ReadyNas Ultra 4 VPD Corrupt

Here's the long story. Ran into dependency problems with apt-get (my fault). Got to the point where the NAS wouldn't boot into anything but support mode. I couldn't figure out a way around my problem in support mode so I factory defaulted with a single spare drive I had lying around. I tar.gz'd the OS partition on that drive and expanded back over the OS partion of my normal array. Still wouldn't boot. mdgm pointed out that that I merely extracted over the OS and didn't wipe it conpletely which would lose my config. I could deal with losing some of my configs so I deleted everything from the OS partion and expanded the OS I tar'd from the spare drive. System booted up fine with all data still intact. Uploaded the config backup I had from a few days ago through frontview and my users are back. I may have to restore some other stuff manually, I haven't checked yet, but the important part is the NAS is booting up with the same data partition. Exactly what I wanted.