Long story short, I have an existing unraid server that is on its way out, so I have built an entirely new server.   I planned on moving my existing license key from the older server to the new one, then shut down the old one forever.

 

However, I understand that if I create a new USB drive with my existing key, the old server stops working?  I don't need two servers running forever, just for a few days while the data is copied over.  How can I do that?

 

I'm sure there is a simple answer, but if I break/disable the old server it will be a HUGE pain to get it working again...

 

Thanks.

Edited April 3, 20251 yr by Gannoc

Instead of copying the data you could just move the disks from the old to the new server along with the boot flash drive.

That would work in some cases, but my drives are all 7+ years old so I replaced them with newer, larger ones.  The new server can't fit all of my old and new drives at the same time.

 

In case someone searches for and finds this later, a solution suggested elsewhere is to just get a trial key for the new srever,  then after the old server is done copying, shut it down, copy the config folder (other than the key) from the new server/trial usb keychain to the old server usb key, and then that should work going forward.  The license is tied just to the physical USB drive, not to the drive+server.

 

If the current USB is still working properly, then all you'd need to do is set up the new server with a trial, copy everything over, shut both servers down, switch USB drives, and start the new server.

If you set networking to a specific MAC on the old server, you need to make sure to update that, and if you use dockers or VMs you'll probably waat to shut those down and disable autostart for them during copying so those are the same as well.