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Title: iSCSI Target disappeared
Post by: BlazeBlade on September 06, 2014, 03:07:29 AM

Hi Guys,

All my iSCSI target are gone. I turned my NAS on today and there are no Targets anymore.

Does anyone one how to recover files from them and why that happened?

Thanks!
Marty

Title: Re: iSCSI Target disappeared
Post by: ivan on September 06, 2014, 03:54:30 PM

A little more detail would help.

I just spent the last 5 minutes logged on to our DNS-345 to try and find what you are talking about and nowhere did I find any mention of iSCSI targets.  Either your DNS-345 is different to ours or we are having a misunderstanding of terminology.

Maybe I should ask, were these targets there before you switched your NAS on and if so where exactly?

Title: Re: iSCSI Target disappeared
Post by: BlazeBlade on September 07, 2014, 12:44:56 AM

hmm...This is pretty detailed if you use iSCSI.

Under Disk Management you have to configure iSCSI targets to make the LUN and disk space visible to the host. iSCSI is available since firmware 1.03

Those targets are wiped after a restart. They were fine for some time but now gone.

Title: Re: iSCSI Target disappeared
Post by: ivan on September 07, 2014, 03:21:33 AM

Thanks, that explains that then.  Our test unit is one of the very early A1 series with firmware as supplied, now I suppose I had better consider updating the firmware.

Is there any compelling reason to update the firmware considering the unit we have is being used as a replacement for our old DNS-343 and we don't use any of the add-on packages?

Title: Re: iSCSI Target disappeared
Post by: BlazeBlade on September 07, 2014, 11:10:28 PM

In case someone else has similar issues. I just created those iSCSI targets with the exact same name and boom they are all back. Weird. It also picked up the right size of the drive.

Just check the changes and features from the change log and you can decide if you need those features. But always keep in mind "Never change a running system". :)

Title: Re: iSCSI Target disappeared
Post by: ivan on September 08, 2014, 01:19:25 AM

That sounds as if something didn't initalise correctly when your unit started - most probably a timing problem (something started a little slower so the next thing didn't get started).

I tell my people here 'if it isn't broken then don't fix it.  I have gone through the change logs when each new version came out and don't see anything there that warrants updating.