Clicking hard drives

If they are under warranty call customer service and send them in for replacement.

Well, they are not supposed to be doing that. How much longer they last is unknown.

Do you have an open sata port? Just get a newer larger drive. Hook it up, format it and mount it. Then created shared folders on it and move data to it. After you move all data to it remove all setting in omv web-gui for the old dirves. Then shutdown and disconnect old drives.

Are current disks in a RAID??? What kind is so?

Give me results of this command:

df -h

Please put in a code box.

Probably a good idea to set up ssh, and connect via putty or something similar. You can cut and paste the output of commands from your putty session.

(Nothing to do with your HDD problem... but will make it easier to work with your OMV box)

If you push "Control-D to continue" then your OMV will boot as normal.
You can then connect via ssh and give the command tekkb asked for.

I personally got this error with two types of drives:
- external harddrives (too less power)
- internal harddrives (defective ones)

So you may be lucky if you can get some data from this drive.

Usually it is. Raid 5 is no Backup. It is only for availability of your data.
So if one drive fails, you can easily replace it and rebuild the data. If more than one drive fails than your data is no more available....

Get another Hard disk ASAP. Your drive(s) are dying and guessing that they already block a normal boot and throw out so much errors, I would suggest to replace them ASAP.

Like tekkbebe suggested, get a new drive, attach it, configure it and copy all your data over to it.

Greetings
David

Sure. You can cp it via CLI by hand either use rsync or cp. You even could do that via a cron job via the GUI.

Greetings
David

Zitat von "hermie"

Hi davidh2k,

So is there a way to do the copy within the OMV box, and not having to do it over a network to another pc ???

I frequently refer to this guide when it comes to rsync;

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2010/09/rsync-command-examples/

You can use putty to connect via ssh to your OMV box, and then use rsync to transfer data from your failing RAID array to a new drive.

Not that it is essential, but I also like to use a program called "screen" which allows you to easily detach from your putty session while leaving tasks to continue running. You can then re-attach your session when you want to check on them.

To install;

sudo apt-get install screen

To run, just type 'screen'

You can then run your rsync.

Ctrl-a, Ctrl-z will detach your screen, and you can safely close putty... rsync will continue to run in the background. When you log back on, you can re-attach screen by running 'screen -x', and you should see your rsync session still running. Assuming you are running rsync in verbose mode, you'll be able to see how far it has got through the transfer process.

@Tyberios, CTRL+A +D is detach, whats CTRL+A +Z? (No need to hold CTRL for second 'letter'.)

Also if you run the rsync via the cronjob tab in the OpenMediaVault GUI it will run in the background, too, of course.

Greetings
David