updating iMac,what happens with Synology NAS ?

[paulcliman]

A fairly recent beginner to Synology NAS
I wanrt to upgrade my iMac to a new model - what happens to my NAS ?
Do I have to back everthing up and start from scratch; I understand, I think it will retain all my files, but I also have Hyper backup and what wouls happen to Synology Drive ?
Sorry if this is simple stuff but I am unsure how to proceed
Thanks in advance for any simple English advice

 

[fredbert]

Welcome to the forum.

Hyper Backup is for backing up the NAS to another storage device, nothing to do with backing up the Mac. I would pause the Synology Drive tasks in the old Mac's Drive agent. Then use Mac's Migration Assistant (find it in /Applications/Utilities) to migrate the old to new Mac. The new Mac should be recognised on the network as a different device to the old Mac.

 

[paulcliman]

Many thanks for your swift reply, much appreciated.
I would REALLY like to do a complete clean installation of the new machine; would that complicate matters ?
Paul (France)

 

[fredbert]

I would REALLY like to do a complete clean installation of the new machine; would that complicate matters ?

Not really. Once you have the basic Mac setup completed you can install the Mac Drive agent. Then create two-way sync tasks and your files will become available on the new Mac. In your Drive agent, on both Macs, I would make the General settings to be that when [re-]linking to the NAS then the NAS content is considered to be true view of the files...

What you're proposing isn't really replacing a Mac but more like adding one, like I have a Mac Mini and Macbook Air that access my Drive content. Both these have backup tasks in Drive agent that upload one-way some of my local Mac files: which I could manually access and copy to the other Mac.