July 5, 20251 yr I'm in process of purchasing and building a new server. It will of course have more and larger drives. What I would like to do is build it set it up and then copy over all the data. My question is can I do this and then afterwards movie unread flash drive over. Once I do this will it be pretty much set up or what other steps would I need to do?
July 5, 20251 yr How are you going to format the new drives and what OS will you run before you move the USB drive over?
July 5, 20251 yr Community Expert 8 minutes ago, ap90033 said:I'm in process of purchasing and building a new server. It will of course have more and larger drives. What I would like to do is build it set it up and then copy over all the data. My question is can I do this and then afterwards movie unread flash drive over. Once I do this will it be pretty much set up or what other steps would I need to do?yes you can copy the config folder of the previous unraid flash drive.some caveots is that the disk setup onthe olde system is set int eh config. (so go to disk settings and turn off auto start array) as a new config will need to be run...Since teh key file was copied to a new system. be sure to NOT DELTE A key if you made a working unraid usb already. and to remove teh *.key files form the folder copy form the old unraid to the new unraid..when unraid is booted the flash drive is at /bootther are alos plugins such as unraid replication Which I wold recomend you use and look into. including the appdata backup plugin to make a backup adn restore / copy to your new disk setup.
July 6, 2025Jul 6 Community Expert You can use a new flash drive with a trial key, then once all the data is copied and the server configured, just transfer the license.
July 9, 2025Jul 9 Author Thanks guys. I think this helps a little bit. I'm guessing once I get the new server up and running configure the zFS pools and set it up with everything the other server had. Then move the USB drive over
July 17, 2025Jul 17 Author I think what I'm going to do is move everything over to the new server and expand one of the ZFS pools to 12 drives red Z2 14 terabyte each. Then move everything over to that one pool
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