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[esoxhntr]

Hi All, swear I tried the search without much luck

I'd like to up my storage capacity.  Currently I have two 1tb drives in a RAID1 config, would like to replace with two 2tb drives also in RAID1

What would the best approach be to the upgrade and moving the data on the existing drives to new ones?

I don't have a backup solution currently (do not yell at me).  

[fordem]

I guess you'll be getting a backup solution in the very near future.

1 - back up the data
2 - remove the existing 1TB pair
3 - install the new 2TB drives and format
4 - restore the data.

If you attempt to swap the drives one by one will result in a 1TB RAID1 volume and a 2TB JBOD volume - if you're feeling lucky, you can remove one of the existing drives and connect it to a PC running some form of Linux, or Windows with a ext2/3 file system driver and try to access the data that way - if successful, it would remove the need to find storage space and perform step 1.

[esoxhntr]

Thank you

What are the best backup options (long term, I can copy over the network for this upgrade to a PC) be since we can't seem to write to a USB drive directly from the NAS?  I'd like something more elegant than a USB drive hooked up to a machine on the network.   

[fordem]

Sorry - I'm not the best person to answer that question - my DNS-323 is my backup, so I don't back the DNS-323 up - D-Link's failure to provide a convenient way to do a backup (for example via the USB port) killed it for me as primary storage.

Mind you - it is surprisingly easy to hack the unit to allow an external USB, but I couldn't be bothered to take the time to hack a web front end together - a shame really since D-Link could have done it with relatively little effort using the built-in scheduled downloader (which is what I use to backup the data from my Windows server)