ST2000DL003 Compatibility?

Thanks both for the advice.
I will connect up through the switch and connect the backup drive to a PC through USB. Does the rsync advice still apply? Or is it OK to backup using simple drag/drop across the network and then rsync the two locations - and it hopefully needs to do nothing..
I am using W7 and Firefox - have done a config backup and looked inside - a tmp and etc folder. I do know some unix (also use ssh on the NAS) so will have a look through them. :)
I have thought for a while about putting the switch onto the network 'before' the router and connecting almost everything through that but have never gotten around to it. I think I will now..:)

EDIT: did a quick backup to remote PC but couldn't see how the rsync process could be modified to it - let alone a USB drive connected to it. Not even sure a backup can go to a USB attached to a remote PC?
Drag/drop me thinks..

Thanks again.

Steve

You are correct in that the backup cannot connect to an external drive connected to a PC. Windows drag and drop will work. The suggestion about the backup job and rsync verification was based on a USB drive connected directly to the Duo.

Thanks for that.
Something else I've just thought of is file/folder permissions. Is there a way to preserve those?
Will I need to re-install addons? eg Transmission and ssh?
When I ssh onto the NAS as root, I see various files and folders at the root folder of the NAS. Is there a way to see that folder from a Windows folder? eg the folder /root contains my .bashrc file with aliases in. What else do I need to back up besides 'c'?

You have gotten me to the ragged edge of my knowledge. The file/permission levels is not specifically listed so I would doubt it. Add ons, I believe would NOT be copied over.

As to seeing the root directory of the NAS via Windows, I would doubt it. The root is very protected in Linux and I would doubt if the interface would allow Windows to view it.

SSH and all other addons you wish to use would need to be re-installed, with the possible exception of the addons included in the firmware (e.g. ReadyNAS Remote, though 4.1.7 ships with an outdated version of that, so it'd be advisable to update it to the latest).

If you have stuff on the OS partition you wish to backup, you may wish to create a tar archive of it (do one that preserves ownership and permissions, you can see a good example in the build_addon script you download from the article: How to develop a Frontview Add-on, the install.sh script shows how to unarchive it). It'd be up to you to find where the config for your addons is stored and back that up should you wish to do so. Best to note down what your settings are just in case you don't find all the files you need to archive.

Once you have your tar archive, copy/move that onto the C volume and then back it up.

Drives arrive in a couple of hours so just checking and moving the switch.
One thing I just thought of as a bit of help regarding permissions is simply cd to / from an ssh shell and do an:

ls -alR >c/fulllisting.txt

which at least gives me a copy of any permissions, GID's and UID's before the backup should I be struggling with permissions afterwards...
Will let you know how I get on...

EDIT: Update connected the switch and a 350MB file copied to the PC that will have the new drive attached (but via USB) at 32MB/s - so quite happy with that - about a threefold increase.. :)

I am currently upgrading capacity of my NV+ to 2tb disks and have two Seagate ST32000542AS drives in place along with two 1.5tb drives. I see that the new Seagate ST2000DL003 drives are now the sane price as the older drives @79.99. Can I mix the two different drives? Do I need to do a reset due to different sector size, even though Seagate claims smart-align technology? Has anyone done throughput testing? Suggestions Thx!

OK, the data copied off OK and I did a factory reset (when I restarted with the drive in it asked me which RAID I wanted - I went for the normal, expandable one). Restored the settings OK. My write speeds back to the NAS are slow - 11-12MB/s - over a gig network. My read speeds doing the backup (obviously on the old drive) were around 30MB/s. I didn't check the write speeds after switching to the gig switch.
This is going to take a looooong time.

I have just downloaded the logs and the partition.log file looks like this:

Disk /dev/hde doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/hdc: 2000.3 GB, 2000388448256 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243200 cylinders, total 3907008688 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdc1              32     4096031     2048000   83  Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hdc2         4096032     4608031      256000   82  Linux swap / Solaris
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hdc3         4608032  3906992335  1951192152    5  Extended
/dev/hdc5         4608040  3906992335  1951192148   8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/hde: 2000.3 GB, 2000388448256 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 243200 cylinders, total 3907008688 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk identi

I could be totally wrong but what does the 'Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes' bit mean? Is that not where you would now see 4k?
Also, In My Computer on W7, the drive of the NAS (mapped to NAS 'c') says Filesystem - NTFS. That can't be right can it?
The smart+ for the drive says:

Spin Up Time	0
Start Stop Count	6
Reallocated Sector Count	0
Power On Hours	3
Spin Retry Count	0
Power Cycle Count	6
G-Sense Error Rate	0
Power-Off Retract Count	4
Load Cycle Count	6
Temperature Celsius	33
Current Pending Sector	0
Offline Uncorrectable	0
UDMA CRC Error Count	0
Head Flying Hours	6532645257219
	
ATA Error Count	0

What's with the head flying hours there?

sjw wrote:
I could be totally wrong but what does the 'Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes' bit mean? Is that not where you would now see 4k?

No. It means that the utility is measuring using units of 512 byte sectors. You can see that the start sectors are divisible by 8 (remember 4096 [4k] / 8 = 512), so the partitions are aligned for 4k sectors.

sjw wrote:
Also, In My Computer on W7, the drive of the NAS (mapped to NAS 'c') says Filesystem - NTFS. That can't be right can it?

That is weird. I don't use Win7 so not sure what's going on there. Maybe samba tricks the PC into thinking it's working with a NTFS drive?

sjw wrote:
What's with the head flying hours there?

Ignore that. It's supposed to have a huge figure.

Thanks for that. Surprised at the large number for a new drive.
Interestingly, after I did the restore I could still ssh onto the NAS without having th re-install the enablerootaccess add-on.

Once I have restored the data, can I literally switch off and put the old drives back in and do some speed tests again? Not overly impressed with the write speeds I'm getting. Although I assume the fact there is only one drive may affect that slightly?