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Replacement drive help?
I have a ready nas NV+ and was experiencing issues with a dead drive. The 1TB drive was showing full and i only had 420gb of material on it.
I have replaced the drive - and its still showing 0/931GB free on the front screen of the readynas?
I entered the drive into slot one and opened raidar, it said syncing drive 6hour 37 mins so I left it to continue.
Now when I click of my drive in either AFP or CIFS I can see all my old files (that were on my second drive) but it shows Volume C to be full?
Can somebody please advise how I get this issue fixed as its begining to test my nerves and i have just spent £100 on a new drive.
Thank you
I have replaced the drive - and its still showing 0/931GB free on the front screen of the readynas?
I entered the drive into slot one and opened raidar, it said syncing drive 6hour 37 mins so I left it to continue.
Now when I click of my drive in either AFP or CIFS I can see all my old files (that were on my second drive) but it shows Volume C to be full?
Can somebody please advise how I get this issue fixed as its begining to test my nerves and i have just spent £100 on a new drive.
Thank you
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- What firmware are you running? (this will also confirm whether you have a v1 or v2 product).
How many drives are installed?
What RAID configuration are you using? - i have to say i m very inexperienced with the ready nas world so cannot quickly answer any of these questions.
I have a ready nas NV+ version 1 which is running 4.1.10.
I have 2 drives in the machine now replaced drive slot 1 with a new 1TB drive and then left the second drive in place which is called backup.
Not really sure what raid is and how I determine what configuration i have? - I think you might be confusing shares with disks.
IF you did the normal ReadyNAS setup, then you are using XRAID. With 2 disks installed, this means your two disks are mirrored. Everything written to the NAS is written to both disks simultaneously. The disks work together so that your data is preserved even if one of them fails.
Log into frontview (https://nasname/admin), and see if the home page says "Volume C: Online, X-RAID..." on it. That will confirm if you are using XRAID.
Then click on the "volumes" button (middle left), and then "volume settings". See if it says "Status: Redundant" or not.
Let us know if you are seeing those things... - this is my front view
It shows the disks to be full but when you log in via CIFS or AFP they are only showing about 420gb on them? - Ok. So putting in a new disk didn't change anything because (1) the disks are mirrored (2) when you replace one disk, the NAS simply resyncs (restores the mirror from the other drive).
(1) Have you checked each share in the share listing, to see how much information is in them?
(2) Do you have the recycle bin enabled for any of the share? Look at "share listing", select "CIFS" for each share, and scroll down until you see the recycle bin checkbox
(3) Have you ever backed up your Mac with Time Machine to the Duo? - i have checked all of the share listings and only have approx 420ish GB in them on that disk.
I have checked and do have recycle bin enabled on the CIFS shares for both media and also backup shares. so my assumption is media is my drive with 1TB capacity and then backup is the mirror with the same capacity. thats why i can see the same on both?
I have backup and checked my backup sparesbundle and thats only 60gb
Trying again:you have two mirrored disks. So "that disk" is a meaningless concept. You have one data volume (C) which is both disks together. If either disk fails, all your data continues to be available.Phantome46 wrote: i have checked all of the share listings and only have approx 420ish GB in them on that disk.
Absolutely not. The mirror is not visible to you. If you have 420GB in Media, and another 420 GB in backup, then that is ~840GB all together.Phantome46 wrote: so my assumption is media is my drive with 1TB capacity and then backup is the mirror with the same capacity. thats why i can see the same on both?
You might want to empty them.Phantome46 wrote: I have checked and do have recycle bin enabled on the CIFS shares for both media and also backup shares. - right so there is a chance that I have media and backup on the same 1 tb drive meaning its full!
So does that mean I could delete the whole of the share called backup and then just keep media in place?
Stephen B would team viewer allow you to connect to my machine and have a little look just for clarity?
All the files you can see are mirrored on both drives. So if you copied your media files twice (once into media and once into backup) then you actually have 4 copies of each file, not two.Phantome46 wrote: right so there is a chance that I have media and backup on the same 1 tb drive meaning its full!
So does that mean I could delete the whole of the share called backup and then just keep media in place?
In that case you should delete the duplicates in the backup share. You should of course have a backup, but that ought to be on different device (like a 1 TB USB drive for instance).
Well, I am not a Netgear support person, just a user. So its probably best not to do that.Phantome46 wrote: Stephen B would team viewer allow you to connect to my machine and have a little look just for clarity? - StephenB,
Thank you for you assistance so far its been very useful. I have attached a copy of my desktop for you with what I see when I open up my readynas through CIFS or AFP.
As you can see I have a share call backup and then a share called media. both contain a carbon copy of each other. my understanding is that when i add a file into media then it replicates on backup. I always that thought that the shares were accessing separate disks but I am starting to think that the backup could be deleted without loosing any information?
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