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Letsencrypt/certbot experiments with ReadyNAS OS 6.5.0 on RN202
See also: LINK Install letsencrypt/certbot on Readynas OS 6.5.0 (Debian Wheezy): Docs and inspiration from: certbot netgear_581268 netgear_592613 # apt-get install nano (or any other editor you like) # cd /opt # mkdir letsencrypt # cd letsencrypt # wget https://dl.eff.org/certbot-auto # chmod a+x certbot-auto # ./certbot-auto --help all # apt-get install libaugeas-dev (to prevent error: Unable to import libaugeas!) # service apache2 stop # ./certbot-auto certonly --standalone-supported-challenges tls-sni-01 -d fqdn.yourdomain.com (to use port 443) 3 Automatically use a temporary ... - Enter your email address - Read terms of service # cd /etc/frontview/apache # cp apache2.pem apache2.pem.orig # cp ssl.conf ssl.conf.orig # nano ssl.conf add the line "SSLCertificateChainFile /etc/frontview/apache/chain.pem" below line "SSLCertificateFile /etc/frontview/apache/apache2.pem" save ssl.conf # rm apache2.pem # cat /etc/letsencrypt/live/fqdn.yourdomain.com/privkey.pem >> apache2.pem # cat /etc/letsencrypt/live/fqdn.yourdomain.com/cert.pem >> apache2.pem # cp /etc/letsencrypt/live/fqdn.yourdomain.com/chain.pem chain.pem # service apache2 start Disadvantage: The key is only valid for 3 months and an automatic renewal is somehow complicated. Maybe a script can help :-) Test with: SSLLABS SSLSHOPPER
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chrhei
May 25, 2016 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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RN104 not booting after 6.4.0 and other fun issues
I realise there's a million threads on this already, but my issues appear to be unique so I thought I'd share and hopefully find a fix. Like many others here, my RN104 is having a lot of trouble after the FW 6.4.0 upgrade, and appears to be stuck on "Booting..." when powered on. The power button is blinking, and the ACT light blinks for approximately 10-15 mins after power up before going solid blue and showing no further activity. The power button continues blinking. I left the ReadyNAS on for about four hours today after I left for work this morning, and it still didn't get past "Booting..." However, the ReadyNAS does appear in RAIDar for a short time after power up, while the ACT light is blinking. During this time, the data volume is still accessible (but very slow, possibly because the "quota check" talked about in the release notes and on the forums is being performed?). After the ACT light goes solid, it disappears from RAIDar and I can no longer access the data. This is the full timeline of my nightmare. 1) Upgraded yesterday afternoon to FW 6.4.0 via the web interface. It appeared to install and boot fine. 2) Noticed before I went to bed that night that the ReadyNAS had locked up and become inaccessible. I could not access the data volume or the admin page. It did not respond when I pressed the power button. 3) I pulled the power cord, reconnected it and powered up the ReadyNAS again. This is when it started becoming stuck on "Booting..." and displayed the symptoms I mentioned earlier. 4) I attempted a USB recovery, following these instructions from another thread. 5) The USB FW install was successful, but it still did not get past "Booting..." after it reset. I left it like that and went to work. 6) I returned four hours later for lunch and it was still on "Booting...". I power cycled the ReadyNAS again and once again left it. 7) I came back another four hours later. Still on "Booting...". 8) I tried an OS Reinstall from the boot menu, following these instructions. It still didn't work. 9) I tried the USB recovery one more time. It still didn't work and the ReadyNAS is still stuck on "Booting..." My RN104 has 4 x 4TB Seagate HDDs in Flex-RAID, with about 9TB of data. It's my home media server. Nothing on it is irreplacable but it would take weeks to recover everything I had, a process I am incredibly not keen on. For the love of God, Netgear, please fix this. Either find a way that we can downgrade safely to a working firmware, or release a new one that doesn't have these bugs. I would really like to have access to my media collection again...
freakout
Oct 30, 2015 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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Huh. New 428 cheaper than increasing 316 storage
I just had an odd epiphany that I thought I'd pass along. I've got a RN31600 home theater movie/music server with 6 6TB drives configured as XRAID6. I've passed 80% storage usage and loading today's 30GB+ BluRay movies eats up storage. So I looked into increasing storage with 8TB drives, but of course that will require replacing all 6 drives. The cost of doing this is signficant and as I looked into other alternatives I had a sudden realization: It will actually be cheaper to buy a brand new RN428, use the current 316 drives, and then buy and add 2 more 6TB drives. Not only will the cost at today's prices be 35% to 40% less, I'll upgrade to much newer ReadyNAS technology, and even get a larger increase in storage (6x6TB data vs 4x8TB). Win, win, win! I'm sure this is obvious to many of you folks, but like I said it was a bit of an epiphany to me.
klidster
Jul 22, 2018 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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Tutorial 8TB drives installed in Readynas duo v2
I'm not sure where to put this, but remembering the hassles I went through back when I upgraded from a 1TB drive to WD 4's, I know there will be others who need this information. I had previously had difficulty getting the readynas v2 to work with Western Digital Red 4TB drives, but eventually succeeded. So this time around, I decided to try to go to their 8TB drives. In the WD 'MYBOOK' usb desktop storage devices, lies a 8TB Western Digital drive which is essentially a HItachi helium drive. Different MYBOOKS have different versions of the same drive. However, I wanted this one based on the suggestion I received from someone else who had already taken the drives out of those enclosures simply because they were 25% cheaper than purchasing bare drives. They are currently available on Amazon with the WD80EZZX and at BestBuy with the WD80EFRX drives inside. Anyway, just putting an 8TB drive into one of these enclosures doesn't work. For some reason, the duo v2 won't install on some of the larger drives, only a 1TB drive. So, that's what I used to start. Once the 1tb drive was set up, here's what I went through to get the 8TB drives to work. First, DO NOT USE THE WIZARD IN THE WEB INTERFACE! If you change the password with this wizard, you will wind up in a perpetual loop of trying to get to the web interface because it will not accept either the default 'password' password NOR the new one that you created, and you'll have to reset your duo v2 back to factory defaults and have to start all over again. So, I REPEAT, DO NOT USE THE WIZARD. You can make the changes via the regular methods on the web interface and it will work, but not with the wizard (Bad wizard!). Anyway, here we go. First, if you have a router that will automatically assign an ip address for your device and you wish to use your NAS with a windows computer on your network, I'd advise going into the advanced settings in the router and assigning a static ip address for your NAS BEFORE connecting it to the router. Otherwise the router will assign an address dynamically, and that address can easily change and all of a sudden your NAS will disappear from your windows explorer. Unless your network users are knowledgeable enough to map a network drive, they won't have access. Ok. next. Connect your duo v2 to power and internet access. If there is not a 1tb (or smaller) disk in the left drive slot, put one in. Turn on the nas. Let it set itself up. This can take anywhere from a half hour to a few hours. I don't know why. Just follow progress in the Raidar. Now if the firmware version isn't the latest, do this: Shut it down. Reset nas to factory defaults. (turn off, hold reset button in while turning back on while still holding reset button until all front lights light up, release reset button, press BACKUP button until only the light for disk one is lit. Now press the reset button again. That will reset the NAS. Now just leave the NAS alone to set itself up again. Watch in raidar (I use Raidar 6 versions with this duo v2); it will appear to be doing nothing, but it is downloading the new firmware and setting itself up. LEAVE IT ALONE! After it is done setting up the initial small drive, shut it down, and reboot. You should have a working NAS with current firmware. Then follow the below procedure. Remember, DO NOT GO TO THE WEB PAGE OR USE THE WIZARD. That could put you back into the perpetual attempt to sign on loop again, and wind up having to reset the NAS again to factory defaults and you might have to start all over again. It takes about an hour for it to set itself up. The raidar will go through a period where the status is blank, then the firmware will be blank. Eventually the status will read healthy and the firmware will appear. Leave it alone overnight. Turn it off in the morning, wait a while, then turn it on again and let itself 'wake up'. Leave it alone. The next day, turn it off and follow the procedure below. Install the first larger drive into the right bay while the NAS is turned OFF. Reboot. The NAS will now create a 1TB (or whatever size smaller drive you initially put into the NAS) mirrored RAID 1 partition on your 8TB drive, making the system redundant. Don't worry, you'll get your 8TB drives to work. Watch the progress with Raidar. It might take a day to complete, I play it safe and wait until the next day to make sure I don't interrupt the NAS. The next day, turn the NAS off. Remove the smaller drive from the left drive bay. Turn the NAS back on, and it should show in Raidar that the system is no longer redundant. Now plug in your other new 8TB drive into the left drive bay WHILE THE NAS IS 'HOT', TURNED ON. It will now create a 1TB partition on the new drive, making the system redundant, with both of your drives in RAID 1 with a 1TB partition. This could take a few hours or a day. So I leave the NAS to do it's thing and come back the next day. Next day, check to make sure the system is healthy. Then turn off your NAS again. leave it for a short time. Turn it back on; it should recognize that there is unused space on your 8TB drives, and expand the partitions to about 7.4 TB. On one of my installs of this, it took two reboots to achieve the final expansion of the drives. But at present, the Readynas duo v2 is working fine with two Western Digital WD80EZZX drives. Questions you may email me at DLBergmann@yahoo.com, as I'm not a moderator here and only come to read once in a while. Enjoy your jumbo size NAS. Remember, back up your data. Raid is not a substitute for a back up. If you can't afford another device to back up to, at least burn your most valuable data onto an optical disc. At least TRY to save your date. Remember, disc failure isn't an IF, it's a WHEN. Also, it's a good idea to keep your NAS behind a uninterruptable power supply, as they also guard against current spikes which can kill your NAS.
nightfly44
May 06, 2017 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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ReadyNAS OS 6.5.1 now available!
Release notes for 6.5.1 are available here. This firmware is available for the following systems: arm (RN102 / RN104 / RN202 / RN204 / RN212 / RN214 / RN2120) x86_64 (RN312 / RN314 / RN316 / RN516 / RN716x / RN3130 / RN3138 / RN3220 / RN4220)
mdgm-ntgr
May 18, 2016 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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The genie+ Marketplace is no longer available on RND2000-200NAS
So here we go again. Running product, go to update it, still stuck on firmware 5.3.11. Client needs Wordpress on the device, just pop on apps, and make it happen. Oh, wait, this is an old one, need to do the Genie crap. Oh, yeah, The genie+ Marketplace is no longer available Oh, yeah, Great.... So Lets see, Netgear abandoned the service, long after the firmware updates were abandoned. Apparently Netgear is just taking the Microsloth approach of screw it, let them pay more money to upgrade to a new product....when the lifetime of the product is obviously not over...because it is still running. Total failure, if you abandon a product, then months or years later abandon the external functionallity that you actually paid for, at least re-write a final firmware to remove the options, or allow for a library of "non-supported avaliable apps". This is absoulty the last straw for me. I am going to find a vendor to make me a hell of a deal for me so I can deploy QNAP to every small business I have....just off the top of my head, I have 14 clients on some leve of a ready nas. I am done. Then I will buy one extra QNAP, backup the clients data, build their new QNAP with the drives that have minimal hours on them and deploy the QNAP, restore data. Final straw with this nonesense.... Like if I have an XP box that I need to run for some reason, and the vendor removed a drive that was/has been avaliable for years, just becasue they abandoned the product.... Good luck with it.... Next it will be replacing all my WIFI routers with another vendor. You are dead to me now....thanks Netgear.
GGITech
Jul 31, 2015 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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Large deployment of Orbi Pro, ReadyNAS and Managed Switches Dianbai #CaseStudy
Case Overview User Industry: Education User Profile: 183 secondary and high schools in Dianbai, Maoming The project was a collaboration between NETGEAR and Guangdong Qijiao Technology to create a state-of-the-art recording and broadcasting platform for 183 schools in Dianbai County. In this case study, the NETGEAR products are mainly for use with the Spaceflight Teaching video broadcasting system for regular educational recording and broadcasting. They helped Dianbai District implement school-to-school and class-to-class connectivity, and build a solid infrastructure for regular video classrooms. Each elementary school in the district deployed an M4100-26G core switch and a GS750E access switch to implement school-to-school networks. In video classrooms, an Orbi Pro Wire-Free 3-band WiFi set was deployed to meet the requirements of e-school. Matching with Spaceflight Teaching's regular recording and broadcasting system, each elementary school deployed an RR2304 as local storage and regularly backs up the RR2304 data to the RR4360S, which acts as a centralized backup for disaster recovery. – Download the Dianbai Case Study to learn more. Technical Solutions: Tiered storage and data protection - NETGEAR RR4360S, RR2304, and RR2312 provide mass storage space with recording and broadcasting requirements and implement backup for disaster recovery. NETWORK backbone - NETGEAR's M5300, M4100, and GS724T WiFi – Orbi Pro Insight Enabled Access Points Products Used: RR4360S x 2 units RR2304 x 65 units RR2312 x 18 units SRK60 x 150 sets M4100-26G x 365 units GS724T x 215 units GS750E x 33 units M5300-28GF3 x 8 unit
BretD
Dec 20, 2018 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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6.7.1 release notes
The 6.7.1 release notes are a bit thin, and don't really explain too much. Is there somewhere that gives more information on the bulletpoints?
Laserbait
May 08, 2017 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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ReadyNAS 104 system hanging frequently after 6.4.0 upgrade
Hi All, I have a pretty new ReadyNAS 104 system (August, 2015). Currently populated with 3 x 4TB WD RED drives, and a single Segate 3TB drive (to be upgraded once funds allow). Since upgrading to FW 6.4.0 I have found that the system will hang whenever a maintenance process is performed - Scub, Balance or Defrag, which I had scheduled previously. I have now disabled all the schedules and left the system alone, but overnight it has hung again, after approximately 72 hours of normal operation. It responds to pings, but the GUI will not load, it has dropped off the network via all protocols, fails to allow you to SSH into it and pressing the power button (Once, twice and three times) has absolutely no effect. The only option is to pull the plug. Also, after every hang, forcing a power pull, the system starts a complete resync of the volume, which always starts at 25.10% and takes about 4 days to complete over the 15TB of raw storage. Obviously this is putting undue strain on the disks everytime it is happening. Happy to provide logs to any friendly Netgear Admins, and any advice from any of you lovely people would be gratefully received. Cheers, Tipster
tipster71
Oct 27, 2015 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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*HELP* updated my readynas 102 to firmware 6.4.0 today and System Clock is wrong
My system clock defaults to 1969 after updating to 6.4.0 When changing date back to today's date hitting the apply button resets to 1969 again. Oh no... Now what?
human102
Oct 08, 2015 Place Use your ReadyNAS
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