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RN104: ghost “NG-8TB-Seagate” volume (RAID unknown) Inactive/Unprotected
I have a ReadyNAS RN104 that’s working fine from the data point of view, but the volume configuration seems corrupted and is generating constant volume health alerts that I cannot clear. I’m hoping someone familiar with the ReadyNAS OS 6 config DB can advise on a safe way to remove the ghost volume entries without wiping any data. Hardware / firmware: • Model: RN104 • OS version: 6.10.10 • Disks: • sda: 2 TB (NG-WDRED-2TB-1) • sdb: 6 TB (NG-WDRP-6TB-1) • sdc: 3 TB (NG-WDRED-3TB-2) • sdd: 8 TB (NG-8TB-Seagate) – recently replaced a failed 3 TB Symptom: In the web UI → System → Volumes I see 6 volumes even though I only have 4 disks. The top four are green JBOD volumes with data and look healthy: • NG-8TB-Seagate (JBOD, ~7.27 TB, ~2.64 TB used) • NG-WDRED-3TB-2 (JBOD, ~2.72 TB, ~1.17 TB used) • NG-WDRP-6TB-1 (JBOD, ~5.45 TB, ~4.28 TB used) • NG-WDRED-2TB-1 (JBOD, ~1.81 TB, ~0.2 TB used) Below those, there are two blue entries with 0 data and “RAID unknown”: • NG-WDRED-3TB-1 (0 data, 0 free, RAID unknown) • NG-8TB-Seagate (0 data, 0 free, RAID unknown)Netgear Readynas NVX (Buisness)
I just bought the device for 30 euros and have managed to install the latest official firmware (4.2.31) with Root SSH and fixed the TLS issue. Now I am wondering moving onto flashing something more modern, like Alpine Linux x86. I was wondering if this is possible, advisable and what issues might arise. I have ordered a UART TTL to USB adapter and ask if I would need anything else for this. I appreciate all kinds of feedback. Thanks in advancedAntiVirus 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 SSHing in and trying "freshclam" does not work either: I get "WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!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 PaulNetgearNAS 102 File Recovery
Hi. I have an older NetgearNAS 102, two-bay NAS drive set up as RAID 1 with 2 x 3TB drives. I'm trying to recover some folders and files from the drives. I had snapshots set up for a while but not any more. I have tried a piece of software called Hetman RAID Recovery and I can see the folders and files I previously deleted, but I'm asking here if anyone has any suggestions for how I can access and recover those files without having to part with $130+ dollars. I can remove and connect one drive to my Win-11 PC via a SATA to USB interface, and I have access to a Mac if there's another Linux way of doing things. Hope springs eternal!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.
