# Moving Active Bacup to another NAS

**URL:** <https://forums.spacerex.co/t/moving-active-bacup-to-another-nas/1367>\
**Category:** Synology\
**Tags:** active-backup\
**Created:** [October 28, 2023, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.spacerex.co/t/moving-active-bacup-to-another-nas/1367 "2023-10-28T08:52:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 28, 2023, 8:52am UTC](https://forums.spacerex.co/t/moving-active-bacup-to-another-nas/1367/1 "2023-10-28T08:52:51Z")

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What is the best way to mobe Active Backup for Business to another NAS ?

Hi, I recently setup Active Backup (thanks SPACEREX for videos) on my DS418play that Ive had for years. I just bought a DS1522+ (more thanks SPACEREX). My DS418play will eventually be wiped and become an offsite backup hyper target.

Im not doing a “synology migrate” as Im manually transfering the messy old files/folders into a different structure now Ive 5 years experience.

Active Backup…  
Basically I dont want to have to do the initial sync up again.  
I can copy over the base folder to new NAS and install Active Backup, and change the clients to access the new NAS…  
But will all the first NAS’s “history/snapshots” be usable on the new NAS ? I dont want to have to do a restore only to find the files I copied over are some kind of mismatch.

Anyone done this before ? Advice ?

Thanks.  
PS: this is my first post onto a “forum” ever, so be gentle with me 🙂