There's nothing really special about NFS when storing the data there (other than performance issues). I'd just use "rsync -avot" to copy over the data. That way you can run it prior to your cutover time to get it close. Then shutdown, rsync a final time, change your configs, and start. When I'd done similar, though on SAN my multi-TB switchover only took about 15min of downtime.
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