Hi all,
New here, and to NAS in general. I just bought a second hard drive and put it into the NAS device. For some reason, I changed my single drive to RAID 1, but this mirrored the first drive (which I know now is what it was supposed to do). I actually just wanted to expand my hard drive capacity rather than mirroring for backups. So my question, is there a way that this can be reversed or a potential other solution to this?
Reversing RAID
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Re: Reversing RAID
Hi,
A.D.M. (as other NAS) use a specific partition architecture ...
each disk is formatted with 4 partitions (ex. sda have sda1, sda2, sda3 and sda4)
Part 1 is for boot (grub)
Part 2 is a Raid1 for A.D.M. configuration (as volume0)
Part 3 is a Raid1 for swap
Part 4 is a Raid1(or more) for your data with a file system ext4 or now brtfs
EVEN in single mode (one disk) ... it's configured as Raid 1 for 3 Partitions .
Not easily, in a true, complete Linux ... it's possible for Raid1 to remove a disk ... but for A.D.M. I don't know AND IN ALL CASE a backup is MANDATORY.
... so do a backup using A.D.M. tools or manually.
So ask support ...
possible scenario (but to be honest, I use it years ago ... so not sure it's always possible)
... have an USB disk box (usb3 is better)
... plug out the second disk of your actual Raid 1
... ... try to read the data (re-assemble the Raid on another Linux system or VM and mount it (ext4 or btrfs) and verify data is accessible (part 4 only))
if all is ok got next step, if not
... plug second disk using USB box
... format it and save data (Raid1 of the NAS is in degraded mode but can be read for backup) ... if some folder are not necessary ... ignore it
next step
... mount the new disk (larger)
... initialize the NAS (new A.D.M.) and reinstall APKG
... ... mount the USB box (re-assemble again Part 4 Raid) and copy tback data to the new disk
... ... OR restore your A.D.M. backup ...
BUT be sure the good solution is to ask the support ...
Philippe.
A.D.M. is a Linux ... but more like an embedded one versus a standard Linux distribution (Ubuntu, Debian, etc. etc.)jacknjill88 wrote:Hi all,
New here, and to NAS in general. I just bought a second hard drive and put it into the NAS device. For some reason, I changed my single drive to RAID 1, but this mirrored the first drive (which I know now is what it was supposed to do). I actually just wanted to expand my hard drive capacity rather than mirroring for backups. So my question, is there a way that this can be reversed or a potential other solution to this?
A.D.M. (as other NAS) use a specific partition architecture ...
each disk is formatted with 4 partitions (ex. sda have sda1, sda2, sda3 and sda4)
Part 1 is for boot (grub)
Part 2 is a Raid1 for A.D.M. configuration (as volume0)
Part 3 is a Raid1 for swap
Part 4 is a Raid1(or more) for your data with a file system ext4 or now brtfs
EVEN in single mode (one disk) ... it's configured as Raid 1 for 3 Partitions .
Not easily, in a true, complete Linux ... it's possible for Raid1 to remove a disk ... but for A.D.M. I don't know AND IN ALL CASE a backup is MANDATORY.
... so do a backup using A.D.M. tools or manually.
So ask support ...
possible scenario (but to be honest, I use it years ago ... so not sure it's always possible)
... have an USB disk box (usb3 is better)
... plug out the second disk of your actual Raid 1
... ... try to read the data (re-assemble the Raid on another Linux system or VM and mount it (ext4 or btrfs) and verify data is accessible (part 4 only))
if all is ok got next step, if not
... plug second disk using USB box
... format it and save data (Raid1 of the NAS is in degraded mode but can be read for backup) ... if some folder are not necessary ... ignore it
next step
... mount the new disk (larger)
... initialize the NAS (new A.D.M.) and reinstall APKG
... ... mount the USB box (re-assemble again Part 4 Raid) and copy tback data to the new disk
... ... OR restore your A.D.M. backup ...
BUT be sure the good solution is to ask the support ...
Philippe.
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Re: Reversing RAID
ADM only supports several ways to expand volume capacity: https://www.asustor.com/en-gb/online/Co ... ?topic=352. So the answer of your question should be no.
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Re: Reversing RAID
Sorry for my late reply. Thank you both for your answers!