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While connected via ssh and performing an rsync backup I managed to delete the /bin folder on from the device rather than from the external HDD, however the copy on the external HDD is available.
How can I copy get a copy of the /bin folder back onto the device.
Notes:
The external HDD is connected to one of the USB ports on the rear of the device
I have ssh sessions open on as root, 2 from a Windows 10 station, and one from a linux box running linuxlite 3.8
Performing the OS reinstall from the boot menu worked, now the admin menu is reporting a drive in predictive failure (it wasn't before and I only knew via email alert). My understanding it that the drive is hot swappable, please correct me if I am wrong as I do have a replacement on hand.
In that case you may need to use the boot menu to do an OS Re-install. Though depending how much the system is messed up doing a factory reset and restoring from backup may still be the best way forward.
Though you just need to do anything that creates the /.os_update file (it can be empty)
Even something like
1 > /.os_update
might work. It'd give an error but it'd probably still create the file.
The file would reside in / as indicated by the command I gave. It can be empty and will automatically get removed as part of the OS Re-install (to avoid triggering it again on each subsequent reboot).
The path for that file is deliberately pretty much as simple as it gets. We know that we should always be able to write to that location unless the root volume has somehow gone read-only or has some other equally serious problem.
Apologies, I should have known that. I am not a linux expert and doing my best, I am also as you can imagine tired/stressed, am very appreciative of your quick responses and assistance in helping me.
Have since lost my SSH sessions due to an unexpected reboot and therefore unable to complete your request of generating the os_update file unless there is another way.
Have since lost my SSH sessions due to an unexpected reboot and therefore unable to complete your request of generating the os_update file unless there is another way.
@mdgm-ntgr also suggested doing an OS reinstall from the boot menu, which should do the same thing. Have you tried that?
Performing the OS reinstall from the boot menu worked, now the admin menu is reporting a drive in predictive failure (it wasn't before and I only knew via email alert). My understanding it that the drive is hot swappable, please correct me if I am wrong as I do have a replacement on hand.
My understanding it that the drive is hot swappable, please correct me if I am wrong as I do have a replacement on hand.
If you are using XRAID with at least two drives, or a FlexRAID mode with redundancy then you can hot swap the drive, and it should resync.
It'd be good to update your backup (at least of critical data), since the array is unprotected during the resync.
Running X-RAID2
I REALLY appreciate all the help and support, thank you all so very much!
I had backed up all the data to an external drive connnected to one of the rear USB ports, althought the degraded array made that process a lot slower than I would have liked.
