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Can someone tell me the simplest way to do this without losing any data. The old one is fully functional but bought a new one and I want the new one at home and the old one at my office. From what I understand, I can't just pop in the drives on the new one.
Is this possible?
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Yes you can, I have done it with no problem. The key is to pop the drives in in the exact same order without having started the new one before with drives in it. This is also assuming that the F/W is the same (different F/W store the config files in different locations). You can also start it up with no drives in it and change the F/W to match the old one, but I think this only works for F/W 1.03 and up. Anyway, give it a try, if you get the prompt to format, just hit cancel and don't format it.
If this does not work (it prompts for format), the thing I would do is to manually set up the new DNS. The following are the steps in general. I can provide more specifics, but it can get tricky. I have a script around somewhere that does this automatically. Let me know if you need this.
1) make sure ffp is on drive 0 (HD_a)
2) start up the unit and telnet in
3) mount flash (2 instances)
4) copy raidtab, raidtab2web, and hd_magic_num from HD to flash
5) edit hd_magic_num in flash to include drive serial numbers
6) unmount flash
7) reboot
Last edited by bq041 (2008-07-30 02:14:06)
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I would make sure firmware revisions are the same, then I would backup the config from my old DNS-323, then in the web config go to, Tools, System, Configuration Settings and backup your required settings. Restore these settings to the new DNS-323, reboot it and put the disks in the DNS-323 in same slots thay came out of.
I have done this having had my original DNS-323 repaired.
hope this helps.
Last edited by index monkey (2008-07-30 20:46:41)
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