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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...
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.
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.
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.
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
acugye wrote:
destroy the volume - will simply deleting the folders suffice, if not how?
No it won't. You need to click on the settings wheel on the volume page, and choose destroy. You''ll then need to confirm it.
acugye wrote:
create two new data volumes (one per drive). In this case what is a data volume or is it just an empty hard drive?
Once in flexraid, you'll select the first disk on the volume page, and then create the first volume (call it "data", which is what your current volume is called). After that select the second disk and create another volume on it.
You can think of volumes as virtual disk drives. Right now you have one 4 TB volume, that is built from your two physical hard drives. It's only 4 TB because it is a RAID-1 mirror. I have 4x6TB drives in my 526x NAS, with a single 18 TB RAID-5 volume.
acugye wrote:
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
The shares list is on the admin web ui. They are shared network folders. If you have two volumes, then you'll see two lists - one for each disk.
When you recreate the volumes in flexraid, all your existing shares will be gone, so you will need to manually recreate them. When you do that, you'll be putthing them on a specific volume (which in your new setup would be the same as "on one of the two disks". If you put them all on the same volume, you will be in the same situation you were before - except you'll have one completely empty disk sitting next the the full one.
The shares all have unique names, and you'd access them the same way as you do now from your PC.
Are all your backups saved in a single shared folder on the NAS? Or are you saving to multiple folders.
Hello Stephen, Thank you for your patience and for explainign things as we go, it is apprecaited. With a bit of Wiki reading now understand the Raid l;evels 18TB thats big!
Thewre was no detrot option on my ready nas admin so I did a factory reset it is in the middle of a resync, which may take another 11 hours. Apparently I can still format whlst that is happening. as i go to the x-raid button on the right of the page this messge comes up.
Netgear recommends that only advanced users disable x-Raid. Once x-raid is disabled you can create multiple volumes on the system, however, incremental vertical expansion is not supporte4d with x-raid mode disabled. Are you sure you want to switch from x-raid to flexi-Raid?
Is my answer yes and then continue with your instructions?
Thanking you again,
Gye
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