-----Original Message----- From: main [mailto:main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Chris Walker Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 10:10 AM To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [ALUG] Recovering a NAS
In 2009 I bought an Edimax NAS from Scan.co.uk and it's worked fine since, albeit with a change of hard drives.
However over the weekend it wouldn't power up cleanly. Neither of the hard drive lights would come on and it wouldn't come ready. I also couldn't communicate with it in any way.
I got in touch with Edimax and they suggested doing a reset on it. That at least allowed me to communicate with it and it came ready, but it said that the discs weren't installed correctly although it did show the partitions.
I removed both drives (WD 1TB Red drives in RAID1) and using mdadm, I can see the contents of disc 1 and it all looks ok.
If I buy another NAS box, is there any way I can simply put these drives in it and expect it to work, or should I expect the new box to have a different arrangement somehow of formatting?
What I'm seeking to avoid is loads of copying and moving of files.
Are there any recommendations from people here as to a small (I don't want huge amounts of storage and I power off the box when not used)
NAS?
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I think as you suggest, any other NAS enclosure would likely have a different setup and the disks would not just transfer across. It is my understanding that much of a RAID drives configuration is actually on the drive itself with only some of it in the controller. Personally I would look on eBay and try to locate an identical unit which I would expect to 'just work'. However, if the worst comes to the worst and you are forced to copy huge tranches of files and are looking for a way to feel sure that the source and destination might actually match, plus you can put up with using Windows for a while ( assuming your disk formats are compatible ), I would thoroughly recommend trying a fabulous tool that must have been designed with us in mind. It is called 'Beyond Compare' by Scooter Software and I have been using it every day for over a decade. You can easily see what is on the source and destination disks side by side and copy all or part of you disk, at once or in recoverable stages and even compare multiple files and folders byte by byte to ensure all is well. See here :- http://www.scootersoftware.com/
Good luck,
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On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 10:47:17 +0100 "Noel Galer" noel@abasys.co.uk wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: main [mailto:main-bounces@lists.alug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Chris Walker Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 10:10 AM To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [ALUG] Recovering a NAS
In 2009 I bought an Edimax NAS from Scan.co.uk and it's worked fine since, albeit with a change of hard drives.
However over the weekend it wouldn't power up cleanly. Neither of the hard drive lights would come on and it wouldn't come ready. I also couldn't communicate with it in any way.
I think as you suggest, any other NAS enclosure would likely have a different setup and the disks would not just transfer across. It is my understanding that much of a RAID drives configuration is actually on the drive itself with only some of it in the controller. Personally I would look on eBay and try to locate an identical unit which I would expect to 'just work'. However, if the worst comes to the worst and you are forced to copy huge tranches of files and are looking for a way to feel sure that the source and destination might actually match, plus you can put up with using Windows for a while ( assuming your disk formats are compatible ), I would thoroughly recommend trying a fabulous tool that must have been designed with us in mind. It is called 'Beyond Compare' by Scooter Software and I have been using it every day for over a decade. You can easily see what is on the source and destination disks side by side and copy all or part of you disk, at once or in recoverable stages and even compare multiple files and folders byte by byte to ensure all is well. See here :- http://www.scootersoftware.com/
This machine dual boots but while Windows disc management can see the drive and the partitions, it can't see the files whereas, without any extra software, linux can both see and administer any and all of the files so that's my preferred option, and why I'm here ;-)
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Noel Galer