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ReadyNas 212 HELP needed
Hello all, I have a Readynas 212 and I need help after making many errors.
I currently have 2x 4TB drives. Drive #1 is older and had data already. I turned from JBOD to RAID1 by moving for X-RAID to FLEX-RAID then turned it off, inserted Drive #2 and booted again. It all synced and everything was fine. Drive #2 is brand new and I inserted it straight as received, no formatting done beforehand. I thought readynas would format it but could not do it or risk losing the data.
Then a couple of things did not work like not being able to activate ReadyDLNA (Error is that it cannot start the service). Then saw that Drive #2 is degraded, so started trying different things to replace it, moving back to X-Raid etc. And now I cannot access the Data. I've restarted the system many times switching the drives but seems I made everything worse as at some point I did not access to Admin page, so had to perform an OS Reinstall on both drives and now I cannot access the data.
Drive #1 is in Bay1
Drive #2 is in Bay2
I don't have access to any file now, that at this point is all that matters so that I can save some critical folders elsewhere to format everything and start from scratch with redundancy.
I have another 4TB drive brand new and a 6TB drive with some backup data but there's still more data to recover from Drive 1 or 2
This is all that I see when trying to browse folders:
If I select Drive#1 I see the X-Raid in green, New Volume greyed out and Format and Global Spare are available.
Should l eliminate/destroy that "data" volume that is showing up there with 0 for Data and 0 for Free Space?
I even tried connecting one of the drives to a PC with SATA adapter but it would not read the folders.
I've downloaded the logs, if it helps, please let me know what file is the one that I should paste here.
Thank you,
Ihshinron wrote:
is there anything that can be done to try to recover the data on either 4TB #1 or #2?
First, don't bother with tailed drive. Boot up the system with only the 4 TB drive in place.
If you are still using password as the NAS admin password, then change that to something. Then double-check that ssh is still enabled in system->settings->services->ssh.
You can then download WinSCP ( https://winscp.net/eng/index.php ). That supports a protocol called SFTP. Set up a connection that uses that protocol.
Use the IP address of your Nas (not the one in the screen shot).
After you connect, the right pane should look something like this:
Somewhere in that list you should see your DSK-4TB folder. Navigate into it, and see if your shares are listed. If they are, you can copy them to a disk on the PC.
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UPDATE: The "data" volume showing there is the volume of the 6TB drive (JBOD) that is not mounted. Could it be that since I had Drive#1 and then inserted Drive#2 maybe I named them both the same and screwed that?
When I try booting only with Drive#1, it would not boot completely. So I made an OS Reinstall on that drive but it does not boot alone anyways.
If I boot on Volume Read Only would I be able to access that 1TB of data to save the files before formatting all?
Ihshinron wrote:
Should l eliminate/destroy that "data" volume that is showing up there with 0 for Data and 0 for Free Space?
No. Doing that will make it even more difficult to recover.
Ihshinron wrote:
Then saw that Drive #2 is degraded,
Drives are never degraded. Volumes are degraded. Shuffling around drives might have made recovery more difficult.
FWIW, if you were running XRAID before, all you needed to do was hot-insert the new drive.
Ihshinron wrote:
I've downloaded the logs
I can take a look if you like. Upload the full log zip to cloud storage (dropbox, google drive, etc), and send me a PM (private message) with a link. Make sure the permissions are set so anyone with the link can download. You send a PM using the envelope link in the upper right of the forum page.
Don't post the link publicly, there is some privacy leakage when you do that.
Thank you Stephen, I just snet you a PM with the link.
Have you left out some steps? I think you may have done this:
Started with a 6TB drive in bay 1 and 4TB drive in bay 2 as separate JBOD volumes. You then powered down and removed the 6TB before doing what you've listed. But6 how you had two volumes and were still in XRAID mode has me questioning this. At any rate, the 6TB is involved somehow, and you need to include it in your description.
NAS are not designed to be drive bays in which you can swap drives back and forth. So if I'm right, then you have very much confused the OS. It looks like it marked the original 4TB as RAID1 but couldn't add the other to that RAID, thus it is degraded. I've never done this, so i can't be sure, but I suspect the problem is that the OS still reserved bay 1 for the 6TB drive.
It also appears to me that your 6TB was the primary volume and the 4TB the secondary, which made the situation even worse by booting without the primary drive.
It's unclear to me why you wanted to go to RAID1 when you wouldn't have room for all three drives. Was this an attempt to create a "backup"?
If I'm right, then I believe that you've only confused the GUI and you can get to your files via SSH.
You can probably get everything back and get the GUI to recognize everything by booting with the two original drives. But I'd do so in read-only mode first (via the reset button menu) just in case that doesn't work. The 4TB volume will still show as degraded, but I think you'll get access back. If this all works, once you back up the data and feel comfortable booting in read/write mode, I can tell you how can use SSH to tell the NAS that the 4TB is actually JBOD so it doesn't complain about the volume being degraded.
Sandshark wrote:Have you left out some steps? I think you may have done this:
Started with a 6TB drive in bay 1 and 4TB drive in bay 2 as separate JBOD volumes. You then powered down and removed the 6TB before doing what you've listed. But6 how you had two volumes and were still in XRAID mode has me questioning this. At any rate, the 6TB is involved somehow, and you need to include it in your description.
NAS are not designed to be drive bays in which you can swap drives back and forth. So if I'm right, then you have very much confused the OS. It looks like it marked the original 4TB as RAID1 but couldn't add the other to that RAID, thus it is degraded. I've never done this, so i can't be sure, but I suspect the problem is that the OS still reserved bay 1 for the 6TB drive.
It also appears to me that your 6TB was the primary volume and the 4TB the secondary, which made the situation even worse by booting without the primary drive.
It's unclear to me why you wanted to go to RAID1 when you wouldn't have room for all three drives. Was this an attempt to create a "backup"?
If I'm right, then I believe that you've only confused the GUI and you can get to your files via SSH.
You can probably get everything back and get the GUI to recognize everything by booting with the two original drives. But I'd do so in read-only mode first (via the reset button menu) just in case that doesn't work. The 4TB volume will still show as degraded, but I think you'll get access back. If this all works, once you back up the data and feel comfortable booting in read/write mode, I can tell you how can use SSH to tell the NAS that the 4TB is actually JBOD so it doesn't complain about the volume being degraded.
Yes, you are absolutely right. I did not mention that because did not want to make the post too long.
I used to have the 6TB Bay1 and old 4TB (Drive#1) Bay2. Both as JBOD. Using them just fine but did not know that I could still do a RAID1 with a 6TB and a 4TB, now I know it can be done not sure how though but doesn't mind now.
All of a sudden the 6TB started making a click noise and could not be accessed so I thought I had lost all data in that drive and because it was JBOD I knew I had to turn everything into a 4TB Raid1. I turned everything off and a couple of months later ordered and received 2 new 4TB drives. I turned it back on and I don't know why but 6TB drive works fine now...
I moved data from 6TB to 4TB, then removed 6TB and turned 4TB into Raid1. But I think there's an issue with the OS that I got the system confused by not formatting and starting all from the ground up. Then inserted a new 4TB drive, al synced good but then there were some issues with DLNA not being able to turn on due to "Volume issues" (of course). I panicked and did watever came to mind.... and I think I made things worse because I did OS reinstall on both drives etc. Now I cant access the data because I believe I have removed the logical order or whatever is needed to recognize the raid1.
Question: If I boot in Read-Only mode with both 4TB drives in should I be able to see the files and copy them out to my PC? Would I be able to then boot again and have the drives in read/write again?
For the future, how should I start over?
Place both drives in the NAS, format all and create 1 volume name with both 4TB disks?
If I wanted at some point to insert the 6TB drive to copy some data from there... would I be able to do so?
Thanks,
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