QNAP Death

Mike H · Post by **Mike H** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 9:15 pm

Hmmmm ....

simon · Post by **simon** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:21 pm

QNAP resurrected!!!!

Chris and Dave were spot on the money

. I swapped to the Maplins PS and the QNAP was fine. So whilst the knackered one read 12V with my DMM it obviously can't provide enough current. Just need to find a replacement from somewhere now.

Result! Thanks for everyone's help - with the PS led working I would never have suspected it was the culprit.

Dave the bass · Post by **Dave the bass** » Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:25 pm

Whahey! Nice one Simon.

DTB
(QNAP repair specialist!)

Mike H · Post by **Mike H** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:37 am

The Stratmangler · Post by **The Stratmangler** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 9:14 am

Nice one Simon.

I've had PSUs indicating correct voltage/no current worth mentioning before.

At least the QNAP is not broken - seems like a cue to ensure that your NAS gets backed up regularly.

simon · Post by **simon** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:17 pm

Indeed Chris. It gets backed up "occassionally" but really, it needs a pukka solution. Is RAID the way to go if I were to do it properly?

Ray P · Post by **Ray P** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:19 pm

simon wrote:Indeed Chris. It gets backed up "occassionally" but really, it needs a pukka solution. Is RAID the way to go if I were to do it properly?

No, RAID provides resilience but is not a substitute for a proper backup, which needs to be kept physically remote from the system you're backing up. RAID will not help you if your house is burgled or burns down.

Ray

Ali Tait · Post by **Ali Tait** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:21 pm

Drobo is good if you don't want any faffing about. Does it all for you. You should be able to get a second hand one on the bay for a reasonable price.

simon · Post by **simon** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:25 pm

Ray P wrote:No, RAID provides resilience but is not a substitute for a proper backup, which needs to be kept physically remote from the system you're backing up. RAID will not help you if your house is burgled or burns down.

So there's no substitute for the discipline of regular manual backups?

Post by **Nick** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 12:48 pm

It doesn't have to be manual, but no.

If you have another machine with enough disk space, I would consider using rsync to create a regular mirror of at least your music.

ed · Post by ed » Thu Oct 14, 2010 1:12 pm

Is Simon running a Linux machine now???
Is the qnap accessible? via telnet?
does the qnap not have a backup portal via the web interface?

I'm not certain but I believe rsync is still not quite so straigtforward on windows platform..

If you are on Windows Simon you might look at synctoy..

just a thought, sorry if I'm stepping on toes or confusing...

simon · Post by **simon** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:32 pm

No, no Linux box. Maybe one day when I have more time and money

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The QNAP has a number of features such as web server, and if I really knew what I was doing I might set something up. But I don't so I keep all the ports closed behind the firewall. Ignorance isn't cool, but better safe than sorry I guess.

I probably ought to have a go with synctoy but I can't help thinking it's just more complexity when all I want to do is periodically make a copy of what's on the NAS drive. At least with copy and paste I know what it's doing. But I'm only a hop, step and a jump from a luddite so please educate me.

Post by **Nick** » Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:36 pm

Sorry, stand corrected, I thought the qnap was running linux

ed · Post by ed » Thu Oct 14, 2010 11:49 pm

Nick

doncha just lurve the crossed wires thang..............

I think(I'm not 100% sure) that a qnap is linux, but they are self contained. I also thought that Simon runs windows on his other machines so he would have to access the qnap from windows, unless he can telnet in to it to get the linux interface...........

sooo his best(easiest) option would be to run synctoy to backup the qnap from the windows platform..........

btw I let my brain out for a holiday while posting before.....my linkstation is two ext3 partitiions and one ext2...so the qnap is likely to be similar......I guess I was so used to seeing the linkstation shown as ntfs...but I suppose that is what samba does to fool windows.......

later

simon · Post by **simon** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 9:07 am

Well, I didn't understand most of that but I can confirm I use Windows to talk to the QNAP

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