neo Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 Can anyone recommend some software to clone 2 x 2tb n.a.s drives in raid 0 ext3 format to 2 x 2tb drives (different brands to the ones that have the data) both are sata II/III??? reason being the ones i have are starting to get noisy so thought it best to back them up before the worst happens. thanks in advance for any recommendations Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnH Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 As raid 0 is striping you won't be able to swap a single disk, maybe you should consider upgrading the NAS at the same time as they're fairly cheap these days. At least then you can use the old NAS as a backup to your raid 0 solution as if you lose 1 disk you'll lose the data on both. Another alternative would be a 4GB+ USB hdd and then sell it afterwards. On a side note, if you often remove large files (movies etc) I'd strongly suggest switching to ext4 while you're at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted June 29, 2013 Author Share Posted June 29, 2013 Thanks for the reply. Yeah replacing both drives, cloning one drive at the moment, gonna take about 9hrs, using some free software from easeUS, have used their partition programs before which work great hopefully this should do the trick :-) If the cloning fails then i`ll look into another nas enclosure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartynB85 Posted June 29, 2013 Share Posted June 29, 2013 You should be able to clone them no problem. I usually use clonezilla to do stuff like this, should work for you too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted June 30, 2013 Author Share Posted June 30, 2013 Well 22 hrs of cloning both drives and the new drives aren't recognised in the nas even tho it says i only have 20% left will look for another nas soon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartynB85 Posted June 30, 2013 Share Posted June 30, 2013 Was that with easeus? What your trying to do definitely possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted July 1, 2013 Author Share Posted July 1, 2013 Yeah, that was with easeus, when i started the cloning process it did say the drives were a 'unknown' format, should have realised from the start it might not work had a very quick look at clonezilla, looks a little complicated from the screenshots tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubapics Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Did you try a sector by sector clone/backup/restore? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartynB85 Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 Did you try a sector by sector clone/backup/restore? That i was clonezilla will do It might look a little complicated but it is fairly straight forward to use. What NAS is it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted July 1, 2013 Author Share Posted July 1, 2013 did a sector by sector clone. the nas is oldish Zyxel nsa221 a bit slow but does the job lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubapics Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 I'm now considering switching to nas4free - a free software based NAS. Build my own, not tied to any specific vendor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartynB85 Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 I'm now considering switching to nas4free - a free software based NAS. Build my own, not tied to any specific vendor. That's exactly what i will be doing, as we've got quite a few old pc's knocking about at work. The only thing i'll have to buy is a raid card, unless i can salvage one from an old server, hope to use 5-6 hard disks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scubapics Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 The whole point of software RAID with nas4free is not to use a raid card surely? As long as your motherboard has enough Sata ports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ekona Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 I use UnRAID. Incredibly simple (as in even I can use it) but quite powerful (as in others far more knowledgeable than me use it!) bit of software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MartynB85 Posted July 1, 2013 Share Posted July 1, 2013 The whole point of software RAID with nas4free is not to use a raid card surely? As long as your motherboard has enough Sata ports. It is, but the machine i'm planning on using has only 2 sata ports, I'll 'borrow' a raid card from work I could get a sata controller i guess but that isn't something i will be able to 'borrow'....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neo Posted July 11, 2013 Author Share Posted July 11, 2013 Just a small update - copied all the data to some spare HD's, got a new NAS, a zxyel nsa325, a updated and much faster version of my current NAS, did google a few different makes n models and this seemed be the best bang for me buck at £70 inc deilvery currently copying the data back, 10 connections at around 4mb each. thanks again for replies and help Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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