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RN104 raid volume recovery
I understand this could be a duplicate post but I tried looking several other posts on Netgear community and could not find a solution so I am posting my problem here. I had a NAS (RN104) with 4T...
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Did the expansion finished before this happened? it would be best if you can send us the full logs on a shared link. You can PM it to us.
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Hello Marc,
Thanks for looking into this. Unfortunately logs are not available now. There was a requirement of shares availability and someone reset the whole NAS device and rebuild the OS on new drives.
However when I had discussed with the person who was working on it and I am completely sure that expansion was not completed. When the new drives were added, it started re-sync process which was interrupted and never completed. I recently discovered that someone disabled the x-raid also (hoping to create a new volume on new added drives) and since then it has this issues.
Right now I have those two drives with me which were in x-raid (raid1) configuration earlier. I am hoping that I could mount the md raid volume in Linux and access the data from there.
I can provide more outputs from that drive if that helps. Sorry I have only limited data to provide here.
Thanks,
Varun
So your previously RAID1 was expanded to RAID5 but did not complete right? since Flex-RAID was used and it was manually added. Then there was a reset if I understand correctly.If you have a Windows PC trying out ReCLAIMe to access the data would be suggested. If you are using Linux then you should be able to mount the RAID using CLI.
Here are some Community post that might help
https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2265348
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/300122/mount-a-single-hard-disk-that-was-part-of-raid-1
DDRescue might also be of use. Haven't use much of Linux to be honest but I'm sure other members will be able to help as well.
Hope this helps!
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