HELP - Restore from Single Disk
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2020 7:27 pm
Hello ASUSTOR owners,
Had the following setup on my 6404
- 3 x 2 TB RAID 0
- 1 x 6 TB Single Disk ext4 formatted
Backup/Copy Job (internal backup) configured and running from RAID0 to Single ext4 formatted Disk.
All well, job was running fine and data was written die the single disk
Did restructure the NAS this morning.
Shutdown the NAS and took out the single disk
Made restore to factory and replaced the harddrives
- 1 x 515GB SSD
- 2 x 4 TB in RAID0
AND i really thought i could use the single disk where my backup job was copied each day to restore the data.
So i used a SATA/USB Adapter and wanted to copy the data back before placing the disk back to the NAS.
BUT... the DISK is shown as empty/ASMedia and i cannot see any data on the disk.
Used the usb connector and plugged into my macbook and it does not see the data on the disk as well.
I really thought/hoped that a single disk can be read by using an USB adapter and copy then the stuff back to the internal disks.
Does the NAS somehow write a different filesystem to disk even when its formatted as GUID/ext4?
Any tip or idea how i could get my data back?
I think when i plugged it back into the NAS it will initialise and empty the drive...
Thanks for your help!
cheers armin
Had the following setup on my 6404
- 3 x 2 TB RAID 0
- 1 x 6 TB Single Disk ext4 formatted
Backup/Copy Job (internal backup) configured and running from RAID0 to Single ext4 formatted Disk.
All well, job was running fine and data was written die the single disk
Did restructure the NAS this morning.
Shutdown the NAS and took out the single disk
Made restore to factory and replaced the harddrives
- 1 x 515GB SSD
- 2 x 4 TB in RAID0
AND i really thought i could use the single disk where my backup job was copied each day to restore the data.
So i used a SATA/USB Adapter and wanted to copy the data back before placing the disk back to the NAS.
BUT... the DISK is shown as empty/ASMedia and i cannot see any data on the disk.
Used the usb connector and plugged into my macbook and it does not see the data on the disk as well.
I really thought/hoped that a single disk can be read by using an USB adapter and copy then the stuff back to the internal disks.
Does the NAS somehow write a different filesystem to disk even when its formatted as GUID/ext4?
Any tip or idea how i could get my data back?
I think when i plugged it back into the NAS it will initialise and empty the drive...
Thanks for your help!
cheers armin