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The paths for the shares listed below could not be found
My ReadyNAS NV+ v2 is reporting the following message and all of my shares have disappeared: "The paths for the shares listed below could not be found. Typically, this occurs when the ReadyNAS is u...
!!!SOLVED!!!
I found an easy solution for this problem so I thought I'd better post it here in case anyone else encounters the same issue.
mdgm checked the logs I sent over and suggested that I would need to consider purchasing data recovery which I took as them saying it was knackered and unlikely to be recoverable by normal means. As it turns out it was incredibly simple to retrieve the data myself so I'm glad I didn't listen to them and pay what I believe would have been hundreds of £$ to recover data that wasn't actually lost in the first place!
I did some research and prepared to attempt recovery myself using one or a combination of tools such as R-Studio/R-Linux, Ext2Fsd, LinuxReader, explore2fs, and a few others which I forget the name of. I didn't have any luck with these tools on Windows 7 but as I read on this thread here I might have a better chance with R-Studio for Linux: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=58709#p331553
I downloaded Ubuntu and booted my laptop with it from a USB stick. I installed R-Studio for Linux to prepare for recovery and then I directly connected the NV+ v2 to the laptop with an ethernet cable as per the useful guide here: http://readynas.sphardy.com/2010/09/how-to-direct-connect-to-your-readynas_1197.html. Amazingly, I didn't need to use R-Studio at all, I simply mounted the NAS as a drive in Ubuntu and lo and behold all of my data was there, visible, accessible and transferrable! I simply connected some USB drives to the laptop and copied all of the data to them and then did a factory reset on the NAS and then copied everything back over. Sure, the 3TB+ of data took a long time to copy (both ways), but it only took a minute of my time to select everything and copy it over and then I left it to do its thing for a few days. Had I had to recover the data "manually" from my other "backup" (i.e. lots of CDs and DVDs) then it would have taken weeks of involved work to re-rip everything. What a relief!
So if you find yourself unable to access your data and your NAS is telling you something similar to what mine was telling me (or, rather, what the logs were telling mgmt [who were very quick to try to help btw, so thanks to him/her/them]) try accessing it directly with a Linux distro like Ubuntu, you might just find you can access everything just fine from there.
I found an easy solution for this problem so I thought I'd better post it here in case anyone else encounters the same issue.
mdgm checked the logs I sent over and suggested that I would need to consider purchasing data recovery which I took as them saying it was knackered and unlikely to be recoverable by normal means. As it turns out it was incredibly simple to retrieve the data myself so I'm glad I didn't listen to them and pay what I believe would have been hundreds of £$ to recover data that wasn't actually lost in the first place!
I did some research and prepared to attempt recovery myself using one or a combination of tools such as R-Studio/R-Linux, Ext2Fsd, LinuxReader, explore2fs, and a few others which I forget the name of. I didn't have any luck with these tools on Windows 7 but as I read on this thread here I might have a better chance with R-Studio for Linux: http://www.readynas.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=58709#p331553
I downloaded Ubuntu and booted my laptop with it from a USB stick. I installed R-Studio for Linux to prepare for recovery and then I directly connected the NV+ v2 to the laptop with an ethernet cable as per the useful guide here: http://readynas.sphardy.com/2010/09/how-to-direct-connect-to-your-readynas_1197.html. Amazingly, I didn't need to use R-Studio at all, I simply mounted the NAS as a drive in Ubuntu and lo and behold all of my data was there, visible, accessible and transferrable! I simply connected some USB drives to the laptop and copied all of the data to them and then did a factory reset on the NAS and then copied everything back over. Sure, the 3TB+ of data took a long time to copy (both ways), but it only took a minute of my time to select everything and copy it over and then I left it to do its thing for a few days. Had I had to recover the data "manually" from my other "backup" (i.e. lots of CDs and DVDs) then it would have taken weeks of involved work to re-rip everything. What a relief!
So if you find yourself unable to access your data and your NAS is telling you something similar to what mine was telling me (or, rather, what the logs were telling mgmt [who were very quick to try to help btw, so thanks to him/her/them]) try accessing it directly with a Linux distro like Ubuntu, you might just find you can access everything just fine from there.
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