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Readynas Ultra 6
I guess I spoke to soon. After using my NAS for a day I shut it down. The next day it would not boot. Just displays ReadyNAS. It may not have shutdown clean. I'm not sure how I got past it before but at some point I got it to the boot menu. Not now. I've tried everything I've read here. I removed the drive. Will not load boot menu. Will not boot usb recovery. Swapped Power supply. Any other suggestions? Thanks
Best way to backup root?
I am wondering what is the best or a good way to backup the root partition to another readynas backup volume, so that in the event of volume loss, I can restore my working root partition after having done all my configuration and installed various things with front view or apt, etc.. Is this even possible to backup and restore the root partition, or perhaps some parts of it? I got the build-essential installed now that netgear has their repo up, but in the future who knows if it will be up, so having my root partition restorable in some way would be helpful..if its even possible. At this point my readynas is pretty simple configuration compared to years past, so..its not that bad to just reinstall and reconfigure in the case I were to lose boot volume for some reason. But the one thing that would be difficult or maybe impossible to restore might be build-essential. I suppose there might be a way to mirror the repo? Well anyway if I can just backup my boot volume including root partition, that would be preferable I think. Not using RAID5 by the way, my boot partition right now is actually on a single non-raid SSD that is not being used for any other data storage...but I plan to switchover to having two RAID1 arrays, one for boot+storage, and another separate RAID1 for pure storage.Transfer the hard drive from a failing Readynas 312? Planning for inevitable failure..
I've got a RN312, firmware 6.10.10. I kept extras in case any failed, and I think one is on it's way. It humms a bit louder than the normal (and louder than the others I have), and caused interference with the sound from the computer. The Readynas has two 20TB Toshiba hard drives, which have functioned perfectly. I'm wondering if anyone has successfully just transferred a working hard drive from one Readynas 312 to another; would it just boot up normally? As long as the firmware matches? Otherwise I'd have to reinstall a backup to a different 312 which of course, takes f-o-r-e-v-e-r. I'll leave this up, if anyone knows the answer to this. If not, I will try it with a much smaller drive (500MB) first, to see if it's feasible. Thanks everyone. Oh, for anyone who doesn't know, the 20 TB CMR Toshiba drives work just fine. nothing special needed, just install the drives, plug the nas in, and it goes to work all by itself just perfectly, as usual. I have two others working like this one.
Power outage - RN528X does not auto-power on, causing UPS Slave errors
Early southern California winter storm, lost power for a few hours. Have the following setup: Cyberpower CP1500PFCLCDA 1500VA UPS RN528X is USB-connected to UPS and configured in RN OS 6.10.9 "Power" Settings RN528X Wake on LAN is ENABLED Power outage triggered UPS battery-low condition after 13 minutes, prompting RN528X to shut down: However, after power was restored, RN528X did not power back on. It remained powered down. According to Netgear, an OS 6 device with WoL enabled should auto-power on after a shutdown event: "When wake-on-LAN is enabled, if the unit is disconnected from AC power it will power on when AC power is reconnected." Wondering why this did not happen...? Normally, I would say "who cares"... however in my setup I have 3 other ReadyNAS OS6 boxes configured as "Remote UPS" to the RN528X. They are RN424, RN314, and RN212, all running 6.10.9 and all with WoL enabled. When the RN528X doesn't power back on, the other NAS boxes each begin complaining with this frequent message: Am I doing something wrong by using one NAS as the "Host" for UPS and the others as "Slaves"? I thought this is how it's supposed to be managed using a single UPS.AntiVirus No Longer Updating
Since 30th September, I have been getting an email from my RN214 advising me that the "Antivirus scanner definition file update failed due to download failure. Check your Internet connection." I know that the internet connection is OK because Transmission BitTorrent client is working OK. SSHing in and trying "freshclam" does not work either: I get "WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! WARNING: Local version: 0.103.7 Recommended version: 1.0.9" On the ClamAV website it says for v0.103 LTS, "DB downloads allowed until Sep-14 2025", so that is the likely cause: https://docs.clamav.net/faq/faq-eol.html Does anyone has a solution for this please? Either a way to update ClamAV on an ARM device or to fool ClamAV into still providing database updates? My RN214 is running ReadyNAS OS v6.10.9 - will "upgrading" to 6.10.10 help to resolve this? From the latter's release notes I suspect not. TIA PaulRND4000v2 (ReadyNAS NV+ v2) RND-48 won't turn on after power cut
Hello, My RND4000v2 (ReadyNAS NV+ v2) RND-48 seems dead after a power cut. The LED display and power button lights up for around 1 second when I connect the power cable but then nothing more. The power block shows a green light. I've tried the reset button at the back (30 seconds with power connected) and also tried to remove all 4 drives but always the same result. Please can anyone suggest what to try next? Could I buy a new (or find the same model second hand) NAS unit to access the array? Any advice much appreciated! Thanks, JeremyNETGEAR Mobile Broadband Driver
Hello, I’m currently using the MR1100 (Nighthawk M1) mobile router and need to reinstall the “NETGEAR Mobile Broadband Driver (V8.2.1.0)” for Windows. However, the official link (https://downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/MR1100/NETGEAR_MBB_Driver_V8.2.1.0.exe) returns an “AccessDenied” XML message. Could someone (Netgear Support or community users) please provide a verified copy or alternative official mirror for this driver? Thank you!ReadyNAS104 no data after hotswap
Hi, I had the Volume: Volume data health changed from Degraded to Dead. I hotswapped the Volume 1 today, with an 8TB drive and now the other 3 drives are showing red, and the new drive is black. (other drives are v2 - 2TB and V3&4 - 4TB) [v1 was 4 TB] It is like all the drives are now showing as new, I cannot see any data. and now the warning is Remove inactive volumes #2,3,4. I really hope this doesn't mean all the data is lost. If anyone can help it would be appreciated. Regards Craig
