ReadyNAS314: likely failing
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This is to document for myself and should anyone else need.
Unable to access my storage shares the last bit, rebooting does not resolve. Rebooting takes upwards of four hours to complete.
While had been able to access, now cannot. GUI does respond, but none of the user accounts seem to work. Am able to sign in local as root.
While no errors were on the status page when I was able to access, suspect the system is reaching end of life. End of product life happened some time ago.
Am able to interact with SYSLINUX from the unit directly, it has HDMI and USB ports.
However I ‘lose’ response when I plug in any USB drive.Am able to ssh, so the system isn’t totaled just yet. I can view the shares, and can ping.
While not ready to build a Nextcloud instance on the Proxmox system yet, I am thinking I should be able to recover the data.
Next step:
Create share
Mount share to NAS
Cli copy data from NAS to another computer as backup -
@gjacobse said in ReadyNAS314: likely failing:
This is to document for myself and should anyone else need.
Unable to access my storage shares the last bit, rebooting does not resolve. Rebooting takes upwards of four hours to complete.
While had been able to access, now cannot. GUI does respond, but none of the user accounts seem to work. Am able to sign in local as root.
While no errors were on the status page when I was able to access, suspect the system is reaching end of life. End of product life happened some time ago.
Am able to interact with SYSLINUX from the unit directly, it has HDMI and USB ports.
However I ‘lose’ response when I plug in any USB drive.Am able to ssh, so the system isn’t totaled just yet. I can view the shares, and can ping.
While not ready to build a Nextcloud instance on the Proxmox system yet, I am thinking I should be able to recover the data.
Next step:
Create share
Mount share to NAS
Cli copy data from NAS to another computer as backupThat would be the preferred way to move things off.
If ALL ELSE FAILS, you can likely mount the bare drives in another system and restore the array using md (mdadm). It's been a long time, but I have successfully recovered arrays removed from NAS devices by doing this in the past. Still, very very risky, last resort only deal for sure.
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It’s been a while since I did a file transfer via CLI, but it’s a starting point.
I did think about sourcing a donor system to swap drives into. But possible killing the array.
I do have a “backup” but, looks like it’s a month or so old. Likely the last one the system was successful with.
The sad part is that connecting any USB drive ‘halts’ the system but it recovers when removed. That would be one path to back up files…
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@gjacobse said in ReadyNAS314: likely failing:
I do have a “backup” but, looks like it’s a month or so old.
This is where you screwed up...
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@DustinB3403 said in ReadyNAS314: likely failing:
@gjacobse said in ReadyNAS314: likely failing:
I do have a “backup” but, looks like it’s a month or so old.
This is where you screwed up...
You know what they say about people and glass houses?
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Interesting -
Back up will continue.. But am able to access the whole of the system tonight. I've not done anything except ignore it as I've been quite tired.
I'll take it. I wanted to move to a nextCloud instance running on Proxmox anyway.. but - data recovery is a good thing.
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@gjacobse said in ReadyNAS314: likely failing:
@DustinB3403 said in ReadyNAS314: likely failing:
@gjacobse said in ReadyNAS314: likely failing:
I do have a “backup” but, looks like it’s a month or so old.
This is where you screwed up...
You know what they say about people and glass houses?
Hey I'm sure I'll have my own issue at some point.
lol
