Manual Migration from CORE to SCALE 21.04

[LarsR]

Hi Everyone,

Today I tried migrating to scale from core 12.0-U3 and wanted to share my experience as tech enthusiast but very little experience
I Exported all my pools in Core, installed Scale and the Import worked without any Issues. I was up and running within 30 Minutes.
Scale does a better job at recognizing AMD hardware as my CPU temps are finally shown correctly ( Yaaay i'm Happy).

I have 0 experience with Kubernetes, but i still got plex up and running. I only had one issue as the app did not recognize the Plex Claim Token the first try,
but i think that was my fault because i got a phone call in the middle of the setup so the 4 Minutes may welll have been over.

After remapping my Network drives I was a bit puzzled because they are all shown with 0 used space although all my files are still there.

Next on my list is getting my Pihole back up and running.

So far im very impressed with Scales' state.

 

[morganL]

Thanks Lars, If you don't mind I will retitle the thread to " Manual Migration from CORE to SCALE 21.04". Anyone else can add their experience.

Please tell me you had a backup and rollback plan

Did you have any SMB shares.. and is it all still working?

 

[LarsR]

No I don't mind at all.

I have a Backup on an external hard drive. Nearly all Files are Movies and TV shows plus some Family Pictures.
I saved my old Core config and if it wouldn't have worked i would have simply reinstalled Core and reimported my config
SMB is still working. All I did was create the same username i was using in Core, set permissions and start the smb service.
No remapping of Network drives was neccessary.

 

[Kris Moore]

This is great feedback @LarsR - Very much appreciate it!