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How Can I look at an Old Raid Volume to recover files Ready NAS 314
Could Someone please suggest the best way for us to look at an old Raid 1 volume from our RN31400 to recover files.
4 months ago we had volume 1 in our Raid-1 setup of 2 x 3000GB fail and we ended up replacing both drives with Seagate Enterprise NAS 8TB drives. We rebuilt volume 1 from the remaining 3TB drive and once complete then changed out that drive.
All has been working well until today when we inadvertently were attacked by the Locky Encryption Trojan. The individual computer that had the email on it has been heavily encrypted and it also has made it onto our NAS drive but only into a small number of the folders.
I still have the original 3TB drive with the majority of the data still on it in its original form.
Is it possible to access this original drive in say a dock or similar or even load it into one of the 2 x vacant slots (3 or 4) in the NAS so as to just copy across the required data to bring us back up to where we need to be. We realise that we will lose a small amount of data from over the last couple of months but can retrieve this from backups etc. but it is the historical data that we would like to retrieve.
Re: How Can I look at an Old Raid Volume to recover files Ready NAS 314
Thanks Stephen for your response.
I will try your suggestions with the USB 3 enclosure first to see if I can just copy off what I need to the Raid Volumes. if that should fail then I can always go back to putting the old drive back into the NAS as per your original suggestion.
Re: How Can I look at an Old Raid Volume to recover files Ready NAS 314
One option is to power down the RN314, remove the disks (labeling them) and then insert the disk from the old RAID volume. The NAS should boot. Note that if you have updated the firmware after you switched to the new drives, the NAS will install the new firmware on the old disk. After you have the data, just power down, restore the current drives, and then boot up again.
Re: How Can I look at an Old Raid Volume to recover files Ready NAS 314
Thanks for your response and yes that will work for us. I will just have to find time to shut the system down to do so.
I was hoping that there might be a way of doing it with the new volumes in place so as to just copy the required data across from the old drive to the new array. I guess life was not meant to be easy though.
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Re: How Can I look at an Old Raid Volume to recover files Ready NAS 314
Thanks JennC,
I was hoping to possibly see if I receive any other suggestions before closing off this thread. If none are forthcoming in the next few days I will then close it off as resolved.
I was hoping to possibly see if I receive any other suggestions before closing off this thread.
You could maybe put the drive in a USB 3 enclosure, and connect to the USB port. I don't know if the NAS will mount it, but if it doesn't you could go in ssh and manually mount it.
Re: How Can I look at an Old Raid Volume to recover files Ready NAS 314
Thanks Stephen for your response.
I will try your suggestions with the USB 3 enclosure first to see if I can just copy off what I need to the Raid Volumes. if that should fail then I can always go back to putting the old drive back into the NAS as per your original suggestion.
