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Mar 11, 2018

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Inactive volumes - data not available

Hi, My readynas could not be found on the network so I hard rebooted the box. After rebooting my volumes are unavailable and I'm receiving the error messages below: - Volume data RAID Leve...

Inactive volume

Performance

mdgm-ntgr
Mar 14, 2018
Have you tried booting to volume read-only mode? If your volume mounts in that the next step would be to make sure you have an up to date backup.

Are quotas enabled on your data volume (note quotas are used for showing space consumed by individual shares and snapshots, so even if you haven't set a quota on a share, quotas may still be enabled on your data volume)? If so, it's possible an OS Re-install may help as that would disable quotas on the data volume.

mdgm-ntgr

NETGEAR Employee Retired

Mar 22, 2018

Looks good. You may wish to update to 6.9.3.

stigpepper

Tutor

Mar 22, 2018

Hi mdgm,

I've upgraded the firmware to v6.9.3 and everything seems to be working as expected. Thanks a mill for your help and support as I'd feared I would've lost approx. 3 months data or would needed to pay for netgear again for extended support and data recovery.

To give me more resiliance going forward I've bought an old HP Proliant server which I'm going to use for backup purposes but hope to be able to use one of the 6TB HDD's from the ReadyNAS.

I'd appreciate if you would confirm if I can swap the 6TB disc with a 2TB disc or does it need to be a like for like replacement.

Thanks Stig

StephenB
Guru
Mar 22, 2018
stigpepper wrote:

To give me more resiliance going forward I've bought an old HP Proliant server which I'm going to use for backup purposes but hope to be able to use one of the 6TB HDD's from the ReadyNAS.

No. You can't shrink a RAID volume from the web ui. You'd need to destroy the volume, replace the disk, and create a new one. Then recreate your shares and reload the data from backup.