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ReadyNAS Data Recovery - VMware recovery tool
Description This topic contains links to linux VMware images (Debian / Ubuntu) that have been modified to enable you to access your ReadyNAS duo HDDs from any machine with a USB plug and a SATA to US...
Thank you acmtn. :worship:
I have downloaded your singlefile, unzipped, booted up in VMWare Fusion on my Mac and successfully accessed the VM.
In the VM I opened up a terminal as root and followed the command line instructions as posted by dekkit at the beginning of this post.
Wahoo - I did not get the inode error. :D
When the terminal said "block size is 16384", it did not return to the cursor.
However, I opened up a new terminal as root and was able to view all of my files.
The next stage was to copy required files off the old disk.
I had a slight complication, in that a large number of the file names (in the source directory and in subdirectories) contained spaces.
This was also the case in the target directory of the USB disk I was copying to (I wanted to only copy those files/directories that did not already exist).
The old disk was not visible through the desktop, as the desktop had vmuser permissions, not root.
Repeated variations of command line hocus pocus were unsuccessful, but using 'startx -- :1' (thanks, Roxoff@www.linuxforums.org/forum) I was able to start a root permissions GUI to drag and drop the files.
I've not bothered with the few files that are > 4GB, as it's apparent that the VM with the compiled-in ext2fuse needs to be recompiled with large file support (beyond my capability).
For the edification of other users on this forum, my problem was not a hardware issue (and anyway, my Duo is out of guarantee) - the problem was the partition that is used by Netgear to store all of the configuration data became corrupted - i.e. my data was fine, but the NAS was no longer operable - even a firmware reload did not fix it.
My only alternative was a factory reset, blitzing my data (and my backup process wasn't optimal).
Thanks to the efforts of acmtn, dekkit et all I have now been able to recover my data.
Best regards, Peter
I have downloaded your singlefile, unzipped, booted up in VMWare Fusion on my Mac and successfully accessed the VM.
In the VM I opened up a terminal as root and followed the command line instructions as posted by dekkit at the beginning of this post.
Wahoo - I did not get the inode error. :D
When the terminal said "block size is 16384", it did not return to the cursor.
However, I opened up a new terminal as root and was able to view all of my files.
The next stage was to copy required files off the old disk.
I had a slight complication, in that a large number of the file names (in the source directory and in subdirectories) contained spaces.
This was also the case in the target directory of the USB disk I was copying to (I wanted to only copy those files/directories that did not already exist).
The old disk was not visible through the desktop, as the desktop had vmuser permissions, not root.
Repeated variations of command line hocus pocus were unsuccessful, but using 'startx -- :1' (thanks, Roxoff@www.linuxforums.org/forum) I was able to start a root permissions GUI to drag and drop the files.
I've not bothered with the few files that are > 4GB, as it's apparent that the VM with the compiled-in ext2fuse needs to be recompiled with large file support (beyond my capability).
For the edification of other users on this forum, my problem was not a hardware issue (and anyway, my Duo is out of guarantee) - the problem was the partition that is used by Netgear to store all of the configuration data became corrupted - i.e. my data was fine, but the NAS was no longer operable - even a firmware reload did not fix it.
My only alternative was a factory reset, blitzing my data (and my backup process wasn't optimal).
Thanks to the efforts of acmtn, dekkit et all I have now been able to recover my data.
Best regards, Peter
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