How to transfer data from 11yr old LS-CHLE1D to a new twin HDD Raid Linkstation

[spineytoo]

I have an 11 year old LS-CHLE1D link station (and a stand alone USB connected Buffalo hard drive used for back-up)
I want to buy a new Buffalo twin disk RAID Link Station with new hard drives and I want to transfer the data on the old main Link station to the new one.
The old Link station does not have pull-out drives  (Though I expect I could disassemble it.)
I do not want to copy folder by folder.  Is there an easy way to transfer the data please?

[1000001101000]

I'm not familiar with all the available options within the firmware but you can access the files from the old device on your PC either via the network (if it still works) or by connecting the drive to a Linux system to access the XFS filesystem. You could then copy the files to the new device via rsync/xcopy or a similar mass copy tool.

[spineytoo]

Thank you.
The old Link station is still operating on the network so your copy suggestion may work for me, having connected and set up the new Linkstation, but I hope that it will allow me to copy the whole disk content in one.

I guess that I would have to remove the HDD from the old one in order to connect it to a Linux system?

[1000001101000]

Yeah. I believe that model is pretty easy to take apart, but if it's working you could save the trouble and just copy over the network.

If you did pull the drive out and connect directly to the new linkstation I don't think the stock firmware would recognize it. I believe it will only work with drives in a certain layout and would get confused by the old devices firmware.

If you have some linux experience you could connect it and then manually mount it and copy the files from the command line. You can get shell access with this tool:
https://github.com/1000001101000/acp-commander

If you want you could even replace the stock firmware with Debian Linux:
https://github.com/1000001101000/Debian_on_Buffalo

[spineytoo]

Thank you; now to buy the replacement.