Hi all,
I've been running xpenology 4.3 3810(i think) for about 5 months and it's been perfect for what I need... I've been streaming films from Plex, storing photos/videos from holidays/family stuff, Recording CCTV, using it as an iSCSI target for my vSphere cluster...
I've been literally a click away from ordering a genuine Synology for a couple of weeks based on my xpenology experience... and the little voice in the back of my head telling me its not a genuine box, it may fail, you may loss all your data...
Anyway, today I decided to upgrade one of my vSphere hosts and re-cable everything. This meant powering off the Xpenology server, which I did. Once I'd finished the cabling I powered it back on to find I couldn't contact any of the IP addresses assigned to the box... after messing around for about 2 hours I finally decided to plug a monitor in... I tried to log into the console but it wouldn't accept the password... I tried every password I could think of, and none of them worked.
At this point I couldn't think else to do so I hard powered it off and powered it on again... This time by scrolling back up the console window I noticed the interfaces where all set to DHCP and one was assigned an address from my router. The others were assign apipa addresses.
This is when I found myself looking at the Synology Assistant page which a status of 'Configuration lost'... I feel a little bit sick thinking about it... I've got about 2TB of data I REALLY REALLY don't want to lose. Typically over the last couple of days I've been looking at cloud backup options as well... bit late now...
I don't want to go any further just in case I make it worse if possible...
HARDWARE
HP Microserver n40l
8GB RAM
16GB usb pen - (OS installed)
6 x 1TB SATA
1 x single port nic
1 x dual port nic
SOFTWARE
Xpenology DSM 4.3 3810
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So my question to the experts out there is it recoverable???
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Thanks for reading
James