Moving from a windows server

[Zendatic]

I currently have my NAS/Plex server running on Windows, but I’m looking to switch to Hexos. Before making the switch, I’d like to confirm if installing Hexos will wipe my drives. My understanding is that only the boot drive would be affected, but I want to be sure.

Additionally, I plan to add more storage in the future. When I create a new pool, will it wipe the added drive, or is that where the 'expand' feature comes into play? Any insights would be greatly appreciated!

[Dudepher]

7 hours ago, Zendatic said:

I currently have my NAS/Plex server running on Windows, but I’m looking to switch to Hexos. Before making the switch, I’d like to confirm if installing Hexos will wipe my drives. My understanding is that only the boot drive would be affected, but I want to be sure.

Additionally, I plan to add more storage in the future. When I create a new pool, will it wipe the added drive, or is that where the 'expand' feature comes into play? Any insights would be greatly appreciated!

Your drives when building your first pool in HexOS will be wiped. They have to be to setup the new pools. 
Same applies to the expand option, or creating other pools.
 

It is highly encouraged and recommend to not use HexOS during its beta as your only means of storage or as a full roll out. You should 100% backup everything from your windows server before trying out HexOS

 

I had a similar setup using windows and then switched to HexOS. . 

[Zendatic]

9 hours ago, Dudepher said:

Your drives when building your first pool in HexOS will be wiped. They have to be to setup the new pools. 
Same applies to the expand option, or creating other pools.
 

It is highly encouraged and recommend to not use HexOS during its beta as your only means of storage or as a full roll out. You should 100% backup everything from your windows server before trying out HexOS

 

I had a similar setup using windows and then switched to HexOS. . 

Damn okay. Thanks, I was hoping that wasn't the case as I have no way to move/ back up my server. It has the most storage I own and I'm not interested in re-downloading the terabytes worth of movies. I understand having to wipe the boot drive but wiping the extra storage sucks.

[Dylan]

11 minutes ago, Zendatic said:

Damn okay. Thanks, I was hoping that wasn't the case as I have no way to move/ back up my server. It has the most storage I own and I'm not interested in re-downloading the terabytes worth of movies. I understand having to wipe the boot drive but wiping the extra storage sucks.

Could you spend  few dollars and leverage a monthly cloud plan to backup your data until you get the NAS reconfigured? Maybe something like BackBlaze?

[Dudepher]

28 minutes ago, Dylan said:

Could you spend  few dollars and leverage a monthly cloud plan to backup your data until you get the NAS reconfigured? Maybe something like BackBlaze?

This is a good solution. I would recommend waiting until the beta is over first this way you aren’t paying for longer than you need. Unless you want to try the beta. It’s just gonna eat a lot of bandwidth on your network, if you upload and download TBs of data. So depending on your provider might not make a ton of sense. 
 

I think backblaze can send you the HDD with your data on it. So if you want to upload, then have them mail the drive that could be a work around. 

44 minutes ago, Zendatic said:

Damn okay. Thanks, I was hoping that wasn't the case as I have no way to move/ back up my server. It has the most storage I own and I'm not interested in re-downloading the terabytes worth of movies. I understand having to wipe the boot drive but wiping the extra storage sucks.