How to migrate to a NEW Synology NAS (4 ways)

In this video, I will be walking through all of the ways you can migrate from one Synology to another, and showing you how to pick the best method for your situation. The methods I will be covering are: hard drive migration, migration assistant, hyperbackup and restore, and manually rebuilding.

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TOC:
00:00 Introduction
01:16 Hard drive migration
02:20 Migration assistant
07:34 Hyperbackup and restore
10:09 Manual rebuild
10:43 Flow chart walkthrough
12:48 Demo (using hard drive migration)
18:02 Conclusion

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[joshdepaz]

Finally the video I needed! From the topic expert I trust! Thank you!

[okidave]

The first scenario you mentioned is what I had to do. My DS920+ died after running continuously since I purchased it at launch, so just under 4 years. At first, I thought it was the power supply, but the unit was completely dead. I purchased a replacement DS923+ and it was great how seamless the migration process was. I just inserted my drives into the bays and booted it up. It asked if I wanted to keep my settings. After that and a reboot, I was able to login like nothing happened. For a while I was so worried about recovering my data. This time I will be purchasing the extended warranty.

[markl]

Great video, especially showing how to use Migration Assistant. I actually found your channel when looking for the best way to move a client from an old QNAP NAS to a new Synology NAS, and I followed a video about using HyperBackup to do it. It wasn't NASty. (Sorry, couldn't resist!🤣)

[raycollington]

Just what we needed here Will. Thank you.

[tjrsasea]

I am actually thinking about upgrading and how to migrate data, and here it is!!

[bwd]

Ironic. My new DS224+ is getting delivered today! Perfect timing for this video!

[waisinglee]

Wow...the first two minutes answered my question. I am going to move to a new Synology because mine (from 2012?) is no longer supported by the software. Thank you!!!

[DaystromDataConcepts]

personally, anyone with any quantity of data to transfer and is thinking of using Hyper Backup. I'd suggest using USB Copy instead as Hyper backup is incredibly slow. I've run Hyper Backups to external HDD's and seen as slow as 6Mb/sec transfer rates. USB Copy, on the other hand, was used to restore some 7Tb onto my new NAS and that was transferring at over 200Mb/sec from a fast WD Elements 14Tb external drive.

[markynio]

I never imagined I could just swap my drives to the new one. Thank you. I'm upgrading from 2-drive NAS to 4-drive this year.

[jimmybondy]

Super good video again ... it’s really fun now because you take your time to talk! And explain everything perfectly again !!

Question to the expert:

I had to remove a 12 TB from my NAS. It rattled .. now I have formatted it via adapter and connected it to the MAC. You can’t hear anything now ...

Is there a program that can test a hard drive for reliability?

And can you bring something to VPN of the NAS?

ZB Nord VPN?

Thank you

[georgesalco]

Hello, great video. One question, I'm going to replace a disk to expand storage, and I wanted to ask if it's a good time to acquire the new Synology disk (possible compatibility issues with other brands in the future) or is it better to install a 12 or 16TB Ironwolf Pro or Exos disk? DS920+. Thanks for everything!

[UpToTheSkyAgain]

Migration assistant supports migrating from btrfs HD (1st nas) to btrfs SSD (2nd nas) ?
Harddrive migration : does the order or the place of the disks in the nas matters ? Do we have to keep the same order in the new nas ?

[Zeono]

Hello, another great video. Ive learned lots from watching your videos on YouTube. Have just set up Synology photos on my DS423+ which has 6GB of Synology ram.
When I was transferring the photos and videos from my Mac, I've got them all backed up from iCloud I kept hitting a problem where my Mac mini would run out of ram and safari would have to close then reload stopping the process. After checking Activity monitor it was the Safari web page linked to synology that was consuming all the ram. I have a M1 Mac mini with 16GB of ram, eventually I had to close safari reboot my Mac and copy them over in lesser amount before the same thing happened again. Any thoughts.

[christophmeyer]

Thank you for this good video!
Is there a way to transfer photos data to a new/other Synology without losing the face-recognition data and other manually added infos?

[tkoop]

As always, a great video! But I have a question. If I want to switch to full volume encryption on the new device (this was not the case on the old device), is it possible to use the migration assistant in this case?

[IntoxicatedVortex]

A few notes… a) try be certain your RAID/SHR is in good health when doing an HDD migration (failing to put all drives in and/or putting one in backwards in the bracket happens more often than you think) and the last thing you want is your new NAS not to find at least your minimum number of drives at boot as recovering from that, or just immediately needing to rebuild a RAID/SHR set, can be really painful b) I have had HDD migrations start straight up (like it was still the old NAS) when going to the same model NAS (like with a service replacement) - for this to happen be certain you are running the latest version of DSM possible on both NAS so you should dry run your new NAS with a spare drive to do that update - I received a service replacement with DSM6.2 on it and it refuse to migrate in total c) I don't know about anyone else but I like to be giving my new drives a bit of a workout before committing all of my data to them - when going to new drives I typically take the manual route, at least initially, to be sure everything will work out first and then will maybe take another migration route as you don't want to find out something is awry in the middle of a migration d) be mindful of licenses, such as camera or MailPlus, and be ready to transition them manually if they don't come over on their own.

[rmm]

What options works if you want to move from folder encryption to volume encryption?

[JeffGiacomi]

Can I transfer drives from a DS1812+ running DSM 6.2.4 to the newest DS1821+/23XS? Will those new systems recognize the drives given they are running 6.2.4 and not 7?

[fransvanderwerf]

hi Will. great vid as always! Question - moving from a 220+ to 1522+ I encountered a 'config lost' in Syn Assistant when starting the 1522+. It's coming new from the box and no resets were done. Using compatible drives from Seagate (Ironwolf). What is causing that? Greetings

[TravisPickle]

so can the dx517 vols be transferred migrated into the 923+ for example