Hi Guys,
I have a Mac mini server, with a thunderbolt storage drive directly connected to it.
This drive contains approx 2.5 Tb of data, and is mounted to the mini as a share.
This share is live data, that’s accessed most of the time.
I plan to copy this data to an external USB HD and then plug that into the new NAS.
Then I’ll copy the USB HD content to the NAS using USB Copy, in it’s “mirror copy" mode.
Then, over the weekend before we move to the new NAS permanently, I want to run another copy from the mac attached storage to the USB drive. Then I want to plug the USB into the NAS again and simply mirror any changes to the new Synology NAS.
I’ve read about the fact that USB Copy will do this task, but then other users say that it misses out files sometimes during the second mirror copy.
Some other posts suggest that the second mirror copy with USB Copy doesn’t just copy the changed files but actually copies all the files again!
This is all worrying me.
Can anyone put my mind at rest about using the planned method please?
I also have a couple of Buffalo Terastation NAS's on the network - each of these has approx 5 Tb of data.
We want to move all this data to the new NAS too.
I’m going to copy from each of the terastations to the external USB drive in turn, and then copy all that data to the new Synology as well.
The idea of (using USB Copy again from the USB HD) to get this data into the NAS is also planned for this data transfer.
This data isn’t “live” or regularly used data, so one copy will be sufficient.
So as you can see, lots of data to move, and I’m now becoming a bit concerned about the USB Copy package being the correct way to go.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
thanks.
I have a Mac mini server, with a thunderbolt storage drive directly connected to it.
This drive contains approx 2.5 Tb of data, and is mounted to the mini as a share.
This share is live data, that’s accessed most of the time.
I plan to copy this data to an external USB HD and then plug that into the new NAS.
Then I’ll copy the USB HD content to the NAS using USB Copy, in it’s “mirror copy" mode.
Then, over the weekend before we move to the new NAS permanently, I want to run another copy from the mac attached storage to the USB drive. Then I want to plug the USB into the NAS again and simply mirror any changes to the new Synology NAS.
I’ve read about the fact that USB Copy will do this task, but then other users say that it misses out files sometimes during the second mirror copy.
Some other posts suggest that the second mirror copy with USB Copy doesn’t just copy the changed files but actually copies all the files again!
This is all worrying me.
Can anyone put my mind at rest about using the planned method please?
I also have a couple of Buffalo Terastation NAS's on the network - each of these has approx 5 Tb of data.
We want to move all this data to the new NAS too.
I’m going to copy from each of the terastations to the external USB drive in turn, and then copy all that data to the new Synology as well.
The idea of (using USB Copy again from the USB HD) to get this data into the NAS is also planned for this data transfer.
This data isn’t “live” or regularly used data, so one copy will be sufficient.
So as you can see, lots of data to move, and I’m now becoming a bit concerned about the USB Copy package being the correct way to go.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
thanks.