Migrating from WHS2011 to Windows 8

[brucej]

I have been using drivepool and scanner for over 3 years now with not one issue, but my hardware is getting old and I am now looking to move my 12TB pooled drive onto a windows 8 machine.

 

Can anyone advice what is the best way to go about transferring fthe pool over, can I just take the drive out of the WHS2011 and put them is the windows 8 computer and the pool will reload or do I need to copy over the files one by one and transfer drives one at a time from the WHS to the Windows 8 machine and recreate the pool. As I would like to reuse the drives I currently have in the WHS computer.

 

Thanks 

[Umfriend]

Well, Christopher will say but the idea is indeed that you would:

- Deactivate the license on WHS 2011 (and note the activation key before that I would think)

- Turn off WHS 2011 and take the pooled HDDs out

- Install and activate DP on the W8 box. Turn the W8 box off afterwards

- Install the pooled HDDs in the W8 box

- Turn on W8 box and voila, the Pool should be there.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Well, Christopher will say but the idea is indeed that you would:

- Deactivate the license on WHS 2011 (and note the activation key before that I would think)

- Turn off WHS 2011 and take the pooled HDDs out

- Install and activate DP on the W8 box. Turn the W8 box off afterwards

- Install the pooled HDDs in the W8 box

- Turn on W8 box and voila, the Pool should be there.

That's pretty much dead on, actually. 

 

One of the bigger features for StableBit DrivePool is it's resilience. If the OS dies, or is reinstalled, or you change hardware, as long as the pooled drives are intact, you just need to connect them to the new system. Once the software is installed, it will see the special layout that we use, and recreate the pool automatically. 

[Philmatic]

Yep, it really is magical.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Yep, it really is magical.

That's pretty much what we were shooting for.