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ReadyNAS NV+ | Rebuilding X-RAID Array Exposed
Hello there; I have the following situation: I have a ReadyNAS NV+ with 4x2TB Seagate Barracuda. Disk3 went bad. The unit was ‘booting up’ forever and the reset button was pressed in order to try to have it boot-up properly but it didn’t. Then I replaced the damage disk3 with a brand new one (exact same) It did say the unit was re-syncing and the led on disk3 was flashing. After a very long time Raidar show green checked marks on all drives. However, on the unit itself disk3 green light kept on flashing like if sync was still going on. I could access the admin page from Raidar button but the home page says “Volume C offline” I was reading that the unit should be able to work with only 3 drives, I shutdown the unit and remove disk3. Bootup again and same scenario: I could access the admin page but still says “Volume C offline”. After calling NETGEAR support and sending my logs, they told me that it appears that the X-RAID array was corrupted but it was most likely recoverable. I am planning to pay the $75 to go with the next support level and have them fix it for me, but I thought it would be very helpful for the community to understand more in detail how they are going to do it. My plan is to ask first to make the system booting properly with only the 3 good drives, but could they realistically rebuild the array with only 3 disks if they can recover a ‘kind of’ proper backup of the array configuration (or superblock I am not sure) that was created when the 4 disks were all working properly. I have installed the openSSH add-on and I’d like to see where would be those precious proper configuration files. Also, I thought someone could explain us in detail what to do with them and how to rebuild the X-RAID array from them. Of course, I am trying to recover the data on my ReadyNAS and not try to reformat and start all over from scratch.... Thank you.8.8KViews0likes5Comments