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isn't there any documentation regarding exporting and importing volumes on RN 102?
The ReadyNAS OS 6.4 Software Manual provides very little, only on how to export a volume, without any particular mention that will actually freeze everyhting.
We have already requested for an article about exporting volume to be posted on KB server.
Unfortunately, there is no import option, you may need to restart the NAS and recreate the volume and manually copy files over, or create a backup job.
If it was not successful you should still be able to see your volume in the NAS and access it.
I am thinking the problem is that it was successful, and that he didn't mean to do it.
The 6.4 software manual describes "export", but leaves off instructions on how to import (or how to recover from a mistaken export).
This is not the first time someone has made this mistake - it would be very helpful to have the rest of the story posted here until the KB article comes on-line.
FWIW, if there is no way to recover, then the feature should be grayed out until it does something useful.
Since the two disks in RN 102 were mirrored, I thought that by exporting one of them, I could copy him through one external cradle to a third disk.
But the export button recognises both of them as ONE VOLUME, and kills both of them instantly.
Then they can only be reformatted to be used, anywhere.
What you actually wanted to do was back up the volume to the USB drive - which is done on the back-up job menu.
You export volumes not disks. From the description in the software manual, the idea is that you can export a volume from one OS 6 system, so you can import/remount it on another system. But either half the instructions are left out, or the feature was never finished.
I've PM'd someone in development, so hopefully one of them will respond with a procedure to undo the export.
As per JennC, we would like to know if were you able to reboot the unit and check if the became online again? We are working on a better user manual that also includes the features that were added in the latest Firmware 6.4.1.
Our 6.4 user manual has been updated with much detailed information about Volume Export. Please have a look 🙂
I paraphrased this earlier. It only tells half the story - it leaves out what you do after you've successfully exported. And in this case, what you do if the export was a mistake.
so the normal thing after the export operation (which I accidentaly initiated), would be the disks geting inside the RN and being 100% functional with all the data and same shares?
