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Ok, I've spent about 3 hours solving this problem.
I had a DNS-323 where the LEDs became dim, and eventually the power supply stopped working.
Today I got a replacement unit; I had no backup of my old configuration, all I knew whas that I had to get my RAID-1 volume to work.
The DNS-323 insists on formatting the harddrives upon insertion, but that was not an option since I had alot of imporant data. The last backup was performed about two weeks before the DNS-323 before it died.
I inserted one of the drives, and tried to access the DNS-323 via SMB (windows share). The code page wasn't set correctly, so all special characters were not printed right; and this would make a real mess in the directory of my previously backed up files.

Well... I needed a fresh consistent backup without errors in the file names.
My first thought was to insert one of the HDDs into a USB-enclosure and connect it to a Linux-box. The linux-box didn't want to read the contents of the drive.
I also tried to install the Ext2 IFS driver in Windows and mount the drive there without any luck.

Since the previous diskdconfiguration of the DNS-323 was set to RAID-1 I could safely format one of the harddrives.
I guess the DNS-323 configures Samba to support UTF-8 after formatting, because when I inserted the second harddrive, everything looked allright.

The solution:

1. Configure the DNS-323
2. Insert the first HDD (left side) and format it as a stand-alone drive
3. Power down the DNS-323 and swap the inserted disk with disk number two
4. Power it up, and backup the contents via SMB (use a tool like robocopy (download this for 2003/XP, robocopy is included in Vista))
If you decide to use robocopy, you could use these command parameters: robocopy /MIR /ZB /W:2 /R:2 \\dns323\Volume_1\ C:\dns323_backup\
Be careful with the /MIR option - because this will delete all files in your destination folder if they do not exist on your DNS-323 (take a look at robocopy /?).
5. Voila! A fresh consistent backup! Now you can reformat both of the drives and configure them to RAID-1.

Note to self:
Take backup of data frequently - at least one time a day. Robocopy does this nicely
Take backup of the configuration after making changes

Edit:
Btw.. I could not get fun_plug to work in this state either, even if it used to work before.

Last edited by ricmik (2008-07-21 23:44:01)