Using existing drives in a new machine

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janwillem90
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Using existing drives in a new machine

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I just purchased a new F4-210 as my previous one had a broken drive slot.
Because of the broken drive slot, I was only using 3 out of 4 drives.
Now I have the new machine, I would like to utilize all 4 disks.
What I'm hoping to do is add the 3 existing drives to the new machine along with an empty 4th drive.
I want to use this in the JBOD configuration and combine all 4 together as one big storage pool.
However, I'm extremely worried about accidentally losing data on the existing 3 disks, so how do I go about this process?
I would really appreciate someone helping me with this!

Thanks so much in advance.
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Re: Using existing drives in a new machine

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Your current RAID settings does not support online migration. You have to back up your data, delete your current volume and RAID and rebuild it to another RAID with your 4 drives.
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Re: Using existing drives in a new machine

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Thank you for the response, I will try and back all my files up.
Like I said, I had 3 drives (2x10tb and 1x12 tb)
Funny enough, I have just over under 12tb of data on these 3 drives, so I'm hoping to use my 4th disk for now, as I have no other means to store 12tb of data!
Would it be possible to connect my old F4-210 and back up all the data between two devices?
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sure, you can. Rsync backup is a better option for backup between two TNASs.
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Re: Using existing drives in a new machine

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Thanks for the suggestion.
I have never used Rsync before, is there a quick guide that explains how to set it up?
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Re: Using existing drives in a new machine

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it is simple. just enable Rsync server on one of your TNAS(the backup destination), and create Rsync backup task on another TNAS(backup source), just follow the menu, fill in the necessary items.
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