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Change frame, hdd's show as dead
Hi, Not sure where to post, have had a look around for something similar but havent found info. I had a Ultra6+ frame with 3 hdd's in it, all was working fine. I had to move this frame to another l...
Sorry It has taken a long time to get to this. I now have a machine fully functional again. Something went astray in moving the HDD array from one frame to the other. I had been living with it for a while. Then something happened (cannot remember what) and it wouldnt boot up, just sat on the booting window. Luckily been there before a few times, so the sweat beading from my brows wasnt nearly as bad.
Had to do a USB recovery (after trying to find a usb stick that worked). Changed the firmware to suit the new version (with 3TB Drive) then upgrading to the latest firmware. A few reboots, file system checks etc. Viola all working as expected.
Thanks for advice, did all the suggestions. Found the HDD's to be fine with the vendor tools.
As for backups (please, I'm not changing the thread to talk about backups), although that unit hadn't been backed up in a while for various reasons, so I did find some spare drives to copy the important stuff over. I am pretty sure no-one would argue my rather elabourate backup strategy:
- Readynas Pro 6 Bay @ home hosting music, movies, and vaious other documents etc. (loaded with 3 x 3TB HDD's)
- Readynas Pro 4 Bay @ work hosting business files (loaded with 3 x 3TB HDD's)
- Readynas nv+ 4 bay @ work final backup (loaded with 4 x 2TB HDD's)
Backup stage 1 - Rsync via vpn from work to home and vice versa for all important files between both units.
Backup stage 2 - iSCSI drives (from Pro 4Bay) connected to all PC's for daily PC & Server backup.
Backup Stage 3 - Rsync ReadynasPro to NV+ in office to do backup every second day, and every week.
Backup Stage 4 - External USB HDD on each readynas backing up really important stuff.
Obviously none of that is any good if it doesnt work...... so email alerting setup on all readynas units with summary and if backup failed.
Matt
Had to do a USB recovery (after trying to find a usb stick that worked). Changed the firmware to suit the new version (with 3TB Drive) then upgrading to the latest firmware. A few reboots, file system checks etc. Viola all working as expected.
Thanks for advice, did all the suggestions. Found the HDD's to be fine with the vendor tools.
As for backups (please, I'm not changing the thread to talk about backups), although that unit hadn't been backed up in a while for various reasons, so I did find some spare drives to copy the important stuff over. I am pretty sure no-one would argue my rather elabourate backup strategy:
- Readynas Pro 6 Bay @ home hosting music, movies, and vaious other documents etc. (loaded with 3 x 3TB HDD's)
- Readynas Pro 4 Bay @ work hosting business files (loaded with 3 x 3TB HDD's)
- Readynas nv+ 4 bay @ work final backup (loaded with 4 x 2TB HDD's)
Backup stage 1 - Rsync via vpn from work to home and vice versa for all important files between both units.
Backup stage 2 - iSCSI drives (from Pro 4Bay) connected to all PC's for daily PC & Server backup.
Backup Stage 3 - Rsync ReadynasPro to NV+ in office to do backup every second day, and every week.
Backup Stage 4 - External USB HDD on each readynas backing up really important stuff.
Obviously none of that is any good if it doesnt work...... so email alerting setup on all readynas units with summary and if backup failed.
Matt
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