I write this post because I was not happy with the migration speed of my old DS420+ NAS to my new DS920+. I was in need of a solution to speed this process up. With those steps i was able to bring the estimated time to completion down from 3 days to 10 hours.
Requirements:
- Source Synology NAS
- A destination Synology NAS
- Your destination NAS needs two network interfaces (required for one tip in the list)
- Both need to satisfy the requirements of Synology
- The DSM version required for the source device is DSM 6.0 or above. However, we recommended upgrading to DSM 6.0.3, 6.1.7, or 6.2.2.
- The DSM version required for the destination device is DSM 6.2.2 or above.
- Migration Assistant supports certain Synology NAS models as source/destination devices. Please refer to this article to learn more.
Steps to increase the speed
- Directly connect your NAS to the other NAS.
- Go to your Network settings and set the Network Adress to x.x.x.1 and x.x.x.2, the subnet masks to 255.255.255.0 and leave the rest empty.
- Put in the new adress in the migration adress of your source NAS
- Make sure not jobs are running on the source NAS (Control Panel -> Task Scheduler) and disable every job.
- Stop running pakets on the source NAS
- Make sure Photostation is not creating thumbnails in the background, if it is end the process (postpone it)
- Disconnect the other network interface physically from the source NAS, to avoid any connections not relatet to the migration