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acugye
Jun 26, 2017Aspirant
New Red Harddrive not avaialbe for backupo
Hello, I recentyl added a new WDRed 4 TB drive to my 2 bay Ready Nas 102. It shows it to be in good health but it does to seem to be avasilbe for backup. I am using Bvckup2 to move data from my Win...
- Jun 29, 2017
One thing to note: With two separate volumes, you will have to manaully juggle the load between the two. Stephen has recommended doing that over a single RAID0 volume because if a drive goes bad, you'll only lose the data on the one, not both. I agree with that recommendation unless manual space juggling is just out of the question. With multiple computers to back up, you shouldn't have an issue doing the juggling.
acugye
Jun 26, 2017Aspirant
Hello Stephen, Thanks again for your support. It was another 4 TB WD Red Drive. I would be using the X-Raid mode. I have just turned off x-raid and tried to run a backup to no avail. What would be the next step? Thanking you again,
Gye
StephenB
Jun 26, 2017Guru - Experienced User
acugye wrote:
I would be using the X-Raid mode. I have just turned off x-raid and tried to run a backup to no avail. What would be the next step?
Turning off XRAID now makes no difference, you might as well turn it back on.
Stepping back just a moment - Was your goal to increase the NAS capacity? Or was your goal to add redundancy?
On the backup question, is this backup job unchanged (and if so, did it work before you added the disk)? If so, are you able to access the volume from the PC?
- acugyeJun 26, 2017Aspirant
Again, thanks for your time. The aim was to add capacity as the backup job was failing due to a lack thereof. I can acess the volume from the PC on the admin page where I can check the two drives health etc.
- StephenBJun 26, 2017Guru - Experienced User
acugye wrote:
The aim was to add capacity as the backup job was failing due to a lack thereof.
Unfortunately once you go to RAID-1, there is no going back.
What you need to do now (to get more space instead) is to
- back up the data volume
- switch to flexraid
- uninstall your apps (if any)
- destroy the volume
- create two new data volumes (one per drive)
- recreate shares (some on each data volume)
- reinstall apps.
- restore data from backup.
- acugyeJun 27, 2017Aspirant
Thanks again Stephen. A couple of questions;
back up the data volume -all the data is on my main computer and external drives currentrly and is up to date
switch to flexraid - ok
uninstall your apps (if any) none installed
destroy the volume - will simply deleting the folders suffice, if not how?
create two new data volumes (one per drive). In this case what is a data volume or is it just an empty hard drive?
recreate shares (some on each data volume) Not clear what a 'share' is in this instance. Unless it is where i direct data to and on the admin page i couldnt see how you would send data to the two drives differently.
Sorry to be a pain,
Gye
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