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Reset without losing data
Right, quick question: I am having the admin page not accessible problem that many have reported. I have been in this situation for a long time, however as the shares on the network were accessib...
irishandrew wrote:
Will this process then proceed to copy the data on drive 2 back to drive 1 restoring the system with my data, or is it more likely to interperate it as a new drive and format it thus losing the data?
You'll lose your data. The sync is from the already installed drive to the newly installed drive. You cannot sync in the other direction.
How slow is the copy? Another option would be to use paid support - they can possibly resolve the problem remotely, and at least let you speed up the backup.
Hi Stephen,
That's a shame, albeit what I suspected. The backup is copying at a rate of 1.5 - 2.0MB/s, with 1.04TB to copy, so it'll be somewhere in the region of 144hours minimum... Think I may abandon the backup and try and think of another way to get the data off.
Paid support is not really an option - I don't see the point when it is something I can resolve myself - will just have to find another way or wait out the backup.
Thanks for your help.
Cheers,
Andrew.
irishandrew wrote:
Paid support is not really an option - I don't see the point when it is something I can resolve myself - will just have to find another way or wait out the backup.
I take your point, and if there is no urgency then you could just wait. If the data is at risk though (which it might be), then the delay might force you into data recovery later. Which is a lot more expensive than per-incident support.
I don't believe the data is at risk - the discs are healthy and only a year old - it's just the ReadyNAS OS that has caused problems with the admin page. This has been almost from new (about 2 months old).
I have sped things slightly (now 3MB/s by transferring it over the network to my desktop, however I will cancel and retry when I can attach my extra drive by eSata rather than USB - this should help the bottleneck, just need to find a cable.
Cheers,
Andrew.
You could be right, I was just wanting to make sure you considered the possibility. The NAS could end up bricked (for instance if the OS partition is filling). However a full OS partition can be fixed by support w/o data loss.
irishandrew wrote:
I don't believe the data is at risk.
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