Full system hardware upgrade question

[tmpalmatier]

Quick question, I'm planning a full hardware upgrade to my 2017 home server. Pretty much the only things I'm keeping are the 2 18tb drives, the PSU and maybe the GPU. looking for the simplest and safest way to accomplish this.

1. Back up the server contents on another machine, then reload?

2.  or can I just rebuild the machine without the HDD, load the software then restart with the HDD plugged in ?

Thoughts?

 

[Shane]

Hi! While you should always have a backup of your data (#obligatoryITcomment), DrivePool will automatically recognise a pool plugged in from another machine; note that your pool will retain duplication settings but not performance and balancing/placement settings, so you may wish to record the latter first.

If your old server's drivepool license is managed locally rather than through stablebit cloud then you should deactivate it before uninstalling drivepool so that you can reactivate the license on the new install without potentially needing to request support.

[Christopher (Drashna)]

another note, is that the pool will maintain the NTFS permissions from the old install, too.  If you used system specific accounts in the permissions (like "MyUser", "(name)", etc), then you may need to update/replace the permissions on the pool, once it's remounted.