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ReadyNAS Ultra 4+ silently shut down
My Ultra4+ is runing RAIDiator 4.2.20. This morning I woke up to my NVR disk alarm going off. It turns out that the NAS had silently shut down sometime over night. I powered it back up and it boot...
I'd do this:
(a) backup data and document configuration
(b) remove existing drives, labeling by slot
(c) install one purple drive (which will do a reset)
(d) upgrade to OS 6, do basic configuration
(e) change to flexraid, delete the data volume
(f) install remaining purple disks, and create volume with raid-5
(g) convert back to xraid
(h) reconfigure shares
(i) install any desired apps
(j) restore data
Preserving the existing disks gives you a fallback if the backup has problems. I've attempted to minimize sync time by starting with one disk, and destroying/resyncing the full volume in (e) - (g).
Thanks for the outline, will be doing this within the week. One more question: If I end up needing to revert to the old drives after moving to OS6, will they still be recognized or will I need to fall back to RAIDiator 4.x first?
atebit wrote:
Thanks for the outline, will be doing this within the week. One more question: If I end up needing to revert to the old drives after moving to OS6, will they still be recognized or will I need to fall back to RAIDiator 4.x first?
If you power up with all the old drives it should boot with the volume as read-only. http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29957?cid=wmt_netgear_organic
Though I haven't seen any posts from OS6-on-legacy users that confirm that this works with the legacy NAS.
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