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Replacing ReadyNAS RN312 Drives
Hi all,
I have the RN312 running 2x 2TB drives in RAID 1. Recently one of the drives failed and it is running in degraded mode. As both disks are quite old I have ordered two replacement disks. Just wondering what the best method would be moving forward.
1) Somehow backup entire NAS data and config, install and configure both new drives, restore data and config from backup; or
2) Replace failed drive and rebuild, then pull the other old drive and replace, rebuild again.
I am not fussed either way, a bit of downtime is no problem. Just wondering what the best (recommended) option would be out of these (or if you have another), and if there's any links to achieve this.
Many thanks.
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Either way you should ensure you have an up to date backup.
You can do either method, but if you have the time option 1 would be best, especially if you are moving to higher capacity disks.
Some filesystem changes can only be obtained by creating a new volume. The improvements are not essential but still nice to have.
Thanks. Same capacity but different make/model drives. Also I am running firmware 6.4.1.
I have a backup and I am manually running it right now. However I've never actually had to restore anything from it... so is there a guide already out there to perform a backup/restore in this situation? i.e. config and data?
Seeing as everything is actually working at the moment, I would be able to completely reconfigure and re-do the backup first if I could be doing it a better way.
Also, just to confirm, yes I have gone over these links:
http://kb.netgear.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/29788
Can't see where it says how to restore data/config. Everything just shows how to backup.
You can do a config backup (note this won't backup app configuration) under System > Settings > Configuration Backup. If restoring this, you should install apps you were running before the reset first then restore the config from the config backup.
As for restoring data from backup, you would do backup jobs in the other direction with the backup as the source and the share on the NAS as the destination.
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