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ReadyNAS Duo v1 stuck on Booting after power outage
There was a power outage at my house which turned my ReadyNAS Duo off. This has happened before so I manually powered it On but could not access FrontView or see it in RAIDar. I then accessed the b...
Hello dorian50,
OS resintall won't help. Is it configured as XRAID? If it is configured as mirror RAID, maybe try pulling out one of the disks and see if that will allow you to access the shares. The idea is finding out if one of the disks is causing the problem, so label the disks with which bay they are inserted and has been working, disk order is important.
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You might have lost the volume.
You can try powering down and mounting disk 1 in a PC (using R-linux for Windows: http://www.r-tt.com/free_linux_recovery/ )
Hi StephenB,
Thank you for your reply. Can the volume be lost if RIADar sees both disks as green/healthy? Also, would an OS reinstall help in this scenario?
Hello dorian50,
OS resintall won't help. Is it configured as XRAID? If it is configured as mirror RAID, maybe try pulling out one of the disks and see if that will allow you to access the shares. The idea is finding out if one of the disks is causing the problem, so label the disks with which bay they are inserted and has been working, disk order is important.
Welcome to the community!
Regards,
Thank you for the advice, JennC.
Finally made some progress! Here's what I did:
- Pulled the power as NAS wasn't responding to shutdown.
- Labeled both disk drives.
- Left disk 1 outside, put disk 2 back in the 2nd bay. (They were in X-RAID before)
- Powered the NAS back on.
- RAIDar saw the NAS correctly as Not Redundant.
- Frontview finally working! (RAIDiator 4.1.16)
- Tested email alerts and backed up configurations.
- Browsed to shares from a Mac successfully.
- Hot-added disk 1 and RAID sync is running now, should take about 18 hours.
The weird part is that the logs mention Improper Shutdown and RAID sync started while it was stuck in the Booting state. No mention of System is Up, though.
It would have been better to have backed up the data before reinserting disk 1. Hopefully the resync will be successful, making the backup unnecessary.
Overall RAID isn't enough to protect your data.
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