Migration Assistant
Migration Assistant is an application for migrating data from one Synology NAS to a new one. With only a few simple steps to set up, this tool streamlines the traditional migration process and seamlessly migrate system settings and data.
Source and Destination Synology NAS
In these Migration Assistant articles, the original Synology NAS from which data is moved shall be called the source Synology NAS or source device, while the new one shall be called the destination Synology NAS or destination device.
Migratable Items
Migration Assistant is designed to migrate all services and data to a new Synology NAS. The following are migratable items:
- Data (migrated on a volume/block-level LUN basis)
- Packages, package settings, and package data
- System configuration
Note:
- Firewall and DHCP server settings will be migrated. However, these services will be set to disable on the destination device by default.
Non-Migratable Items
The following items will not be migrated by Migration Assistant:
- The DSM version on the destination device will remain unchanged
- Synology Account settings
- Licenses
- Network settings in Control Panel
- Server name, Default gateway, IPv6 default gateway in General tab
- Network Interface (except for VPN profile, IPv6 Tunneling, MTU value in IPv4 settings, and 802.1X)
- Static Route
- External Access settings in Control Panel
- Push Service settings in Control Panel > Notification
- Desktop widget and taskbar settings
- Virtual Machine Manager's settings
Note:
- Please install Migration Assistant on the destination device.
- 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.