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This morning I got up as usual. I let the dog out, got a cup of coffee, and woke the computer to check email.<\/p>\nThis morning I got up as usual. I let the dog out, got a cup of coffee, and woke the computer to check email.<\/p>\n
Up to this point everything is normal. I\u2019m not feeling all that great, and I was thinking that it would be nice to take the laptop out to the living room where there\u2019s some cuddle space and the dog would likely curl up beside me.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before doing that, I checked the backupstatus, because I\u2019ve got the laptop plugged into a hub that provides an ethernet connection. If you disconnect, it makes the next backup have to clean up the files that were interrupted and it doesn\u2019t take that long to let the machine finish its task.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s when I discovered that there hadn\u2019t been any backup since yesterday at 4PM. Then, since inquiring minds want to know, I asked why. The computer said there\u2019s no backup disk.<\/p>\n
Hmm. I know there is a backup disk so somebody\u2019s got some splaining to do.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I go check on the NAS device in the closet. It\u2019s running, but the drive indications are all wrong. There\u2019s no error or warning per se, but the NAS is hammering on 2 drives and not responding to commands. The NAS is also not appearing at the address that it\u2019s supposed to for me to access its control interface.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I try a \u201csoft\u201d power down the NAS appears to accept that command but never completes the execution of the command. I do a hard power down. Knowing full well that whatever is going on is probably bad.<\/p>\n
I power the NAS back up and now I\u2019m greeted with all the drives being normal but there\u2019s a little flashing status light. That light is usually solid. I go back to the computer and find that the NAS is still not at the address it\u2019s supposed to be, nor is it broadcasting that it\u2019s available. After scanning a bit I found an IP address that appeared to be the NAS. I logged in to the control console only to find that the NAS thought I\u2019d moved drives from another NAS, and that I would have to update the NAS software to accomplish this.<\/p>\n
Ahh I\u2019m beginning to see the likely problem. The NAS tried to update its software and the update went horribly wrong. I guess I\u2019m lucky that the machine still had some clue what it was, but what about my 10TB of data? What about the Porn?!?<\/p>\n
Well there\u2019s no path around, I must go forward. I tell the NAS that the 5 drives contain data and they are to be preserved. Then I tell the NAS it can update to the latest version of software. I didn\u2019t want to do this\u2026 I\u2019ve been holding off on updating to the latest (read that as completely redesigned) version of the NAS software because I just didn\u2019t feel like working my way through the headache.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve got data from the other half on that NAS that I\u2019m still sorting through and there is no need to complicate matters with a completely different NAS operating system where I\u2019ll have to rework permissions, connections, and applications.<\/p>\n
My plan was to do this update when I was done with the other halfs business.\u00a0<\/p>\n
However, since I have no choice, I click \u201cProceed\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The next screen from the NAS says, \u201cFormatting system volume\u201d OH SHIT!!!!!<\/p>\n
Does that mean the area that the NAS uses to store the OS, OR did I just flush all my data?<\/p>\n
Well the helpful countdown to completion said I\u2019d know in 9 minutes.<\/p>\n
For the next 9 very long minutes I used the time honored prayer of IT workers everywhere.<\/p>\n
\u201cSHIT SHIT SHIT FUCK SHIT FUCK SHIT FUCK FUCK FUCK!”<\/p>\n
After 10 minutes the NAS came back online with a brand new OS and as an added bonus all the user accounts and been wiped. Yea! But the data appears to have remained intact.<\/p>\n
So apparently my IT Prayer was heard, and answered, by a benevolent AI somewhere.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the good news. The bad news is that I get to reconfigure the NAS and work my way through a new operating system where everything is moved and some features are gone entirely.<\/p>\n
Yea!\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve fired up a set of utilities designed to ensure drive integrity to make sure my data is in good shape. I\u2019ll have to configure around the utilities doing their job to reconnect my NonAdmin account to the data. Oh look, the User Accounts, Groups, and Permissions controls are all different\u2026 Greeaaattt!<\/p>\n
I have a headache that would stop Godzilla, I think I\u2019ve got some sinus thing happening and I really may not have the patience for this…<\/p>\n
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This morning I got up as usual. I let the dog out, got a cup of coffee, and woke the computer to check email. Up to this point everything is normal. I\u2019m not feeling all that great, and I was thinking that it would be nice to take the laptop out to the living room … <\/p>\n