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Readynas Duo V1
Originally had system set up as 2 mirrored 2TB WD Green drives. System stopped booting. Removed both drives and used externall enclosure to inspect drives with R-linux. 1 drive not accessible and ...
I am thinking to be safe I mount the old drive inthe external enclosure on my PC wiht R linux and then copy all data to another drive I have.
Then do as you suggest. If it goes wrong then I can at least copy the data back from the backup.
As a point what format drive does the usb sockets read on the NAS?
GougeM wrote:
I am thinking to be safe I mount the old drive inthe external enclosure on my PC wiht R linux and then copy all data to another drive I have.
I was going to suggest that, I agree it's a best option since you are already set up with R-Linux
GougeM wrote:
... what format drive does the usb sockets read on the NAS?
ext (linux), NTFS and FAT32. USB performance on the Duo is very slow - it's fastest to transfer data over wired ethernet.
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