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ReadyNAS Duo V1 HW Rev 2 Standard Raid Configuration (Recovery)
Dear All, actually I moved from my old ReadyNAS Duo V2 (RND2000) to a new NAS. Unfortunately I forgot to copy one folder with a lot of movies from my children taken by camera and camcorder. Furthe...
Unfortunately I don't know the rstudio settings you need. I recall Netgear supplying them fairly recently on the forum, but I don't recall what platform (v1, v2, or legacy x86).
I can tell you that disk 2 is a "parity disk" that doesn't have a formatted data partition (e.g. the parity blocks are saved in the unformatted area of the disk). There are small partitions for the OS partition and swap.
Disk 1 should have a data partition. Note that depending on the history, disk 2 might sometimes end up in slot 1.
One option is to do a factory install on a fresh disk, and see if you can get rstudio to tell you what the right parameters are. You can also get a data recovery contract from Netgear.
Thank you very much for your support. Actual it seems that the drives contain the same data and are mirrored.
That leads me to a suggestion. Is it possible that the System was configured as X-Raid per default and when I made the factory reset I changed to Raid 1. So after the synchronisation it mirrored al data from one drive so that I now have the same fragmented files on both drive and my data are lost?
Ernie2210 wrote:
Thank you very much for your support. Actual it seems that the drives contain the same data and are mirrored.
That leads me to a suggestion. Is it possible that the System was configured as X-Raid per default and when I made the factory reset I changed to Raid 1. So after the synchronisation it mirrored al data from one drive so that I now have the same fragmented files on both drive and my data are lost?
I'm not sure about flexraid/raid-1. But I know for a fact that the second disk on a duo v1 with xraid does not have a formatted data partition.
Your case is more complex of course, since you started with xraid, and then did the factory reset with flexraid.
Unfortunately I don't know how I configured the system 5 years ago... Is there perhaps a log file in the system?
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