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Hi! I received an alert my volume was degraded (Disk #2). It then told me: Detected increasing reallocated sector count: [606] on disk 2 (Internal) [WDC WD60EFRX-68L0BN1 WD-WX21D5533R6R] 32 times in...
ummjay wrote:
thanks StephenB and MikeD1234 . So now I've backed up the data from my 6TB to the new 10TB drive. Can someone please walk me through the next steps?
Just to be clear, I am assuming that you connected the 10 TB drive to a PC (windows or mac), and backed up the data on the NAS over the network. If you didn't do that, let us know the details, as the steps below might not be correct.
(a) hot-insert the blank 10 TB drive into the NAS, and wait for it to sync.
If the sync is successful, then
(b) remove the 6 TB drive. Hot-insert the other 10 TB drive and format it in the NAS. It will resync and expand the volume to 10 TB.
if the sync fails, then
(c) remove the 6 TB drive and do a factory default with the blank 10 TB drive in place
(d) reconfigure the NAS (recreating shares etc)
(e) copy the files from your current 10 TB drive
(f) hot-insert the current 10 TB drive into the NAS, select it, and format it. It will then sync with the first drive.
Note if you like, you can skip (a) and (b), and instead just do steps (c)-(f). More work, but you would get a completely clean volume and OS partition.
ummjay wrote:
Once I get my 2nd 10TB drive, do I just take out the 6TB, and insert both 10TB (one has my data, and the other would be the new blank one)?
No, that won't work. So don't try that.
That is, of course, exactly as it is supposed to work. But things can go wrong during a sync, especially if you question one of the drives, so the backup is insurance. But now that you put the 10TB backup into the NAS, it's no longer a backup. The old 6TB is, but won't be up to date for long. So, you may want to consider a more permanent backup solution.
Hi! Meaning, the 6TB is not enough as a backup because it was prev used in the NAS? What do you suggest? Getting a new 10Tb as a backup in addition to the 6TB I have?
No, meaning the 6TB is no longer in the system (and cannot be added back), so it's not being updated. You can certainly decide to use that 6TB is a backup by mounting it in some way and using ReadyNAS backup jobs or some other means to keep it updated, and maybe that's what you were meaning and I misinterpreted that you were simply holding onto it as it was removed.
Sandshark wrote:
No, meaning the 6TB is no longer in the system (and cannot be added back), so it's not being updated. You can certainly decide to use that 6TB is a backup by mounting it in some way and using ReadyNAS backup jobs or some other means to keep it updated, and maybe that's what you were meaning and I misinterpreted that you were simply holding onto it as it was removed.
ummjay - You could power down the NAS and then
- remove the 2x10 TB drives
- reinsert the 6 TB drive by itself
- power up the NAS
and that will give you access to the files on that drive.
But in terms of backup, it'd be better to connect it a PC, and use FreeFileSync (or some other backup software) to back up the NAS files - the same as you used before to create the temporary backup on the 10 TB drive. RAID isn't enough, there are failure modes that will result in data loss even with RAID.
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