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ReadyNAS NV+ stall during File System check at 19%
My ReadyNAS NV+ is stalling during the File System check at 19%. It is visible in RAIDar, and all four disks register as healthy, until the 19% point is reached, at which point RAIDar cannot find t...
A few things to report:-
I have updated the security mode to User. I didn’t want to do that until I had backed up the current contents of the NAS, as I have started adding new music to it. I used FreeFileSync to update one of my backup discs, and that worked well.
Amazingly (I think), my brother has managed to recover the information from the original NAS disks. I’m pretty sure this took a great deal of work which I don’t claim to fully understand. However, what I believe he did was make a copy of each of the disks, mount them into a virtual machine, and then somehow recover the files. These are now all on one backup disk. He did identify that there were corrupt sectors on two of the disks, so some information may be missing. He provided a list of suspect folders, but luckily, as far as I can see they all coincide with folders I already have on my original backup.
My next step was to copy across to the NAS any files which I have not already added from my out of date backup. Again I used FreeFileSync to identify and copy the missing files. I was able to copy to the NAS using the PC, but with the Mac I ran into a permissions problem which prevented me writing to the NAS (after security mode had been updated to User). After a lot of trial and error connecting and disconnecting volumes on the Mac, I was eventually able to add the NAS media share as a volume on the Mac which I could write to. I’m not exactly sure what I did differently to get this to work.🤔
FreeFileSync is updating the NAS at the moment, and if that is successful I will be back with a working ReadyNAS with all data restored. Many thanks to all for the assistance.
Since updating security mode to User, I haven’t yet tried creating a backup job to a USB drive. I’ll try that next, though I am less concerned about that now that I’ve seen FreeFileSync in action. It looks as though it should be possible to create scheduled backup jobs.
Longer term, If I were to look at another NAS what would be the best options? Back in 2007 the choice seemed to be mainly between ReadyNAS and Buffalo, but now there is a bewildering choice.
Great to hear you were not only able to backup, but able to restore from the original nas drives. 🙂
One thing I would do though before you're done is to compare all the files bit-by-bit. There's a couple of different options for that--windiff by microsoft which is pretty decent but can crash on large compares, and winmerge which has the ability to compare 3x sources at the same time.
As far as a replacement, if you're only looking for something to be a NAS and nothing more, to be honest I would pick up a used readynas as it will be cheap and familiar. The newer nas units, especially by the bigger brands, want to do much more than just be a nas, so they're a lot more complicated imo. I have several units from synology and qnap and the older ones running dsm 6 are still fast on older hardware as a straight nas, but you can tell they are having to do a lot more in the background (whatever it is doing), just to keep itself up as a nas.
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