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Rescue from failing drives #24146691
My 5-year old NV+ recently showed "Kernel panic" on the display and was inaccessible through Windows Explorer, Frontview etc. It did not respond to the power button but after pulling the plug I managed to reboot it. It resynced and I was then able to reach Frontview and run diagnostics. It passed all diagnostics except for the two original Seagate 1Tb drives, which are running in redundant X-RAID mode. The drives in bays 1 and 2 have 679 and 2127 reallocated sectors respectively, so I am assuming they are likely to fail imminently. Disk_smart.log reports drive 2 is "failing now" and "drive failure expected within 24 hours". So I have powered the ReadyNAS down and ordered 2x WD 2Tb red drives (as recommended elsewhere on the forum) to replace the Seagates, plus a 2Tb WD My Passport for USB back-up of the ReadyNAS, assuming I can rescue it.
My question is: What is the least risky sequence of rescue actions to protect my data? Plan A would be to pull drive 2 first and replace with a new drive, on the basis that drive 1 is the least sick so least likely to fail to resync. Once synching to the first new drive is complete, I would repeat the operation with drive 1, job done. Is it safer to do each swap in powered down state? Or, (Plan B), should I first plug the USB drive and back up everything to that - perhaps that operation is less stressful to the HDDs than resyncing? Or is there a better plan I haven't thought of? This is the first time I have attempted any drive swapping, so I'm stepping on eggshells. Obviously I am concerned that the whole setup might crash losing my data. Unfortunately, I have not been backing up the NAS, so have left my data rather vulnerable (lesson learnt!) Thanks for all and any advice (please assume minimal knowledge of ReadyNAS).
My question is: What is the least risky sequence of rescue actions to protect my data? Plan A would be to pull drive 2 first and replace with a new drive, on the basis that drive 1 is the least sick so least likely to fail to resync. Once synching to the first new drive is complete, I would repeat the operation with drive 1, job done. Is it safer to do each swap in powered down state? Or, (Plan B), should I first plug the USB drive and back up everything to that - perhaps that operation is less stressful to the HDDs than resyncing? Or is there a better plan I haven't thought of? This is the first time I have attempted any drive swapping, so I'm stepping on eggshells. Obviously I am concerned that the whole setup might crash losing my data. Unfortunately, I have not been backing up the NAS, so have left my data rather vulnerable (lesson learnt!) Thanks for all and any advice (please assume minimal knowledge of ReadyNAS).
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- Using the "internal" setting at least I am now getting confirmation in FrontView that the message was sent, after I relaxed the firewall settings slightly, but nothing has appeared in my Inbox or spam folders so far. I expect I have overlooked something simple and will persevere. I might try gmail - have avoided the clutches of G****e so far. But thanks so much for helping me sort the main problem. Over and out for now!
- The internal one may be blocked by your ISP.
The custom settings is what are needed.
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