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gpaolo
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Oct 01, 2020
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Volume: The volume XXXX encountered an error and was made read-only. It is recommended to backup

Hello, I have just received this notification: Volume: The volume Volume1TB encountered an error and was made read-only. It is recommended to backup your data I just checked and the volume is mark...
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    gpaolo
    Oct 02, 2020

    Well, end of the story. For posterity:

     

    when it happens, do not attempt anything except a backup copy. 

    Files should be ok (they were all fine in my case, no data loss), as someone else said in another similar thread office files won't open, but I think it's because office tries to lock them and it is not able to write on the share, but if you copy them somewhere else they will be ok.

    But don't do anything else, after I tried to reboot the volume was completely gone, together with the data. 

    If this failure happens in the volume including the first disk, applications are lost too. Lesson learned here (it took a while): backup all configurations in a share, which is backed up again.

    My two 6-months new WD HDD are now moved to external USB units for automatic backup and two new Seagate Ironwolf disks are in.

    Rebuilding is in progress (my personal discovery, copy files from backup USB unit to volumes is a lot faster if done from SSH), let's hope it will last for a while...

    Thanks again to StephenB for the support!

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