ReadyNAS RN3138 unable to destroy Second Volume
I need your assistance because I suddenly could not access the files on my NAS 3138. I replaced the HDD in Bay 4, but it suddenly shows red in all bays, and I am unable to read the drive. Please assist with resolving this. Attached screenshot with this. Later, I replied with a new empty HDD in bay 2, but it shows black and is unable to delete the additional data, showing 0A complete mess after RAID failure...
Okay, I'm very confused and would really appreciate some help from the community here. This is going to be a long post I'm afraid but I thought it good to write as much detail as I can so that perhaps someone can help me figure out what's happening. I have a pair of ReadyNas 214 units which I have had for years and they've been wonderful. I've changed the names and folders here for security reasons :) NAS1 sits in another building and serves as a backup, linked by ethernet. NAS2 is here in the office and all work and project files are stored there. Every night an incremental backup of NAS2 is sent to NAS1 with a full one monthly. Lovely… Recently NAS2 had a failed RAID drive (it has 2 drives). I quickly made an emergency full backup to NAS1 in a new folder just in case. The second drive then bravely failed after I'd replaced the dead one and was resyncing the RAID (bad luck!). Attempting to add a new second drive failed in all kinds of ways. I had to then wipe the two drives, reset NAS2 to factory conditions and repopulate. Now, in all this 'something' ended up different to my original setup. (Have you ever seen the movie "Event Horizon"? we're looking at that kind of scenario!) :) 1: FOLDERS AND SHARES =================================== I now have a volume on NAS2 called ABC. To repopulate NAS2 I copied all my data via windows explorer from NAS1 to: \\NAS2\ABC If I look on the SHARES area in the web interface for NAS2, I can only see the HOME FOLDERS and a WORK share - NO ABC folder. If I look at NAS2 in windows explorer, I see everything: -ABC -- : (a bunch of system folders) -- : WORK -HOME -WORK There appears to be TWO WORK folders/shares visible in windows explorer but they're the same - ie, if add a telltale file to the ABC folder, I see it in both instances. I can't see the other folders in ABC in the shares area on the NAS2 web interface! Just the WORK and HOME folders. What happened here? Where did I go wrong when I repopulated? 2: BACKUPS (THE BIG PROBLEM) ========================== The BIG problem is my backups. I made a new backup job to send to a folder in the root of NAS1 called BACKUP I set it up to run, and it appeared to do FULL backup to the new folder in the first run as expected, taking a couple of days. It had created a folder called \\BACKUP\ABC and what looked like all the files were there. It made a folder called \\BACKUP\ABC\WORK but that was EMPTY! I can see a folder called \\BACKUP\WORK which has some folders with the latest date in them that I know haven't been touched in ages and that isn't fully synchronised. I tried creating a test file in the root of WORK on NAS2 and running my backup. The test file doesn't appear anywhere on NAS1. I used RSYNC mode, followed the instructions on the ReadyNAS website and I'm utterly perplexed! OS 6.10.10 on both units.RAID6 resync after drive failure: Data Degraded message
I have a ReadyNAS 528 that is set up for RAID6 using X-RAID, purchased in 2018. Someone else set up the system but they moved on, so I have been maintaining it for the past several years. I had 8 drives installed and one failed a month ago, so I removed it. I figured that running the Balance maintenance operation should move things around to back everything up appropriately but I am still getting a "data DEGRADED" message. I have also tried Scrub and Defrag followed by Balance but that didn't fix it either so clearly something more involved is required. I tried RTFM and searching this forum but wasn't able to find what to do after a drive failure or info about this error message. I want my data to be backed up but mostly I want the machine to flashing its all caps message at me.RN104 data-0 inactive since April, still stuck after PSU fix - need assemble advice
Hi all, I have a ReadyNAS 104 (firmware 6.10.10) with a 4-bay X-RAID2 setup: two Seagate IronWolf 4TB drives and two WD Red 3TB drives. The 3TB baseline across all four disks forms a RAID5 volume called data-0 (8.17 TB), and the extra capacity on the two 4TB drives forms a separate RAID1 volume (931 GB). What happened, as best I can reconstruct from the logs: On April 27, 2026 at 11:01 AM, the system log shows "Disk in channel 4 (Internal) changed state from ONLINE to FAILED." That drive is one of the two WD Reds. SMART data shows a burst of about 878 read errors on that drive's data-0 partition earlier that same morning, right at the tail end of the partition. No reallocated, pending, or uncorrectable sectors before, during, or since, on any drive. - Alert emails have apparently never worked on this box ("Alert message failed to send" recurs in the logs going back to 2016), so nobody knew about the April failure. The volume was presumably running degraded on 3 of 4 drives from that point on. - On September 13, 2026, the external power adapter started failing, causing all four drives to drop and reconnect erratically, which pushed the NAS into booting its factory-default recovery image. - I replaced the power adapter (correct NU90-9120700-I2, 12V/7A). The NAS now boots its normal OS again, all four physical drives are detected correctly, and a separate small mirror volume auto-repaired and finished resyncing on its own. - data-0, the 8.17 TB volume with almost all my data, has never been auto-assembled by mdadm across two separate boots since the PSU was fixed, even though the smaller pools repair themselves automatically. The admin page shows "Remove inactive volumes to use the disk. Disk #3,4." What I've verified so far: All four drives pass SMART self-tests clean, zero reallocated, pending, or uncorrectable sectors. - I have not clicked "Remove inactive volumes," Format, New Volume, or X-RAID anywhere. - SSH itself fails to start on this box right now (error code 15002030001, and "Connection refused" on an actual attempt). - I have full log bundles from before and after the PSU replacement if useful. What I'm hoping for: I found a very similar solved thread here on this forum (RN104, disk kicked as non-fresh after a power problem, fixed via tech support mode and mdadm --assemble --really-force --readonly). Before I touch anything, I'd appreciate help confirming whether that's the right first step for my logs, and the correct device list for my array specifically. Since SSH won't start, I understand the path in is tech support mode via the boot menu and Telnet, unless there's a better route. Thanks so much in advance. Link to that similar solved thread: https://community.netgear.com/discussions/readynas-use/readynas-104---cannot-access-data---remove-inactive-volumes-to-use-the-disk/2454089
RN214 OS6.10.10 Snapshots
I found this post from 2021, but I am not seeing what I expect from snapshots. I have had this config for a long time, let's assume >2Y. I expected a monthly snapshot to be retained, as the daily>weekly>monthly promoted snapshots are cleared out - specifically the last bullet point above. However, what I see is snapshots back to the start of Aug'26: I am a bit confused that promoted monthly snapshots are not being retained; I have 5.75TB / 14.54TB free, and my NAS is powered on 24/7 - although I do have disk spindown enabled. Am I misunderstanding the way promoted snapshots work?error with rsyn 7077010012
Dear community, I am reaying to setup with my readnas102 a remote connection to server to backup, using the remote rsync but I get teh error above, and as I run a test with putty to connect to server it works fine, it is just form the nas I am not being able to connect, any suggestions?
System: V+12 voltage in enclosure Internal is out of spec.
I started getting the following warning messages last night to my logs on my Ultra2 which is functioning as a backup to my other primary NAS: System: V+12 voltage in enclosure Internal is out of spec. (10.77 V). anyone know what I can do about this or what I should be concerned about? I saw an older post from 2017 where it was suggested by Sandshark to get a new external brick which that other user did but did not solve his issue and we never heard from him again on it. Is my Ultra2 fubar now?
