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ArnoBrok
Apr 04, 2018Aspirant
ReadyNAS RN102 network card dead
Hi, We had a mayor lighting storm passing over and caused a power outage. Afterwards my ReadyNAS was not accessible although the front lights all seem OK. When I looked at the back there is no gr...
StephenB
Apr 04, 2018Guru - Experienced User
ArnoBrok wrote:
- If I buy another RN102 would I be able to move the disks across?
- What other ReadyNas units would be compatible (like a newer 2 series)
You can directly migrate them to any OS-6 NAS (both intel and arm CPUs) - though if you migrate to one with an intel processor you'd need to reinstall apps.
ArnoBrok wrote:
- Is there a way I can mount them on a linux pc?
Yes that can be done too. You'd need to have mdadm and btrfs installed.
Something like
# apt-get update
# apt-get install mdadm btrfs-tools
# mdadm --assemble --scan
# cat /proc/mdstat
# mount -t btrfs -o ro /dev/md127 /mnt
ArnoBrok
Apr 06, 2018Aspirant
Would I need to insert both disks or eould one work? I am trying to keep at least one disk as a sort of backup.
Thanks for the help
Thanks for the help
- StephenBApr 06, 2018Guru - Experienced User
You can migrate one. Then you'd need to do a resync when you added in the second.
- mdgm-ntgrApr 06, 2018NETGEAR Employee Retired
StephenB wrote:
You can migrate one. Then you'd need to do a resync when you added in the second.
Which would mean you would be vulnerable to disk failure of the first disk during that resync, so before putting the second disk back in you'd want to do a backup first to a 3rd disk (e.g. a USB disk connected to the NAS or some other storage on your network).
- StephenBApr 07, 2018Guru - Experienced User
mdgm-ntgr wrote:
StephenB wrote:
You can migrate one. Then you'd need to do a resync when you added in the second.
Which would mean you would be vulnerable to disk failure of the first disk during that resync, so before putting the second disk back in you'd want to do a backup first to a 3rd disk (e.g. a USB disk connected to the NAS or some other storage on your network).
Agreed.
Also, you might consider getting a UPS for your NAS.
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