FYI, I wasn't able to do the swap out and restore UNTIL I first "initialized" the EX495, which means I had to let it go thru the intial setup before I could do a restore (using the EX470's system and data drives). Until I did this, the server would just keep rebooting..I had to connect a monitor to see this happening.

It's as if the BIOS is flagged somehow during the initial setup...

Well, looks like the recover process still isn't working for me. I rebooted the EX495 while pressing the recessed button, but it just stays in the DHCP....search mode. Never finds the recovery client running on my desktop machine. I see the server gets an IP issued....but the recovery client is not finding it for some reason.

If anyone has any pointers...I'd greatly appreciate them! Until then, I'll keep poking around.

I'm wondering how to do the same thing, although I do not have my 495 until tomorrow! I cannot see copying almost 5GB's of data between the two machines to make it work... not a great use of time or resources.

Have you tried rebooting the router? I assume that you have moved the drives over and have disconnected the 475 from the network?

I'm wondering if the recovery disks are model specific.... in other words, recovering a 475 requires 475 disks, recovering a 495 requires 495 disks, etc. I wonder if there's a file on the recovery disks that can be modded to force a recovery... What happens if you just move the data drives over to the new 495? Will they be recognized without erasing the data?

Anyone with suggestions???

This was posted by dindale at wegotserved:

On my desktop machine running the recovery client, it start an (Tftpd32) EXE to discover the server. The log from that EXE shows this:

Rcvd DHCP inform Msg for IP 192.168.0.196, Mac 00:00:00:00:00:00 [08/10 16:05:53.129]
Rcvd DHCP Discover Msg for IP 0.0.0.0, Mac 00:00:00:00:00:00 [08/10 16:06:21.177]
DHCP: proposed address 169.37.37.37 [08/10 16:06:21.213]
1724 Request 2 not processed [08/10 16:06:21.291]

I interpret this to mean the desktop recovery client sees the server (confirmed using MAC), but for some reason the server is not accepting the IP assignment (169.37.37.37). This loops until the recovery client fails from timing out (step 1 of 4).
The server displays "PXE-ME53: No boot filename received".

I'm using windows 7 X64 w/o firewall. I'll try rebooting my router and then using XP x86.

WOW...never would've tried that. I connected the ethernet server to desktop....recovery now finds the server and is continuing. Thanks for pasting that one, cavediver!

Results are in...

Recovery appears to have been an absolute success! All my EX470 stuff is now in the EX490---shares, backups, even the computers/clients. A successful transplant!

Just remember to connect the EX495 directly to the desktop machine (running the recovery).

Don't you mean "directly to the PC during the recovery"?

Just a note, those are the actual instructions. Server Recovery has changed in the EX49x series, there is no longer a flash disk and instead the server loads the bootable OS off the Recovery DVD via direct connection with the Client PC. This is meant to reduce the recovery errors some people experienced as well as reduce cost of the server by removing the flash memory.

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Good for you.. I'm jealous...some of us haven't been so lucky

http://www.mediasmartserver.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=5582

OP, can you provide a bit more detail about doing this? Is there an option in the server recovery for doing this data migration that you mention? You mention being able to recover both the data and system drives. How exactly does this take place?

I have an EX485 and am considering a similar data migration, versus the pain in the arse of having to reinstall everything as well as having to move over all of my data shares.

Thanks.

I followed the instructions provided here:
http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2009/08 ... -hardware/

Although, I did not have any issues with existing backups. Everything went smoothly once I connected the ex495 directly to my desktop PC for the recovery. Have not had any issues to-date.

Okay, thanks. I would want to upgrade my system drive to a higher capacity and more energy efficient drive, so it looks like I'd still have to reinstall all of my add-ons and other goodies if I went this route, but it's still good that I would potentially not have to reload or copy all of my shares.