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Correct setup in order to facilitate further disk recovery
Hello there! My question is quite in between several sections of the forum. I am the happy owner of a 2 bays ReadyNas Duo and a brand new 6 bays Nas OS 6. The ReadyNas Duo is configured in X-Raid....
If the primary copy is on your PC/Mac then the copy on the NAS is a backup.
Please have a read of Preventing Catastrophic Data Loss
RAID is great, but there are some problems it cannot protect you against. If the primary copy of your important data is on the NAS you should have another copy of it on another device, preferably with at least one copy off-site for disaster recovery.
With RAID-6 for example you would have protection against two disk failures (whereas the default for X-RAID is 1 disk failure). But disk failures are not the only thing that can happen. RAID is great and is a great first line of defence for your data.
If the NAS chassis fails out of warranty you can use free Linux tools to recover data assuming enough of the disks are fine and also the array and volume are fine.
If newer models at some point in the future run a different OS we will likely have a method to be able to attempt data recovery of arrays from the current models using newer units.
Please have a read of Preventing Catastrophic Data Loss
RAID is great, but there are some problems it cannot protect you against. If the primary copy of your important data is on the NAS you should have another copy of it on another device, preferably with at least one copy off-site for disaster recovery.
With RAID-6 for example you would have protection against two disk failures (whereas the default for X-RAID is 1 disk failure). But disk failures are not the only thing that can happen. RAID is great and is a great first line of defence for your data.
If the NAS chassis fails out of warranty you can use free Linux tools to recover data assuming enough of the disks are fine and also the array and volume are fine.
If newer models at some point in the future run a different OS we will likely have a method to be able to attempt data recovery of arrays from the current models using newer units.
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