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Re: How to Clone Qnap System Drive
There is no System drive.
There is a System Volume, where apps and default shared folders are installed.
The OS/config is installed on all drives.
You can simply backup data from that volume to the others, then remove the volume, reboot the NAS, insert new drive and recreate a new volume.
The System Volume will the move to the second volume.
However, some apps will have to be reinstalled. And app data may be lost.
https://www.qnap.com/en/how-to/faq/arti ... poolvolume
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There is a System Volume, where apps and default shared folders are installed.
The OS/config is installed on all drives.
You can simply backup data from that volume to the others, then remove the volume, reboot the NAS, insert new drive and recreate a new volume.
The System Volume will the move to the second volume.
However, some apps will have to be reinstalled. And app data may be lost.
https://www.qnap.com/en/how-to/faq/arti ... poolvolume
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