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NAS: After normal powerup blue light flashes twice then nothing - No LAN LEDs - No HDD LEDs
NAS has been in service for for a few years. Disks have been in service for a few years. Was plugged into a UPS system, but the storm knocked power out longer than the battery lasted, so was abruptly...
That worked! I'm in. Shares and volumes look in-tact.
You sir are a f***ing genius.
netgearGive this person a promotion and a raise.
Dead serious. I've risen from the ashes.
Man, I'm about done with 2020. Not even safe working from home these days.
Re: Backup strategies, I'm assuming you had something in mind like online?
Care to offer up suggestion?
This is about 3-4 months of my life's work. I trusted it to Netgear and now glad I did. Got a bit bumpy there, and not going to lie was scared.
I want to be prepared 100% for future.
I was sure that a NAS, with UPS + Enterprise drives in RAID 1 was good enough.
I attached a screenshot here, so you can see, I don't run anything exotic on here, solely used for work, no apps.
Thanks again StephenB you saved my bacon. If you're ever in the SW corner of Ohio. Lunch is on me mate.
that_guy wrote:
Which pages is it on? I hit the PDF up on the ReadyNAS model I own and didn't see anything on OS reinstall on specific model there. Just different ways to boot into different "bare metal" setups
I already gave you a link to the hardware manual and gave you the pages.
StephenB wrote:
You can try an OS reinstall from the front panel. See pages 65-67 here: https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/READYNAS-100/ReadyNAS_%20OS6_Desktop_HM_EN.pdf
Not sure what manual you were looking in, but the full manual set is here: https://www.netgear.com/support/product/RN312.aspx#docs
that_guy wrote:
Is this "data safe?"
Yes. Of course there is always some risk when there is damage, but this is designed to preserve your data.
The OS reinstall
- does a partial reinstallation of the OS
- resets the network configuration to default (dhcp, no bonding, default MTU)
- turns off volume quota (easily re-enabled on the volume settings wheel)
- resets the admin password back to password.
That worked! I'm in. Shares and volumes look in-tact.
You sir are a f***ing genius.
netgearGive this person a promotion and a raise.
Dead serious. I've risen from the ashes.
Man, I'm about done with 2020. Not even safe working from home these days.
Re: Backup strategies, I'm assuming you had something in mind like online?
Care to offer up suggestion?
This is about 3-4 months of my life's work. I trusted it to Netgear and now glad I did. Got a bit bumpy there, and not going to lie was scared.
I want to be prepared 100% for future.
I was sure that a NAS, with UPS + Enterprise drives in RAID 1 was good enough.
I attached a screenshot here, so you can see, I don't run anything exotic on here, solely used for work, no apps.
Thanks again StephenB you saved my bacon. If you're ever in the SW corner of Ohio. Lunch is on me mate.
that_guy wrote:
netgearGive this person a promotion and a raise.To clarify - I don't work for them. Superusers here are customers, not employees.
that_guy wrote:
Re: Backup strategies, I'm assuming you had something in mind like online?
Care to offer up suggestion?
This is about 3-4 months of my life's work. I trusted it to Netgear and now glad I did. Got a bit bumpy there, and not going to lie was scared.
I want to be prepared 100% for future.Note there are quite a few physical threats to your data - theft, fire, flood, and nearby lightning. And of course user error and malware/ransomware.
There are a couple of options. USB backup is one approach -using the built-in backup jobs in your NAS. If you have enough storage, you could also consolidate everything (backing up everything from the primary NAS to the second one). That's one thing I do myself. If you turn off SMB on the secondary NAS, then that does give some insulation from malware.
Cloud backup could also be part of the mix - though it can be harder to set up, and backing up/restoring everything won't be very fast. I also use this for disaster recovery.
that_guy wrote:
Thanks again StephenB you saved my bacon. If you're ever in the SW corner of Ohio. Lunch is on me mate.I'm glad I was able to help (and that you recovered everything).
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