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ReadyNAS Duo RND2110-100NAS inaccessible
Hello, I have owned this ReadyNAS Duo for years - it stores pix, music, videos, backup files, and everything else. a week ago the drive 2 light and poser butting kept blinking and now I cannot ...
Sorry for the delay, please do not take that as lack of appreciation.
Ran raidar - found my NAS with a different IP address than the static one I assigned years ago.
Every network drive on every PC since has had the same IP address assigned to the NAS, i.e. 192.168.0.102 vs. 192.168.0.33
Every network drive on every PC since has had the same IP address assigned to the NAS, i.e. 192.168.0.102 vs. 192.168.0.33
Shut down, plugged in disk 2, restarted...
Raidar reflected the correct IP address ...33
Status: Quota check
However, I only plugged in disk 2 but it had green check marks for BOTH drives.
"Browse" got me into Disk 2... everything is there!!!!
"Admin" lauched correctly. Log shows "RAID sync started on volume C." several times, but no completion. Recognizes only one drive installed.
Raidar reflected the correct IP address ...33
Status: Quota check
However, I only plugged in disk 2 but it had green check marks for BOTH drives.
"Browse" got me into Disk 2... everything is there!!!!
"Admin" lauched correctly. Log shows "RAID sync started on volume C." several times, but no completion. Recognizes only one drive installed.
Ok, first let me start with a huge thank you for getting me to here!
Now, before I put in Disk 1 and risk watching it X-RAID all of my data to zero or something similarly catastrophic..
What should I do?
What should I do?
Put in Disk 1?
Remove some old legacy apps (as I have seen in other threads)?
Update firmware with a USB (not that I know what that means... more threads)?
Buy something?
And please tell me your suggested backup strategy... I thought the X-RAID WAS my backup strategy! (I'm sure you are cringing)
Remove some old legacy apps (as I have seen in other threads)?
Update firmware with a USB (not that I know what that means... more threads)?
Buy something?
And please tell me your suggested backup strategy... I thought the X-RAID WAS my backup strategy! (I'm sure you are cringing)
Please and thank you... I am so grateful.
JayRo34 wrote:"Browse" got me into Disk 2... everything is there!!!!
"Admin" lauched correctly. Log shows "RAID sync started on volume C." several times, but no completion. Recognizes only one drive installed.
Great! It looks to me like disk 1 failed. Normally the NAS will boot off that drive if it is present. You can confirm that by testing disk 1 in a Windows PC with vendor tools (Seatools for Seagate, Lifeguard for Western Digital). Another possibility (much less likely) is that bay 1 has failed.
The best thing to do now is copy your data off the NAS. The fastest way to do that is to copy it over a wired ethernet connection to a drive connected to your PC (for instance a USB drive).
After you have a copy of the data, you can try replacing disk 1. You'd insert the replacement while the NAS is running. The disk compatibility list is very old (so it isn't a useful guide). NAS-purposed drives are good choices - WDC Red or Seagate Ironwolf.
JayRo34 wrote:
Now, before I put in Disk 1 and risk watching it X-RAID all of my data to zero or something similarly catastrophic..
What should I do?Put in Disk 1?
Remove some old legacy apps (as I have seen in other threads)?
Update firmware with a USB (not that I know what that means... more threads)?
The best thing to do now is copy your data off the NAS. The fastest way to do that is to copy it over a wired ethernet connection to a drive connected to your PC (for instance a USB drive).
After you have a copy of the data, you can try replacing disk 1. You'd insert the replacement while the NAS is running. The disk compatibility list is very old (so it isn't a useful guide). NAS-purposed drives are good choices - WDC Red or Seagate Ironwolf.
JayRo34 wrote:
And please tell me your suggested backup strategy... I thought the X-RAID WAS my backup strategy! (I'm sure you are cringing)
I think the least expensive strategy is to back up the NAS to USB drives. As noted above, with your NAS it's fastest to connect the drive to a PC that is connected to the network with ethernet. Ideally you'd use two drives, and rotate them (perhaps weekly).
A more expensive (but also more convenenient) strategy is to back up your NAS to another NAS. That's what I do myself. You'd get a new NAS (perhaps an RN212) and re-purpose your Duo as a backup. You can set up backup jobs in the web ui that wiill back up each share automatically on a schedule. The RN212 is quite a bit faster than the Duo, and it has more features as well. So it would give you an upgrade as well as a backup.
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