I have a really old FreeNAS system that has run really well for almost 7 years. Completely unupdated over that span. I have only had to replace one of the array drives.
0.7.1 Shere (revision 4944)
OS is running on a 40GB IDE drive
Data stored on a SATA RAID5 of four 750GB drives. Gives me roughly 2.0TB of usable space. I'm using between 1.0TB and 1.5TB.
This morning, I heard the machine start to cycle. It boots, runs for about 15 minutes, then reboots on its own. I suspected heat at first and messed with the fans a bit to get the disks below 40C. Still rebooting. SSHed into the box and poked around. The OS disk was at 101% capacity, so I figured a log file somewhere was huge. Poked around for quite a while to see if there was a huge directory somewhere. Nothing. Finally realized that the OS disk was only registering as 120MB. Not good.
It boots. I can browse the file structure of the array both over a Windows share and through SSH. The web GUI shows that the array is rebuilding, but it's all there.
I pulled the OS disk out and tried to mount it to a Windows device with my USB HDD cable. No dice. The drive is making a horrible whining sound, so it seems pretty hosed.
I have a new commercial NAS product sitting on my floor, and I started to copy data over to it, but the 15-min cycle of reboots is preventing it from getting very far.
Pretty sure everything is backed up to the cloud, so we're not in super panic mode here. BUT, if I had to do a
full restore from CrashPlan, it would take a really long time. I'd much rather get the data over to a safe place via local copying if I can. I'm just afraid that on one of these reboots, it's not going to come back up, and I'll have a really hard time getting anything out of it.
What should I do to ensure the health of the array while I copy data over and retire this box? Should I boot from CD and try to mount the array? Put in a new hard drive and install the same version of FreeNAS?
0.7.1 Shere (revision 4944)
OS is running on a 40GB IDE drive
Data stored on a SATA RAID5 of four 750GB drives. Gives me roughly 2.0TB of usable space. I'm using between 1.0TB and 1.5TB.
This morning, I heard the machine start to cycle. It boots, runs for about 15 minutes, then reboots on its own. I suspected heat at first and messed with the fans a bit to get the disks below 40C. Still rebooting. SSHed into the box and poked around. The OS disk was at 101% capacity, so I figured a log file somewhere was huge. Poked around for quite a while to see if there was a huge directory somewhere. Nothing. Finally realized that the OS disk was only registering as 120MB. Not good.
It boots. I can browse the file structure of the array both over a Windows share and through SSH. The web GUI shows that the array is rebuilding, but it's all there.
I pulled the OS disk out and tried to mount it to a Windows device with my USB HDD cable. No dice. The drive is making a horrible whining sound, so it seems pretty hosed.
I have a new commercial NAS product sitting on my floor, and I started to copy data over to it, but the 15-min cycle of reboots is preventing it from getting very far.
Pretty sure everything is backed up to the cloud, so we're not in super panic mode here. BUT, if I had to do a
full restore from CrashPlan, it would take a really long time. I'd much rather get the data over to a safe place via local copying if I can. I'm just afraid that on one of these reboots, it's not going to come back up, and I'll have a really hard time getting anything out of it.
What should I do to ensure the health of the array while I copy data over and retire this box? Should I boot from CD and try to mount the array? Put in a new hard drive and install the same version of FreeNAS?
