read readynas volume using usb port windows 10

[swope1221]

HI everyone, my readynas 102 is having some issues, and I want to reset it to factory defaults.  I have tried to back up the data to an external usb 3.0 drive, but the backup crashes and never finishes.  I have tried using sync software, but nothing works.  The data is intact on the two 3 tb volumes i have installed in a raid 1 config, but since i can't back it up or sync it if I factory reset all my data is lost.  I have a usb enclosure for the hard drives I have installed in the readynas, but I know I can't simply plug it in a usb port and read it on my pc.  What can I do to extract the data?  I am on firmware 6.4.0 if that matters.

Thanks for your help.

Eric

[StephenB]

Have you tried connecting the USB drive to the PC, and using drag/drop to copy the data?  Or use teracopy (which can verify).

[swope1221]

Hi Stephen, I have, but I believe the drives are formatted inside the readynas such that they are not readable by just plugging into a usb port on a pc.  I believe the are formatted btrfs, which windows can't natively read.  I didn't know if there was a program I could download to windows so I can plug in and read the data from the network drives, in the same way I plug in a thumb drive and it reads it.  

[StephenB]

The external drive wouldn't be formatted as btrfs.  It might be ext, but you could reformat it as NTFS and drag/drop the data from the NAS to the external USB drive.  It's possible this might crash (as the backup does), but it is worth a try.

It is possible to read the RN102 internal drives, but you'd need to be running linux.  I believe an arch LiveUSB drive supports btrfs - though I haven't tried it myself.

[swope1221]

Thanks Steven, I forgot to mention I did try the drag and drop too, but the Readynas hangs with this too.  I was hoping to attach one of the internal drives to a pc using the usb enclosure and read the info directly from it, but as you mentioned I'm not sure what to use.  I saw some program from diskinternals posted when I googled it, but I'm not sure it will work. http://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/features.shtml

[StephenB]

 Linux Reader won't work with the RN102.

[swope1221]

Yeah, I just tried it. Do you know of anything that will let me read the drives if I connect them to a usb port on the pc?

[StephenB]

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@swope1221 wrote:

Yeah, I just tried it. Do you know of anything that will let me read the drives if I connect them to a usb port on the pc?

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No.  You'll need to be running linux.  As I said above, I think the arch usbLive setup will work.  Since you'd be booting off a USB, your windows OS will remain intact.