Much Ado About ReadyNAS Ultra 4

Thank you all!!

PapaBear, StephenB and mdgm.

You guys have been most helpful. I just dropped my 2 drives at Hitachi this morning. Waiting for the drives to come back before I start the transfers. Will keep you guys updated.


many thanks!

StephenB wrote:
Adiemus wrote: ...To accomplish the backup function, I would need to have both the Ultra 4, the NV+ and my PC hooked up to a switch right?... You need all three connected to the switch to start the backup, but once that is done you only need the source and destination connected.

Meaning to say, once the NAS to NAS backup has been initiated, I can shut down my PC?

Pardon my ignorance, how would I know when the backup is done?

Adiemus wrote:
Meaning to say, once the NAS to NAS backup has been initiated, I can shut down my PC?

Once scheduled you do not need to interact with it in any way - no PC required

Pardon my ignorance, how would I know when the backup is done?

By setting an appropriate notification when setting up the job:

Thanks sphardy.

Hitachi just got back to me. One of my drives has got a read/write problem. Will have to wait for the replacement to get my NAS backup up and going.

Ahh.... Finally, I got my 2 drives back from Hitachi. One for some reason, had some mac version of file system installed (don't ask me why), the other had a read/write problem. So, Hitachi replaced the latter.

Not taking my chances with a re-con drive. I bought a brand new harddisk to replace the re-con unit. *Sigh*...

Did a "factory reset" and the ReadyNAS showed me "Unable to install RAID" and Raidar shows "Corrupted Root" ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Thank God for forums, did a quick check and it seems to point to the RAM module. Well, a quick clean to the RAM module seems to do the work.

Am currently waiting for the firmware to finish with the installation. Let's hope everything turns out alright.


And guys, I need a favour. Anyone has a link or something that shows me step-by-step instructions on how to backup NAS to NAS?
I'm went through the menu in RAIDar, but got a bit confused over some terminologies.

I'm planning to backup my 4x1Tb ReadyNAS NV+ >>>>>> 4x2Tb ReadyNAS Ultra 4.

Thanks in advance! :)

Adiemus - I had to be walked through it the first time myself. Unfortunately, I have to leave shortly for a 1PM appointment and won't be back until after 5PM. At that point I will pull up all my images on setting up a backup job on the NV+ to the Ultra 4.

One thing you can do in the meantime is to mirror all the shares on the Ultra 4 to match exactly the spelling and Caps used for the shares on the NV+. This is critical.

Thanks PapaBear. Oddly, the system didn't resync as intended. I'm now adding the harddisks one by one. I just finished the second drive at 6AM in the morning. I'm currently at 8% on my 3rd drive. The way it looks, it'll take about almost 4 hours per drive.

By the time I'm done with the 4th drive, it'll probably be around 11PM, Singapore time... :(

I might have to get instructions from you only after the resync is completed. Many thanks!!

Sigh... This is getting extremely frustrating. After the resync of the 3rd drive. "VOL C LIFE SUPPORT" showed up!!

I'm in the midst of identifying the problem drive(s). It likely to be 2 or more drives right?

If if occurred on the third drive that may be the problem, as you did successfully add the second. I would hot pull the third drive and hot add the remaining drive in the third slot and see what it does.

that's the problem. the 3rd drive is the one i just bought. brand new!! i plugged it in as 2nd drive and it's resyncing now. almost 64%. zzz..... this is tiring....