My DNS-321 was acting weird and slow and unpredictable after a power outage over the weekend. I've never seen it do that before, and it is on a very good surge protector, which protected everything else attached to it. I think the drives are okay, but the interface was slow and people were having trouble accessing their folders. They were either slow or just didn't open. So I Restored to Factory Default Settings from the Tools menu in hopes of maybe solving this. I did make a config file backup before I restored.
After the restore was complete and I managed to find the NAS on the network again and actually connect to it, it asked to set up the hard-drives again, which would require formatting them. I had a RAID1 setup before I restored to default settings. I CANNOT format these drives right now. They have too much important info on them. I told it to skip the hard drive configuration, but it keeps asking me whenever I log back in.
So, is there any way to just reestablish the RAID1 configuration without formatting? It's been working perfectly for years, so I'm feel confident that both drives are perfectly synced.
Or is this a scenario where I need to pull out the drive from the NAS, put it in an enclosure, back the entire thing up twice to external drives, reinsert it into the NAS, format the drives to reestablish the RAID1 setup, and then copy everything back to the drives from my backups? Clearly, this is days of work. It seems like there should be an easier way.
Please let me know. My coworkers are getting very antsy. Thank you.
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Topic: Reset DNS-321 to default settings. Don't want to redo RAID and format. (Read 5714 times)