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Working with Synology support

December 13, 2014 Jim Leave a Comment

After a day, Synology support got back to me and asked me to send them a set of system logs. I did. After another day, a got an email saying that the file system had some problems probably, in their opinion, from ungraceful shutdowns associated with power loss. They wanted … [Read more...]

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Failing to expand a Synology volume

December 4, 2014 Jim Leave a Comment

It's been almost 24 hours, and I haven't heard anything from Synology's support team. I thought I'd try some things on my own. Maybe one of the packages is keeping the system from expanding. I shut down the media server: Then I shut down the time backup … [Read more...]

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Trying to expand a Synology volume

December 3, 2014 Jim Leave a Comment

The Synology array finally finished its scrubbing operation. It took almost three days -- actually longer than a rebuild. After scrubbing, I tried once more to expand the volume: The storage manager showed that it was confirming the parity, but with no progress … [Read more...]

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Still more Synology problems

November 29, 2014 Jim Leave a Comment

This last 4TB disk almost finished its rebuild, then the progress indicator went backwards. I waited. It usually takes about 2 days for a rebuild. This time it took closer to three. Then, as before, the NAS box stopped serving files. Rather than restart, I shut it down from the … [Read more...]

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Another Synology hang

November 26, 2014 Jim Leave a Comment

The repair of the array ended just like the last time -- with a hang. The Synology NAS box stopped serving files. I went into the admin console and saw that it thought it was still repairing:   Went I looked at the volume, it said repairing, but the progress … [Read more...]

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