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| Author: | richone52 [ Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:29 pm ] |
| Post subject: | If I buy the ex485 can I swap the drives from the EX470 and |
Yeah I know that this is may seem silly but I am looking to buy the EX485 for the better hardware and faster processor and am willing to use the existing drives from my EX470. If this works I am expecting that I would just pull the drive from teh 470 and place it in the EX485 and reboot. Can anyone tell me if this is possible and will work? I can then give my old EX470 to a friend and not have to reset it and he gets a bigger 750 drive. Rich |
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| Author: | yakuza [ Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:42 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If I buy the ex485 can I swap the drives from the EX470 and |
Nope, that won't work. There's a very slim chance that you could install your old drives into the new server, immediately perform a Server Recovery using the new EX48x recovery disk, and end up with a functioning system. Please note that I have NOT tested this and am merely theorizing. If you try it please back up your data first, and then let us know if it works. 
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| Author: | richone52 [ Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:54 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If I buy the ex485 can I swap the drives from the EX470 and |
yakuza wrote: Nope, that won't work. There's a very slim chance that you could install your old drives into the new server, immediately perform a Server Recovery using the new EX48x recovery disk, and end up with a functioning system. Please note that I have NOT tested this and am merely theorizing. If you try it please back up your data first, and then let us know if it works. Thanks! What would you suggest to get the data over as the best way. I wont worry about the backups as much as I also just built some new computers. |
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| Author: | JohnBick [ Fri Mar 13, 2009 9:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If I buy the ex485 can I swap the drives from the EX470 and |
You could use the procedure outlined in viewtopic.php?f=3&t=3261 , either saving it all or editing it to eliminate the portion that saves the backups. After saving the data I would DEFINITELY try to install the disks in the new server and execute the Server Recovery (NOT Factory Reset). Since both servers use the same WHS I suspect that will work fine. While I do not know anyone having done it from an EX47x to an EX48x I do know it has been done between a EX47x and a "home brew" (DIY) unit. Unlike Alex I will be very surprised if it fails... |
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| Author: | yakuza [ Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:15 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If I buy the ex485 can I swap the drives from the EX470 and |
So I should clarify what I said earlier. I don't expect this would cause a problem from the WHS perspective, in fact I agree with John that it would likely work quite well or I wouldn't have suggested it. The concern I have and the reason I encourage caution is that HP does some specific things to backup and restore their settings, registry keys, ini file, etc, that could conflict between the two server versions, and since I haven't tried it (yet) I do not know exactly what will happen in the restore scenario. |
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| Author: | JohnBick [ Sun Mar 15, 2009 11:13 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If I buy the ex485 can I swap the drives from the EX470 and |
richone52: Please let us know what your results were! |
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| Author: | richone52 [ Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:21 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If I buy the ex485 can I swap the drives from the EX470 and |
Well guys I chickened out and just moved the data to some hard drives I had free. I agree that it should ahve worked but I decided that it was best to just do it the old fashioned way. Rich |
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| Author: | yakuza [ Sun Mar 15, 2009 10:24 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If I buy the ex485 can I swap the drives from the EX470 and |
You should have tried it after you backed up your data to the other drives.  Dammit, I'm going to have to try this one of these days to see how well it works... |
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| Author: | JohnBick [ Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:28 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: If I buy the ex485 can I swap the drives from the EX470 and |
I just pulled the data drives from my MSS EX475 and put them in a DIY test system. Came up like a charm. Checked it out briefly and put the drives back in the MSS. No issues. FYI, I only defined one user and no Add-Ins on the DIY system. The MSS was shut down beforehand and not powered on again until the disks were replaced so there were no hot-swaps. I really do believe the "system" and the "data" are separate for these purposes, Alex, and I look forward to your test results! |
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