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Readynas Duo and the slow blinking blue light
Hello all, I'm the lucky owner of a readynas duo with a single Seagate disk of 1TB with default configuration (X-Raid i think). The Readynas was working fine for months until yesterday : i got this ...
zakapatul wrote:
Sadly i already tried... without success :( I think i will try the firmware re-install this weekend. I assume doing this i will lost all my configuration, my addons and so on...
It will re-install the firmware. Data and most configuration will remain intact. Some addons may be broken by the re-install of the firmware.
zakapatul wrote:
Not a big deal even if i spent a lot of time on it. Is there a risk for my data with this procedure ? If yes maybe would it be better to backup the disk content before ?
A firmware re-install doesn't touch your data. In any case I recommend you have a good backup of important data primarily stored on the ReadyNAS.
zakapatul wrote:
By the way, is there a way to backup and restore the content of the "system" ?
Not in the current state your NAS is in. How can you backup the data when you can't connect to the device? I think you'll need NetGear to have a look at it to see if they can get it back up and running.
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