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recovering after drive failure
Need some advice on what to do next. ReadyNAS in X-Raid2 with 3X 2TB Drives. After family complained that it could not access shares, I logged in as admin. Disk 1 status "Dead", Disk 2 status "Spa...
StephenB wrote:
lundmilo wrote:I have a ReadyNAS 204 with 2x2 TB WD Red drives that is used to store family documents, photos and videos. I have setup a Backup job to run every wednesday and sunday at 20:05. All I have to is connect my 2 TB USB drive sometimes in the afternoon. The USB disk is kept in my company van so in case of fire or burglery while at work I don't lose my data.
USB drives are a popular approach (though I like using other NAS myself).
If your backups are incremental, I suggest that you run diags periodially on the drives (or schedule in full backups periodically). Then you'll detect any issues with the USB backups before you need them.
Thanks Stephen
I always just used an incremental backup, and when the USB drive was full i performed a manual full backup.
Now I am using a 2 TB USB drive to do incremental backup of approx. 1 TB of data, so it will be some time until the drive is full.
Yesterday i changed the scheduled backup to run a full backup every 4 weeks, so last night it made a full backup which was completed in a little over 3 hours,
lundmilo wrote:
I always just used an incremental backup, and when the USB drive was full i performed a manual full backup.
I've sometimes found that when I tried to read back the old files (which hadn't changed, so were written to USB long ago), that those sectors on the USB had failed. If you use multiple USB drives, the risk is reduced, but it's still a good idea to periodically verify your backups.
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