How to Clone Qnap System Drive

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curiosity22
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How to Clone Qnap System Drive

Post by curiosity22 »

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..
FSC830
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Re: How to Clone Qnap System Drive

Post by FSC830 »

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!
curiosity22
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Re: How to Clone Qnap System Drive

Post by curiosity22 »

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.
diwiwi
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Re: How to Clone Qnap System Drive

Post by diwiwi »

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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