How to Migrate Unraid from One Server to Another

[@dabbihelga]

This is by far the best tutorials channel I have come accross covering unRAID and so much more, I have learned alot over the lost couple of days even though I have been working 17 years in IT (VMware, Microsoft Nutanix, hardware and more). Bravo!

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Thankyou Davíð I am glad you like the channel. And many thanks for watching :)

[@greatestguru9635]

Wow just searched the forums for this. You always come in clutch.

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Hey Greatest Guru. Glad I could help :)

[@glonch]

Awesome job on the video... Just did a move from one server to another - AMD to AMD but changed the processor (3600x to 3900x), motherboard, and added two HBAs... If it wasn't for 6.8.x w/nVidia build going EoL from the author of the 'plugin' and having to upgrade to 6.9.0-rc1, it was extremely smooth... unRaid saw all of the array drives even with the completely different SATA controllers. Outside of the nVidia issue, everything worked out of the gate. Just amazingly easy to do. Bravo unRaid!

[@johnherbert3081]

Best UNRAID channel period. Super timely; performing migration next week and was seeking this exact information.

[@Cloud00]

Man, I literally google "X Unraid Question" - Spaceinvader video pops up and exactly what I need. Thanks for making all the great content

[@AbsTheUploader]

I can't think of a better way to spend my Saturday night

[@maxderdax6117]

Best tutorials on KZbin seriously. Upgraded my System to a 11th gen Quicksync setup. Answered all my questions thanks

[@KS-wr8ub]

Great tutorial as always mate! I’ve been running my unRAID server on a HP N40L microserver since like 2011/2012. Great little server rocking 6x3.5” HDDs and 1x2.5” SATA SSD in a very small form factor. Been serving me well for a decade now, but it is getting tired. Now I’m transferring to a new Intel i5-11500 and building in a much larger case to be able to add more drives. So this video is much appreciated, thanks!

[@sixtyfps]

Similar N40L here, mine only has room for 5 3.5s internal after modding. This vid has me thinking a bit bigger. Will have to look over what can be done with dockers as I haven't looked much past KODI filehosting and eventually RetroNAS since I put it together maybe 7 years ago. Actually just now going through the phenomenally time-consuming process of shrinking/growing the array to finally switch over from reiserfs 😮‍💨 thanks to Dan's brilliant tutorials 🙏 Sorry to hear about the flooding you've been dealing with lately, Dan 😔

[@alanbailey5590]

These videos are an excellent resource. I've learnt far more here than I ever could have done from the mess that is supposed to be the official documentation.

[@Bacender]

Great video for newbies, i actually did this about 6 months ago and didn't even think about problems i might run into, all i did was move my hdd's, cache drives, plug in the flash drive, and i was up and running as normal. I went from an old Xeon machine to a Ryzen 3600x with basically zero configuration, as soon as i booted up Unraid showed that the configuration was valid and it started right up.

[@Nemesislh]

Just built my first unraid server so I don't expect to migrate soon but your videos are awesome. Keep up the good work man!

[@DiegoSpinola]

Spaceinvader one... You seem to predict exactly when I'm going to need the topic covered in a video's release... Geez the synchronicity is amazing... From vbios conversion (header hack) to this one today...

[@DiegoSpinola]

The last few parts for a total overhaul of my NAS arrived this Friday

[@AkelyHQ]

I just followed this guide to the best of my abilities. And it worked like a charm. Thanks so much! Your help was, and will be most needed and welcome. Incidentally I too upgraded from a HP Microserver Gen8, to much more modern hardware. Again, thanks. You're a champ!

[@whopua]

I migrated to a new server and assigned the new server the IP my old server had. I cannot access any of my dockers from the net like nextcloud but on my LAN everything is fine. Do you have any ideas?

[@AkelyHQ]

@@whopua I have no thoughts at all on that. I do not do remote access myself so my experience with it is zero. Best of luck!

[@havisparco]

Thanks for this tutorial. As a follow up, i think it would be awesome to see you migrate from non hba controller to hba, as it messes up the serial numbers, possibly partitions etc. I think this is a real issue many people would face when migrating.

[@Elmojomo]

Man, I would really like to know the answer to this, since I'm about to face the exact opposite situation. My current server has an HBA, but my new server has a RAID controller. I'm wondering what sort of hurt I'm about to experience when I attempt to migrate?

[@havisparco]

@@Elmojomo can you put the raid card into hba mode? that might help - pure speculation though, server hardware is not my strong suite, im a consumer pleb

[@Elmojomo]

@@havisparco I may be able to. I plan to check into that once I'm ready to migrate.

[@dwinterx]

Brilliant video as ever, I'm amazed how easy it was to migrate my server to different hardware. Thanks!

[@JeffHettinger34]

Wow, perfect timeing! I am currently piecing parts together right now for a new server to build in the next month and started looking for these instructions last night. Thanks so much!!!!

[@rallygallery]

Great video Ed. Also looking forward to the Cloudflare series continuing also. Got a domain waiting for your videos 😀

[@nucphyschem1]

Thank you for this! I am looking at building a new unraid box and this answered so many questions for me!!!

[@TomFoolery9001]

Great video! It's nice to know when the time comes I can move to new hardware without starting over.

[@clnt8]

Fantastic tutorial and answered all the questions I had for the hardware change I am going to do tonight, and uploaded 3 weeks ago how convienient :D Keep up the great work, thank you!

[@TheGodCraftMaster]

Awesome! I have been planning on doing this with my server in about half a year or a year from now, so I been researching ideas, best practices, and stuff in preparation. It will be good to be able to come back to this video for reference once I finally have the hardware to make the switch

[@jspikeball123]

working on doing exactly this. thanks for the video

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Great i hope this video helps. Best of luck and thanks for watching :)

[@hawks5196]

I recently just upgraded my cpu, motherboard and ram. I started with a 4 core cpu and 8gb of ram which just wasn’t enough for VM’s. I plugged everything in to the new motherboard, cpu with 12 threads and 64gb ecc ram and it just worked and everything started up as if nothing had changed! Unraid is awesome

[@billmarty00001]

Thanks Ed. Pete from California here. May have to do that sooner rather than later.

[@scotthoffman8682]

Dang Nab It Ed! I have been trying to figure out why my Beast keeps freezing periodically and here you mention a fix, offhand like ... Man, I hope that zenstate thing solves my problem. Either way, thanks again for the great education! Bump on the VM backup! Also a update on a gaming/content creation VM-passthrough with the new Nvidia plugin!

[@glasshalfempty1984]

7:32 you didn't explain how to save these settings. To those wondering about this, nano is a linux text editor and you're basically opening up a text file to...well edit it. After you add the line to enable zenstates, you need to press control+O and then hit the enter key. You can then hit ctrl+x to exit nano, and if you wanto to make sure it stuck, open the go file right back up. Once you've verified it's in there, you can safely close the terminal window.

[@MostlyDrew]

Did not work. Is this only for windows? Edit: Didn't need to hit control+0, only needed to hit control+X to exit then save the file.

[@sunbl0ck]

Thank you man, I love you. I was scared of migrating.

[@magicmanj32]

You make it look so easy Ed, great video

[@Zzonkers]

Thanks for this! Upgrading from OLD hardware to not as old hardware lol.

[@sida4351]

long life for HP gen8 ! I love that micro server :x

[@EvadingFate]

Thank you for your time making these videos.

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

My pleasure! Thanks for watching :)

[@wobblish]

Perfect, I'm just about to do exactly this. I also turned autostart off so I can check thing's before I start the array. I think you did a video on migrating Plex over, that's my next job. Many many thanks.

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Good luck with the new build:)

[@wobblish]

@@SpaceinvaderOne New build done, moved all the drives and USB key successfully. Am just about to upgrade my cache - following another video of yours. Thanks again.

[@JamieStuff]

One minor nitpick: Drive order DOES matter if you are running dual parity. However, if you add that new NVMe drive to the array, it's gotta rebuild parity anyway...

[@pipsqueak2009]

Very useful guide. Thank you!

[@garettgreekas7084]

Great to know! We always upgrade!

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Yes we do :)

[@brianrichmond6197]

As always this was really a much needed video. Thank you for making it. I think might have missed the very last step. How to undo changes to unraid system device if you can't boot back into unraid ? Can you edit to USB to change the setting or is it something that can be changed in ssh ?

[@amitgir]

Perfect timing. Thanks.

[@jtj11251994]

That zenstates command is a lifesaver, I was wondering why my system had been freezing lately. Is this a recent issue? I didn't notice it before 6.9.X

[@elterminatore]

Zenstate freezes have been an issue as long as the first generation Zen CPUs have been working in unraid systems. There have been several hacky fixes in the beginning and this one is new for me too. I'll give it a try...

[@berndnetz9295]

I really enjoy watching your videos. Now this time it is even more easy to understand because the music level is reduced. In your older videos it was very annoying that your comments were "disturbed" by music. Please continue and stop any music or set it to a very low level during the explanations. Second, please add links to the next video in the attachment of the former. This would help to find the next and have a help to follow up. Third, could you please add a comment at your older videos if they are no more valid because of the 6.9.X update? I am often confused when I find one and look at it and after minutes I find out that you have explained an old Unraid version which I have never seen. Or you could remove retired videos.

[@FenirXIII]

One thing you might have to change are some settings referring to the server IP! Like NginxProxyManager for example. Because your new server will probably get a new DHCP address the settings have to be changed to the new ip

[@whopua]

I migrated to a new server and assigned the new server the IP my old server had. I cannot access any of my dockers from the net like nextcloud but on my LAN everything is fine. Do you have any ideas?

[@dankruse8041]

Great videos, and glad to be your newest subscriber. My dilemma is that my USB key failed, so I do not have the ability to "migrate out" properly. Also, it was an old 4.4 version that I can not find anymore, not that it would matter. I have decided to upgrade the machine and have the newest stable version running. My fear is that just moving the old drives in will cause a loss in my old data. Any thoughts?

[@taakomagnusen2037]

great video! Cant wait for more on the 6.9.x series. Do you have a video on how to install unraid fresh but keep the data on the array? Like lets say i've made a mess of my unraid installation by installing too many dockers/plugins/etc and I just want to start completely fresh but I don't want to lose any data on my existing hard drive array; is there an easy way to completely start fresh using the same USB drive and unRaid activation serial tied to it; wiping any and all dockers/VMs/plugins/configurations/etc but keep all the data on the array the same and remake the shares?

[@MrZeJohn]

Was really hoping the VM 6.9.x video was coming out... have waited all week! :(

[@toons5233]

great vid now i wonder how many unraid builds you have. on side note man thats over kill vid card for linux

[@johnp2802]

Great Video, Big LIKE! is there a video where you explain where have a Unraid Backup Server synced in case the Main server blows up? Maybe auto switcheble, So you can switch from one server to one other easy. I'm using Home assistant and relying very much on automations if somethings goes wrong on the unraid server things can get pretty ugly :D

[@johnpaulsen1849]

I loved the video. I do have a question. I had a Ryzen 7 1700 and then upgraded to a 3950x. After which I have vms with some video cards require the cpu type of emulation with a model of epyc. Now sure why this is but was a bit frustrating as it had just worked with the older CPU. Not sure if you have seen this when upgrading just the CPU.

[@OldGregg00]

What if you just want the dockers moved over to a new server and don't want to take the drives because you've got bigger drives on the new server?

[@whopua]

For anyone with Google Wifi, I had to delete and re-enter all of my port management entries as they were associated with my previous server. Until I did that I was unable to reach my server from outside of my LAN.

[@romankiss3793]

Thank you =) A Video about VM Backup would be great how to restore a VM, i didnt check that

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Sure thing! Added to my list :)

[@romankiss3793]

@@SpaceinvaderOne great ty

[@JC.72]

yes and if unraid can have a built in v, migrator or vm backup and restore plugin it would be great!

[@romankiss3793]

@@JC.72 i would be happy if they add a snaphost function or someting like that that it can be good as esxi oder proxmox. VM is the only thing i dont really like in unraid because u have less options

[@KarlHaferJr]

Sooo....lets say I was a bit of a slob when first building my system and my disks are in a somewhat random order - am I correct in thinking that all I need to do is reorder them nicely and unraid will just keep humming?

[@MorkaiAU]

If I was going to move to a newer server, and eventually move to a whole new set of disks (currently 1x8TB parity and 4x4TB array disks, intending on using 1x10TB and 2x10TB in future) am I better off just moving the existing hardware as demonstrated above, and then move the data across to the new disks as a separate procedure?

[@AskTheRealDrBrown]

All was working fine. I upgraded my case and motherboard so I moved my drives. Unraid doesn't see all of the. drives. I added the Disk Location plugin. The two 16 TB Seagate drives (one is data and one is the parity) in the Not Found Section passed the SMART test, so they have power and they both have new SATA cables as well. However, they both don''t show up in the array (or as unassigned drives). Any ideas on how to get them to appear? This is last issue from rebuilding. What I am I missing? Thanks in advance.

[@EstebanBurneo]

Thanks

[@MAD450r2]

You seem really know unraid well. Can I ask about upgrading unraid 5.0.6 to six. My current motherboard failed on my server so im trying to use my e5 2690 v3 on an asus x99 deluxe motherboard. Im hoping I can do so and learn how to run windows 10 or 11 also on that machine as you do ? maybe you can point me to a place to read up on it some.

[@TangoEchoAlphaUK]

Hi SpaceInvader One - I am on Ryzen X470 with the BIOS updated to ComboAM4PIV2 1.2.0.2 (current BIOS from MSI). I have made the change described on the Unraid forums for changing "power supply idle control" to "typical current idle" (before it was set to auto). Is the zenstates change still necessary in Unraid 6.9.2? I am currently using a Ryzen 2400G APU and upgrading to a 5600X. Thanks :)

[@bobgrauer]

I was unable to make any changes to the old server because it died of old age.

[@highmastdon]

I have moved from a Supermicro blade server with raid controller (didn't use raid though), but it used the raid serial keys, and not the regular hdd serials. How to migrate that?

[@Raymond6494]

Perfect NIce one

[@methanoid]

No ACS patch and both GPUs in same group 0 and not stubbed. How did that work? It's complete opposite of guidance including your own videos, Ed??

[@kkk55]

I put in the line with c6 disable into the terminal like described in the video but when i try to open the terminal again with nano boot/config/go i get the error Directory 'boot/config' does not exist (even on reboot) ?? The server did reboot without problems when i binded the graphics card. What should i do now? Did this broke something. Update: Nevermind got it working

[@xanamata5386]

thanks ! can we have separate configurations for different hardware on the same usb stick ?

[@viq234]

What about the static ip address, do i just need to change the address reservation on my router to my new devices mac address?

[@tytalkstech]

I don't know about the hardware-agnostic claim. I am planning a migration and just for the test I moved the SATA to another port and the server wouldn't boot up again until I moved it back to that exact SATA port

[@robertt9342]

Why would moving to another sata port affect USB boot?

[@Manckosy]

Your E3-1240 Xeon has EEC RAM, the ryzen not.... HOW IMPORTANT IS ECC FOR UNRAID? Is it recommendet or nice to have ECC RAM -- or does Unraid dont get anything from ECC?

[@icyhotonmynuts]

This is amazing news. 😂

[@subagon]

You can't believe how timely this is! I'm in the middle of doing this right now. I'm just waiting for a few parts to arrive so I can start the migration. I do have one question, what about systems with multiple NICs? My old server has 4x1G NICs on the motherboard and I have assigned them to different uses. Generally, one is used for the NAS and the rest are split among different dockers and VMs. My new server has 2x10G on the motherboard and 4x1G on a PCIe card. What if anything should I be looking at/for?

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

What i would do is leave all how it is with the nics. But when you first boot the server you can boot it in GUI mode with monitor connected. Then you can goto settings and network and set the nics correctly under the interface rules. Booting in GUI mode means if for some reason the main nic you used to use with the nas (the one you would connect to unraid from your pc) wasnt the one you expect it doesnt matter as you can easily change it in gui mode. I hope that makes sense. Thanks for watchin :)

[@subagon]

@@SpaceinvaderOne Thanks for the reply! I'll update this in a day or two with my results.

[@subagon]

It worked with only a small problem. First I don't think I've ever used the GUI console mode and it didn't work for me. The screen just came up blank. maybe the monitor I was using was too old??? Anyway, I had 6 NICs and just moved the cable to each NIC until I was able to ping the IP of my server. Of course, it was the last one :) So my old server had 4x1Gb NICs and the new server has 2x10Gb plus a 4x1Gb on a PCIe card, unraid assigned eth0 thru eth3 to the PCIe card and eth4 and eth5 to the 10Gb NICs.

[@BrianMartin2007]

What about migrating your data say, from 1TB drives in the array to say 4TB or larger drives? How's that done?

[@jongriffith4293]

What about the mac address of the ethernet interface in relation to your router? I would want the IP address to be the same on the new system as it was on the original.

[@whopua]

I migrated to a new server and assigned the new server the IP my old server had. I cannot access any of my dockers from the net like nextcloud but on my LAN everything is fine. Do you have any ideas?

[@beardo-baggins]

I started my migration into a new server build yesterday. And, I'm now half way through upgrading the HDD from 1tb to 6tb 😁 *p.s.* Did you ever make a new video on installing & setting up Krusader? Things look different in the old video compared to binhex-krusader.

[@ierosgr]

What about the static ip address wqhich has been created during installation. Isnt that tied with the specific nic port which also has a specific name (for example esp7s0)? If someone during VM creation would use cpu host instead of kvm, wouldnt that cause trouble with the migration of the VM to another system which would have different cpu? Wouldnt for instance, a Win10 Vm had installed specific drivers according to the cpu passed through to that VM? So after migration wouldnt someone need to unistall those chipset/cpu drivers and install the ones who correspond to the new CPU? At 5:48 the asus pci card is the 10gb nic one? Also adding zenstates line which disables the power states does that mean that the cpu now cant idle at all? (Even though I noticed you ve disabled one of many states specifically c6 Was that for hibernation or sleep?) Last you should continue the video a little more and show that the linux VM did start up and recognized the card Thank you

[@whopua]

I migrated to a new server and assigned the new server the IP my old server had. I cannot access any of my dockers from the net like nextcloud but on my LAN everything is fine. Do you have any ideas?

[@mephistovonfaust]

Now the question is, if I have my old server in a Dell R710 and had to use the PERC 6i raid controller, creating virtual disks, each being a single physical drive, how do I migrate from there? I don't suppose the migration is that easy but it's exactly the problem I have atm. The new server is build and waiting for the hard drives but I don't want to risk data loss.

[@highmastdon]

Did you figure it out?

[@amateurwizard]

NIce one

[@SpaceinvaderOne]

Thanks for watching :)

[@nonsuch9301]

Does anyone know what would have to be done if you wanted to replace the cache drives ?

[@scotthoffman8682]

Well, I am not Ed but I usually clean up any files by using the move command, update my dockers and plugins etc. Then shut down dockers/VMs and anything that might make changes to the cache drive(s). Then I use my SMB (windows) connection and copy the system and appdata folders to a backup share that I have for this purpose. Now I can shutdown the array and do what I need to with that cache drive(s). When I am done configuring my new cache drive(s) I start the array. Everything is still turned off, I then copy system and appdata folders back, run permissions on them, then turn it all back on. Did I miss anything Ed? I am pretty sure that I learned all this from SpaceInvaderOne some time ago and he probably has a video for that.... Good Luck and Have Fun!

[@mrforsythdevon]

Proper Jelly, 3080 in your server..!!!!

[@vfaguilera]

5950x? Baller Unraid Server!

[@MrJohnyclassic]

Anyone know if the c6 disable is needed for Threadripper as well? I will be migrating to a 2950x. Thanks!

[@nasserb]

i want to know this too?

[@MrJohnyclassic]

@@nasserb I never found the actual answer to this question. But I ended up just going ahead and doing it. I reasoned that Threadripper is just more Ryzen cores so it's probably the same. My TR server has been running flawlessly since so I recommend just to go ahead and disable the C6.