Transferring disks from an OpenmediaVault Nas

[Bowlsys (Tony Stephens)]

I am currently running OMV Version5 where I have a number of external USB drives. Can I move these to my new RockSTOR server without losing the data. I am a noob to RockSTor so if it is possible could you please tell me how to do it.

Thanks

[Hooverdan (Dan W.)]

Welcome @Bowlsys to the Rockstor community forums. Quick question, do you want to keep the external USB drives, or are you asking about moving the data from the USB drives to the Rockstor array? If it is the latter, then you can look at some other forum entries like here:

Copy from usb to share via terminal

Hi together, my name is Christian and I’m changing from OMV to Rockstor. Before I buy an license, I want to fix my problem: the installation was fine, but I have following problem: How can I copy my Files from my external hdd (connected by usb) to may share in the terminal? If I plug in the usb device, it will be shown with command “lsblk”. Is the device mounted automatically and in case of yes, where is it mounted? thanks a lot for your help? Christian

If it is the former, then by mounting the external drives (especially if they’re formatted in ext4 or something) you will have access to them, however that would probably defeat the purpose of moving to a system designed using the btrfs filesystem).

If you want to do more searches, you can do that from the top of the site page. In case you can’t see the search symbol (a little faint, and @phillxnet will eventually get to it with everything else on his plate), it’s located here:

[Bowlsys (Tony Stephens)]

Many thanks for the suggestion but it didn’t work.
I bit the bullet and did a clean install erasing all the disks and copied the contents again.

Regards