NV+ appears hung on disk swap

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xtianstratus2 wrote:

 

Considering that I don't have a second backup of the data on there, what would be the best choice moving forward?

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I think you are actually saying that the NAS holds the only copy of the data? Then if you had multiple disks with issues, it was very risky to replace them one by one.  It would have been much better to create a backup first.

 

 

If the volume is still available, I suggest backing up whatever you can (most critical files first).  You might also download the log zip file from the admin ui, and see if there are any disk errors during the resync.

 

If the volume isn't available, then you could power down the NAS, remove the new disk 2, and boot it again with slot 2 empty.  Then back up the data.

 

Once you have all the data, you can do a factory install with the new disks in place, rebuild the NAS, and restore data from backup.

 

 

 

An alternative is to power down the NAS, and clone drives 1,3,4 to the new drives, using cloning software that does sector by sector cloning.  Then power up the NAS with just those disks in place. You can then hot-insert the new disk 2 - which will then resync.  One disadvantage of the alternative is that there is likely to be some file system damage on the NAS when you are done.  The factory install above would eliminate that possibility.