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Chances of Recovery
Hoping to (hopefully) find some sliver of light at the end of what appears to be a very dark tunnel at this time. It appears that I have lost two of the four drives (in a very short time period) ...
StephenB wrote:Yes, though of course it could be more than one external drive.
Though like Sandshark I back up my main NAS to other NAS.
I moreso meant an external to get things running again. You're talking redundant storage with redundant storage to back it up as well? Not a horrible idea at all. Suggestions, if not NetGear, for another NAS? I would like to expand this current setup, once things are resolved, likely to 8tb or 10tb drives.
Chappy316 wrote:
You're talking redundant storage with redundant storage to back it up as well? Not a horrible idea at all. Suggestions, if not NetGear, for another NAS? I would like to expand this current setup, once things are resolved, likely to 8tb or 10tb drives.
ReadyNAS have been scarce for some time, and there is quite a bit of speculation here that Netgear is exiting the NAS business. Netgear hasn't said one way or the other. In any event, you should research other vendors now, since many of the new ReadyNAS that you will find are overpriced. But I only own ReadyNAS, so I can't offer specific recommendations on other brands.
I use rsync backup myself, and most NAS out there support rsync.
Yeah, I agree with StephenB on this. I would be vary of buying a ReadyNAS at this stage.
On the top of my head, I would say look at: Synology, QNAP and Asustor. As for backups to another NAS, Rsync should do the job and it is a natively supported Linux application. You will find that feature on any Vendor NAS to be honest.
First thing I am grabbing, once I get in touch with L3 support, is going to be a large enough external to get all of the data off of here. Then I will look at replacing the existing drives so I can get it back up and running. After that I will consider another NAS. I actually looked at Synology before but this ReadyNAS 3130 basically fell my lap. Is it possible to rsync it with an external, even if its only temporary? That would give me some peace of mind.
Speaking of L3 support, do either of you ( StephenB or rn_enthusiast ) have a recommendation of a way to get in touch with them, or someone trustworthy with similar abilities, to try and move forward with the cloning process? I did the chat support last night and who ever I spoke with was struggling with their English. I told him I wanted to speak with someone in L3 support and bump my problem up to the next level and I got back very vague responses and the chat equivalent of being hung up on. *facepalm*
FWIW, RAID and true (independent) backup have different purposes. While RAID does add some protection against data loss, it's more about convenience -- the ability to continue to use the device in a degraded state while that degradation is dealt with instead of having to wait for restoration from another device. True backup needs to deal with things RAID may not, especially hardware failure of the NAS itself. Depending on the criticality of the data, it may also need to deal with theft, fire, etc.
But RAID doing it's job depends on proper monitoring. Even when you get your email alert situation resolved, you really should be "checking in" with the NAS UI periodically.
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