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New To QNAP and Emby...Does All My Content Need Reformatting? :(


bsmith2400

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bsmith2400

I'm new to QNAP and Emby (Premiere).

 

I hope this question is ok to post in here..

 

Ive had two Drobo's go down on me over the last 5 years. One Drobo had a internal power issue and my last Drobo 5N was fried in a electrical storm (I did have professional surge protector in front of it but it was a pretty big shock). 

 

I had an extra drive and I was able to reformatted and install Emby with new volumes and all is GOOD thx to this forum... 

 

I have 4 drive's older Drobo drives (with 5 years of content) left over with no Idrive or Crash Plane...

 

Do all my old Drobo HD have to be reformatted?

 

If so is there a way that I can keep my 5 years of content?

 

Thanks for any help...

 

Brandon

Houston, Tx 

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PenkethBoy

If i understand what you're asking

 

Any drive you install into a qnap/synology as a "new" drive will be wiped and reformated to the supported format - it will warn you first

 

so if you are thinking of using old drobo drives in a qnap backup your data first

 

If you have the budget - i would get new drives rather than use 5 year old (slow and end of life) drives

 

For questions like these the qnap forum would be a better place to ask - "forum.qnap.com"

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bsmith2400

@PenkethBoy, Ok thanks for the formatting heads up... How do I back up my old drives? Both my older Drobo's don't power on? I only have the older drives in hand.

 

Thanks,

Brandon

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PenkethBoy

If the disks are single volumes you need to connect them to a pc as you would with any HDD - and hope the data is readable - as a drobo may have a specific format (dont know never used one)

 

then copy off your data

 

if the disks were part of a raid array then thats another ball of wax

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bsmith2400

Yeah, I'm afraid they may only be formatted for Drobo. My only choice would be to find anther Drobo. I'm going to call Drobo today to see if their formatting is the same for all their NAS. 

 

@PenkethBoy...If QNAP requires a new format for all new desk what are my backup options going forward for QNAP?

 

Thanks for all your help.

Brandon

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PenkethBoy

the format of the drives on a qnap does not matter as you dont backup disks directly

 

you backup to another device/cloud

 

so qnap to pc or qnap to qnap or qnap to external disk or qnap to cloud provider etc etc

 

Nothing fancy here its just basic backup strategy - go to the qnap forums as i suggested and read up - lots of useful info there - then ask questions on things you dont get

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