Hello. Still a noob, please have mercy!

I'm actually running Unraid 7.0.0 without any hard drives on it. I mainly use it to run several docker containers such as Plex, arr suite and downloaders. Appdata folder is stored entirely on my SSD pool, which has suddenly become a little too small to handle everything.

I'd love to install another bigger SSD. Problem is, I'm using a N100 portable PC that only has a single m.2 slot, so I can't run both the old and the new SSD to move files from one to the other.

 

I'm already using the Appdata backup plugin.

 

I was wondering what the procedures are to swap SSDs in the least painful way possible. Should I just backup everything using the Appdata plugin, swap the SSD and then restoring the backup? Will I lose docker configurations, plugins, user scripts or settings, or are they stored in the USB Flash Drive? Am I missing something I might want to backup from my Pool?

 

Thanks in advance for your answers!

Unassigned Devices plugin will let you copy to/from external USB storage. 

2 minutes ago, trurl said:

Unassigned Devices plugin will let you copy to/from external USB storage. 

Thanks for your help! So you're suggesting to first run the new SSD from an external USB m.2 drive enclosure, copy everything on it, then swapping the SSDs, am I right?

Might be more reliable to copy to something else, install the new SSD, then copy back. A drive taken from a USB enclosure then installed in Unraid might have to be formatted in Unraid before it can be used.

 

6 hours ago, trurl said:

A drive taken from a USB enclosure then installed in Unraid might have to be formatted in Unraid before it can be used.

Fair point, haven't thought of that! I was reading other posts on how to do this drive copy, looks like I'll use unassigned devices plugin, plus another backup utility like rsync or kommander. I'll stop docker and vm before doing anything. Thank you for your support!

Dynamix File Manager, built-in to V7, can work with Unassigned Devices.