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ReadyNAS Pro 6 no volume and all disks are red
Hi, ReadyNAS Pro 6 (RNDP6000) Firmware 6.10.8 I am hoping that someone can help me. All 6 disks on my ReadyNas Pro 6 are red. Because I have 28TB of free space. I thought it was safe to swap an ex...
Thank you both for replying.
I am still feeling very sick about this situation. after some sleep and come to some clarity. I want to also note that I did deleted the some inactive/dead volume when the ReadyNAS notification popped up. Now, don't ask me why I did, because I don't have an answer and I am asking that of myself. I have resigned to the fact that through my own carelessness and stupidity I may have lost all the data.
I can't recall the total volume but I think it is somewhere around 50TB and used 32TB. mostly of videos of old movies or TV series. But the one that I am hoping to recover are the family videos of approximately 10TB.
Luckily, all photos and important documents are not on the NAS. Which I have made 3 copies on 3 external drives.
I am going to purchase another NAS as a backup and addtional external drives as a redundency backup. in the meantime I will purchase an external drive to immediately copy the data off the NAS if StephenB can perform miracles.
I will share the logs download with StephenB via PM.
A quick note to update and close off my thread.
Thank you to this community for taking an interest in my post and responded. Especially StephenB for the time and guidance in private message.
Armed with StephenB prognosis, we had a family meeting and the consensus is not to stress over the incident. As much as we would love to have those memories, factor in the data recovery service cost with no guarantee of results. We have decided not to engage data recovery service. With in mind that the data is now gone and no expectation, I will attempt to recover the data myself. success or failure (which is likely), I will reset the NAS and start again.
This is good and hard lesson learnt.
Going forward I will have a second NAS off site, and standalone disks as backup.
When you get that other NAS and move one of them to a remote location, ZeroTier is a good way to interconnect them. That's what I use. There are NAS-specific versions for many brands. There is one for the ReadyNAS that was developed by another user and, though it's pretty old, it does still work. Via SSH, you can also install (but also must administer) a newer (but not the latest) version. I prefer ZeroTier to a general VPN because it connects just specific devices, not complete networks. A drawback (though not much for this use) is that every device must have ZeroTier installed. There is a hoop you have to jump through to install any app because of the outdated Debian base of the ReadyNASOS.
Some useful links to related posts:
ZeroTier-as-a-ReadyCloud-replacement
How-I-got-apt-update-and-install-to-work-with-Debian-Jessie
Make sure you read through everything, or maybe even start at the end and work backwards, as there have been changes and useful comments along the way.
Thanks Sandshark for the info on ZeroTier and the related links.
I was planning on using site to site VPN. but this sounds like a better solution.
With regards to a new NAS. I have been doing some light reading and watched YouTube reviews. Synology seems to be the front runner in many reviews. I am leaning towards either the DS1621+ or DS1821+.
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