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Hi - I was moving house, and plugged in my Ready Nas to a USBC switch into my mac laptop. It was working previously while I was in my temporary home, and now that i'm in my home (while I wait for my ...
ummjay wrote:
Do I need to format it for NAS? I ask, b/c the format button is greyed out, and the XRAID is 'Green'.
It has been formatted already.
The next step is to go through the setup - in particular re-creating your shares.
Then copy the files from the PC over the network back into the correct shares.
You can then hot-insert the second drive. If the drive is unformatted,the NAS will start a RAID-1 sync. If the drive is already formatted, you will need to reformat in the NAS. You'll do that by selecting the drive in the center of the volumes page in the web ui. The format control should then be enabled, so you'd press that. The NAS will then format the drive and start the sync.
Either way, the sync will take a while (1-2 days). The volume status will be shown as degraded until the process completes.
I'm having all sorts of issues trying to reinstall plex media server on the new drive. I tried downgrading the OS to 6.10.9, and the app store wasn't working to find/install plex. Then i found some plex versions compatible for this readnas, but those weren't working either.
I was thinking, just for ease, maybe it makes sense for me to put the old drive (which seems to be recognized) in bay1, which has the plex media server and details on it, then just load the new fresh drive in bay2, that should copy everything over to bay 2, then I can swap out bay 1, with a fresh new drive and send that back, right?
If you agree, how do I initiate the sync, or does that happen on it's own?
ummjay wrote:
I'm having all sorts of issues trying to reinstall plex media server on the new drive. I tried downgrading the OS to 6.10.9, and the app store wasn't working to find/install plex. Then i found some plex versions compatible for this readnas, but those weren't working either.
You should get plex from here:
You can try uploading that version from the apps page.
But you almost certainly also need to apply the fix here:
Read post 37 in that discussion thread.
ummjay wrote:
I was thinking, just for ease, maybe it makes sense for me to put the old drive (which seems to be recognized) in bay1,
I don't think that is a good path. Being "recognized" doesn't mean that the system will boot from it.
But if you want to try it, then power down the NAS and then insert the disk in bay 1 (with bay 2 empty). Then power up the NAS and see if it boots normally and gives you access to the files.
If that does appear to work, you could try removing the partitions from the first new disk (the one currently in the NAS) and then hot-inserting it into bay 2 (NAS running).
Thanks, I think I will try and boot from the old drive, as I think it may work. If it does, then I can just mirror over to the fresh drive. Then once the 2nd (fresh drive), is all done, I can swap out the drive 1, with a brand new one and copy back. This way I have all my settings, etc.
If booting from my old drive (bay 1), with bay 2 empty works, I don't follow your comments below:
--If that does appear to work, you could try removing the partitions from the first new disk (the one currently in the NAS) and then hot-inserting it into bay 2 (NAS running).
Are you saying while bay1 is my old, and bay2 is the new, format the new (bay 2) in the admin gui? take it out and put it back in? How do I remove the partitions?
ummjay wrote:
How do I remove the partitions?
You can use the windows disk manager for this. (FWIW, it calls partitions "Volumes").
ummjay wrote:
Are you saying while bay1 is my old, and bay2 is the new, format the new (bay 2) in the admin gui? take it out and put it back in?
First you'd boot up with bay 2 empty (just the old disk).
If you want to try using the admin GUI, then you'd hot-insert the new disk into bay 2 while the system is running, select it in the volume page, and then format it. You wouldn't take it out and put it back in.
I am suggesting removing partitions instead, in order to ensure the admin GUI doesn't get confused (because the new disk was already running in the NAS and had the same data volume name).
ok thanks! so I ran the old disk in bay 1, booted up the NAS. I then took the 2nd drive (new one), and plugged it into my windows PC, removed all the volumes, then while the NAS was on, inserted it into bay2 of the NAS.
I refreshed my NAS admin GUI (on the volume page), but it's not detecting it. Only shows bay 1 (old drive) is in there. Do I need to reboot my NAS to see the 2nd bay drive (new one)?
I guess not! I took it out, and put back in, and now it's working and syncing! So once that's complete, I'll test everything out, if everything is working properly, then ill swap out bay 1, with the new drive and copy it back to that so i'm running 2 fresh copies. thanks!
If you are running RAID1, then there will be nothing to copy to the second new drive. RAID sync will take care of that.
I think I'm good now! Thanks for your help. I have my data restored, and the 2 new drives in (with access to my data). See attached images. It's showing both as spare, but guess that's OK since it's on X-Raid?
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