How can I move the disks to another running NAS and keep the existing data?
How can I move the disks to another running NAS and keep the existing data?
Overview
After using QNAP NAS for a period of time, you may want to expand the existing storage pool and replace hard disks. When the above situation occurs and the disks in use need to be replaced, you can follow the instructions in this article to replace the disk to ensure the correctness and security of your data.
Applicable Products
All NAS series
Resolution
In short, this can be proceeded with 3 steps.
- Make sure the destination NAS is powered on and initialized with data volume.
- Hot plug in the disks without powering off the destination NAS.
- Run Scan All free disks in Storage & Snapshots
Important: The NAS may fail to fnish the boot up procedure if booting the NAS up with the disks used in the different NAS.
For example:
- 1 single disk installed in a TS-231P
- 2 disks RAID 1 installed in a TS-453B
- A newly purchased TS-872XT.
How can I move single disk from TS-231P to TS-453B to have a 2 disks RAID 1 and one single disk in TS-453B?
Initial status: TS-231P and TS-453B are powering on and running normally.
- Power down TS-231P
- Unplug the disk from TS-231P
- Log in TS-453B as administrator,and find Contrl Panel > Storage&Snapshot > Storage > Disks to monitor the disk status.
- Insert the single disk into TS-453B directly without powering off the NAS.
- After the disk has been detected, run Recover > Scan All free disks
- Press Yes when prompts ,the data volume on the single disk will be detected and press Apply.
- Once it has been restored you will get a message saying the operation has been successful.
Tip: Refer to How to safely detach and reattach Volume/Storage Pool?
How can I move all the disks to an empty TS-872XT?
Initial status: TS-231P and TS-453B are powering on and running normally and TS-872XT is shut down. The goal is to continue use the QTS sytem in TS-453B as main system in TS-872XT.
Migrate the disks from TS-453B to TS-872XT
- Power off TS-453B and move 2 disks RAID 1 to TS-872XT.
- Boot up TS-872XT and login the QTS web interface to make sure system migration successfully finished.
Tip: Refer to Direct System Migration section in I bought a new QNAP NAS. How do I move my data over from the old one?
Insert single disk into TS-872XT
- Power off TS-231P and unplug single disk
- Log in TS-872XT as administrator,and find Contrl Panel > Storage&Snapshot > Storage > Disks to monitor the disk status.
- Insert single disk into TS-872XT directly without powering off the NAS.
- Confirm the disk has been detected, find Recover > Scan All free disks
- Press Yes when prompts ,the data volume on the single disk will be detected and press Apply.
- Once it has been restored you will get a message saying the operation has been successful.
Tip: Refer to How to safely detach and reattach Volume/Storage Pool?
