Hi everyone,
I currently have the F4-210 with 4 x 8TB Seagate Iron Wolf NAS drives, formatted as ext4 and RAID 6 attached and running TOS 4.2. I recently purchased the F4-423 and it will be arriving later this week. I am going to install TOS 6 on the new device, but plan on using the 4 NAS drives I already have in the F4-210.
I am going to format the NAS drives in order to install TOS 6. I was also getting some ffprobe/ SQLlite errors that was impacting my ability to add content to Emby, so now is a good time to start fresh.
I have everything successfully backed up to 4 Seagate Barracuda Hard Drives in an External Enclosure via USB Copy. The file system for the external storage is also ext4 and all discs are healthy.
I have been reading the forums but I am absolutely paranoid that I will lose the data that I have backed up.
- Will I be able to restore the data backed up to USB Copy from TOS 4.2 when I install TOS 6 on my new device?
- Will I need to keep the NAS drives formatted as ext4, or can I format them as BTRFS?
- Are there any other considerations I should take before restoring via USB Copy?
Any help and/ or advise would be greatly appreciated.
Regards.
[Help] Upgrading NAS - Will USB Copy Work with TOS? [SOLVED]
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Re: [Help] Upgrading NAS - Will USB Copy Work with TOS?
Your idea is achievable.
TOS6 is also capable of recognizing EXT4 filesystem external enclosures via USB. You can set up a new backup task to copy back to the NAS.
Regarding what file system your NAS disk should be formatted to, BTRFS or EXT4 are both viable.
TOS6 is also capable of recognizing EXT4 filesystem external enclosures via USB. You can set up a new backup task to copy back to the NAS.
Regarding what file system your NAS disk should be formatted to, BTRFS or EXT4 are both viable.
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Re: [Help] Upgrading NAS - Will USB Copy Work with TOS?
@TMzethar - Perfect, thank you so much for your response!
I can access my USB External Storage via SMB as well, so that may be faster to copy things back to the new Terramaster. I am simply terrified to re-format the NAS drives, as I have had several experiences of losing data in the past (not Terramaster related.) I once had a guitar I had mounted to the wall fall off and land directly on my external drive I had with all my kid's baby photos. Lost everything.
I can access my USB External Storage via SMB as well, so that may be faster to copy things back to the new Terramaster. I am simply terrified to re-format the NAS drives, as I have had several experiences of losing data in the past (not Terramaster related.) I once had a guitar I had mounted to the wall fall off and land directly on my external drive I had with all my kid's baby photos. Lost everything.