October 8, 20187 yr Hi, I have an old 4.5.6 install on very noisy but 'proper' 3 disk 1U server that now needs to live beside my desk, rather than in the (distant, soundproofed) data room. It seems sensible to migrate this install to more appropriate hardware - I have various old HP Microservers lying around for example. Is it as simple as moving the drives and USB key across, or am I being optimistic? Will there be a licensing issue on this very old system (not adverse to paying - its good value!!)
October 8, 20187 yr Community Expert Are you still wanting to run 4.5.6 software? If that is the case, you have a good shot at it working. Shut the old server down, pull the USB drive, and plug it into the new hardware. Now see if it boots. (Unraid does not need any HD's to boot!). If it boots, you have a good chance it will work. Be sure you get a printout of the disk assignments as I don't believe that versions that old track disk assignments by serial number. In fact, get a printout of all your settings. What I would really suggest you do is to build a completely new system with NEW hard disks and copy the data across over the network. (If you are using the old free software from back then, you have less than 4TB of data.) That will give you a backup until you are comfortable using the new Unraid and the hardware is past the 'infant morality' stage. Quick word of caution! Parity protection is not a guarantee against data loss. You need a secondary, offsite backup to achieve that! Edited October 8, 20187 yr by Frank1940
October 8, 20187 yr Author Thanks for the info - and agree about the need for offsite. This is my 'interim' that is largely backups of a few (albeit onsite) desktops. Next step possibly an install at the end of the garden (Internet here being sub 2Mbit)
October 8, 20187 yr Just a reminder: Unraid 6 does not have a free version license anymore, you'll need to buy at least a basic license in order to run it.
October 8, 20187 yr Author Yes I saw that - I think at that point I would be off to FreeNAS - it's not worth that much to me.
October 8, 20187 yr Community Expert 4 minutes ago, nashenden said: Yes I saw that - I think at that point I would be off to FreeNAS - it's not worth that much to me. It is worth noting that if you have a paid-for license for v4 it will still be valid on v6 (and the device limits will be significantly higher).
October 8, 20187 yr 2 minutes ago, nashenden said: Yes I saw that - I think at that point I would be off to FreeNAS - it's not worth that much to me. Your choice of course, but Unraid v4 and Unraid v6 are two completely different entities. The latter one offers a lot a more out of the box. You can install Unraid v6 with a free trial license and test it out on your existing system, see if it is worthwhile (IMHO it is) before switching to freenas.
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