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Readynas 104 drops out when copying to it
I have a readynas 104 configured with four 4tb drives in raid 5. I've managed to copy about 6tb onto the device without issue but now whenever I go to copy something onto the box, lets say a single 4...
Got the problem too. Hopefully I got just enough space to get back on my feets so I'll do it the clean way hoping the update will fix everything.
Do you have the changelog for us to see ?
I hate Netgear way to handle the factory reset. I'd appreciate to be able to mess around with SSH and just clean things up in a minute to start clean. A simple rsync script with --delete could do the trick most of the time no ?
Netgear would say RAID is never as good as a backup and that we should have at least two ReadyNAS. With that setup, we should be able to wipe without problem, having only one copy running for 24H. They're right about backup, but doesn't justify the downtime (up to two days to rebuild an empty array ? and what if the files are mirrored via xDSL or any weak site to site connection, we just wait a few weeks for things to sync ? ).
For those who don't want to wipe things out, BTRFS is easily resizable if my memory doesn't fail me.
so you can try this :
1°) Shrink the volume
2°) create and mount the new volume
3°) copy data from the old volume to the new one (you would want to preserve permissions, rsync is a good bet to resume a failing transfer)
4°) delete the copied data from the old volume and repeat step 1 to 3 till all data is copied (for those who don't have enough space to do it in one step)
5°) edit the /etc/fstab to mount the new volume instead of the old one at boot
6°) unmount the old volume
7°) delete the old volume
8°) reboot to check if everything boots up (Netgear ought to have seperated system from data, so should reboot with or without data mounted) or just remount the new volume for it to get to the right mount point.
If everything was done right, the system shouldn't see any difference, your share permissions should work fine.
I never tested that, I don't know much about readynas arch. But strictly linux speaking, this should work.
POTENTIALLY UNSAFE, NOT SUPPORTED BY NETGEAR, NOT TESTED.
There is also a procedure to do a restore without loosing data (http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=196365#p196365) which gives something like that.
umount Data (or remount RO)
erase /
reboot
use paperclip reset option to reinstall OS.
You can try those methods with no warranty but I strongly advise to do it the Netgear way. I personally won't try any of the two methods.
Hope the firmware will fix everything. (still waiting for some core function in the web interface too, like disk spindown, CPU/RAM/network/diskSpeed/DiskIO in performance tab, management at folder level (not share)...)
Do you have the changelog for us to see ?
I hate Netgear way to handle the factory reset. I'd appreciate to be able to mess around with SSH and just clean things up in a minute to start clean. A simple rsync script with --delete could do the trick most of the time no ?
Netgear would say RAID is never as good as a backup and that we should have at least two ReadyNAS. With that setup, we should be able to wipe without problem, having only one copy running for 24H. They're right about backup, but doesn't justify the downtime (up to two days to rebuild an empty array ? and what if the files are mirrored via xDSL or any weak site to site connection, we just wait a few weeks for things to sync ? ).
For those who don't want to wipe things out, BTRFS is easily resizable if my memory doesn't fail me.
so you can try this :
1°) Shrink the volume
2°) create and mount the new volume
3°) copy data from the old volume to the new one (you would want to preserve permissions, rsync is a good bet to resume a failing transfer)
4°) delete the copied data from the old volume and repeat step 1 to 3 till all data is copied (for those who don't have enough space to do it in one step)
5°) edit the /etc/fstab to mount the new volume instead of the old one at boot
6°) unmount the old volume
7°) delete the old volume
8°) reboot to check if everything boots up (Netgear ought to have seperated system from data, so should reboot with or without data mounted) or just remount the new volume for it to get to the right mount point.
If everything was done right, the system shouldn't see any difference, your share permissions should work fine.
I never tested that, I don't know much about readynas arch. But strictly linux speaking, this should work.
POTENTIALLY UNSAFE, NOT SUPPORTED BY NETGEAR, NOT TESTED.
There is also a procedure to do a restore without loosing data (http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=196365#p196365) which gives something like that.
umount Data (or remount RO)
erase /
reboot
use paperclip reset option to reinstall OS.
You can try those methods with no warranty but I strongly advise to do it the Netgear way. I personally won't try any of the two methods.
Hope the firmware will fix everything. (still waiting for some core function in the web interface too, like disk spindown, CPU/RAM/network/diskSpeed/DiskIO in performance tab, management at folder level (not share)...)
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