Why my nas netgear Ready NAS 104 is re-synchronizing

i tried to send it trough private message

let me know

about the emails?

it is configured but hte test give a message of error

smtp.gmail.com

port 465

On the ReadyNAS

• User:  your full email address, including the gmail.com
• Password: your gmail account password
• Email Provider: gmail.com
• SMTP Server: smtp.gmail.com
• SMTP port: 465
• Use TLS: checked

Google account settings:

• 2-Step Verification should be off
• Less Secure App Access whould be on.

working 

next step is just to remove the older hd with a new one and make a second bck

the issue was that i switch off the cable during the resilvering. now it is working perfectly

my aim now is to have a second bckp. I dont' know if like the first an usb hard disk sdd or a cloud one

does scrub and defrag have any sense to be scheduled? how much in a week?

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carlocki wrote:

does scrub and defrag have any sense to be scheduled? how much in a week?

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Personally I schedule one maintenance function per month (cycling through all 4 three times per year).

Though the value of defrag is very debatable.  It can reduce free space, especially if you have snapshots enabled.  So although I do run it every four months, I neither recommend it nor recommend against it.

Yes, once every four months (as part of the schedule).  They don't do any harm on my system, but I can't really say they do any good either.

There are some situations where defrag is a bad idea - for instance, if you have a live database in a share with snapshots. 

Scrub is going on...

everythig is done

i scheduled

2 times a month a scrubs

2 times a month a defrag

2 times a year a balance

and 1 times a month a test

i dedicated a part of the archive to recent files where I make snapshot

the rest of the archives is stopped and backuped

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carlocki wrote:

i scheduled

2 times a month a scrubs

2 times a month a defrag

2 times a year a balance

and 1 times a month a test

 

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doing 24 scrubs and 12 tests a month will put a big workload on the disks.    I'd do them much less often.

reduce to 2 test a year

and 4 scrubs a year

the system is really under controll

with sequoia trees I am also veryfing files, what i still need, copied files, old shared stuff and removing them.

for me the system is perfect

opss i changed the password

now it does not work

any suggestion?

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carlocki wrote:

opss i changed the password

now it does not work

 

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 The admin password?

Does "not work" mean that

1. the NAS won't boot
2. the files aren't accessible
3. you can't log into the NAS admin ui???
4. something else?

the forum today is very slowly

today i jsut log on 192.168.1.100/admi with the old password

solved completely everything

now i bought a new iron wolf to sobstitute disk volume 2

in this way i will have 2 old barracuda and 2 newest iron wolf

the barracuda are outside for 2 backup devices with 2 different part of the archives.

whici is the best way to substitute an hd in x raid config?

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carlocki wrote:

 

whici is the best way to substitute an hd in x raid config?

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Do a hot swap.  That is, remove the old disk and insert the new one with the system running.  Be careful that you replace the correct disk.  If you do accidently replace the wrong one, you need to wait for the resync to complete before trying to fix it.

The array has no RAID protection during this process, so Netgear does recommend making sure your backup is up to date before manipulating disks. FWIW, I agree with their advice.

there is no correct disk, I am doing this because I want to renew all deives trough years. now i am 1 on 4.

I am using old disk as a backup

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carlocki wrote:

there is no correct disk, I am doing this because I want to renew all deives trough years. now i am 1 on 4.

 

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The "correct" disk is just the disk you intend to replace.

For instance, if later on you intend to replace disk 2, but accidentally pull disk 1 by mistake, you need to be careful on how to recover from that mistake.  You can't just immediately reinsert the original disk 1.

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carlocki wrote:

I am using old disk as a backup

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Are you saying that you will put it in a USB adapter/dock?  If not, can you explain?
 

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The "correct" disk is just the disk you intend to replace.

 

For instance, if later on you intend to replace disk 2, but accidentally pull disk 1 by mistake, you need to be careful on how to recover from that mistake.  You can't just immediately reinsert the original disk 1.

Barracuda are green IRon wolf have red label

 

Are you saying that you will put it in a USB adapter/dock?  If not, can you explain?

 Exactly, is not a proper behaviour?

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carlocki wrote:

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Are you saying that you will put it in a USB adapter/dock?  If not, can you explain?

 Exactly, is not a proper behaviour?

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Yes, it is.  Some people try to do something else, which doesn't work.

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carlocki wrote:

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Barracuda are green IRon wolf have red label

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Yeah, but you can't see the label until after you pull the drive.

I think we can move on.  I brought this up only because there are folks who've posted here after accidentally pulling the wrong drive.  Most didn't handle that situation (often they just immediately replaced the drive, and then pulled the one they intended).  If you do that, you generally lost your data volume.

ok, except volume 4 that is IRON WOLF the other three are barracuda, If I am correct in X-raid I can move one of the 3's and replace it with a second new formated Iron Wolf right? in the hot mode you define before

please confirm this. I will be very worry about removing a barracuda and not the only iron wolf newer

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carlocki wrote:

ok, except volume 4 that is IRON WOLF the other three are barracuda, If I am correct in X-raid I can move one of the 3's and replace it with a second new formated Iron Wolf right? in the hot mode you define before

please confirm this. 

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Yes, you can hot-swap the barracudas one at a time.  Just wait for the resync to completly finish before hot-swappng the next.

As I mentioned before, best practice is to make sure you have an up-to-date backup before doing the hot-swaps.

do i have to format the disk before swapping it?

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carlocki wrote:

do i have to format the disk before swapping it?

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No, you want it to be unformatted.

I would recommend testing it with Seatools first though.  I do the full generic test, followed by the full erase test (in the advanced menu) myself.