Hi Guys

I have a gen 8 microserver with Xeon e3 1220L v2 CPU, 8gig of ram, and 3 x 3tb wd reds and one x 2tb Seagate Nas drive currently running Xpenology.

I want to convert this to Unraid 6, so purchased an extra 3tb WD red. I have taken all my data drives out of server and loaded unraid on flash drive and unused 3TB red - all good so far.

My idea was that I could port over my data one by one using my USB 3.0 caddy to the USB 3.0 on the microserver and the last one would be spare and could be the Parity - but seems I got this wrong?

Can anybody please advise me of my best option to get this data from old system to new system one drive at a time- please bare in mind I am a total newb and cannot I got this far without getting stuck.

Many thanks

K

The description of your approach sounds like it should work ok, so where are you getting stuck?

 

You might find the unassigned devices plugin to help with making the USB drive visible in unRAID.

I am not sure where you are "stuck" here either, perhaps you can elaborate? Where is your data? Is it on the Microserver or on the Seagate? Or both?

 

Given that you are going to have to clear the drives that are going in your unRAID setup prior to deploying I would recommend having a FULL backup of your data prior to any migration. Your data is what is important here (assuming you think so). Make sure it is safe first, then build your unRAID box, then transfer your data. That will make life much less stressful and much more pain free if something does go wrong.

 

Then, once you are ready there is plenty of information on this forum and plenty of people here to help to get your unRAID setup right before you transfer your data. Big benefit also, you can learn, play and tinker with the setup to your hearts content as you know your data is backed up and safe.

Hi

Thank you both for your prompt replies. (no thanks button on this forum?). Sorry I was not clear in my first post.

I only have one spare clean wd 3tb red - with is now in the microserver, which is now running UNRAID (albeit trial version for now).

the other four drives are taken from server (in Xpenology format) and I was to put them in my USB 3.0 caddy and plug it into micro server and copy them over one at a time and as as each drive is copied then add the one from the caddy to the array to be formatted.

 

Where I got stuck:

plugged in the USB 3 caddy to microserver usb3 port and couldnt see anywhere in UNRAID where it could see this disk to copy the files to the 3tb WD (empty) already in Microserver.

Sorry if I am being thick but I am totally new to this.

  I have used the plugin that Itimpi kindly pointed me to and I can see it but not sure where to go from there.

K

Fair enough, if thats all you need to know. itimpi's post above is what you are after....

 

You might find the unassigned devices plugin to help with making the USB drive visible in unRAID.

 

Read the documentation. Install the plugin. Plugin your USB drive. Then you can mount it in the GUI and start copying files via MC on the command line of using just the cp command.

 

Alternatively you could do this over the network. Plug the USB caddy into a a Win/Nix/OSX machine and access the unRAID share and just copy. If you want verification there are tools to aid you in this too (e.g. Terra copy in Windows).

Another option is to install the Dolphin docker which gives a browser based method of doing file copies.

Hi Itimpi

thank you so much for your sterling help, it seems the learning curve is to steep for me. I failed to even get Dolphin running in Docker, I am no further forward really than I was six hours ago despite your guys help.

  I dont like Xpenology much but my media server runs and I know how to manage it, if my ability level is such that I cannot even send files over or run a docker then perhaps this is a sign.

Thanks again guys

K

 

P.S. thanks to Lime-tech for trial version, at least no money lost.