JRubenol

Completed! I think I was just over hammering a system that is too old to handle that many things. Building out my new system but I'm fully operational now. Thanks again!

Rebuild started in safe maintenance mode. What I can already see is about a 35% improvement in speed rebuilding the drive. Hoping this time tomorrow, I'm back. And, I'm already building my next server. This one has served its purpose more than enough (multiple owners over 12 years).

Doesn't maintenance mode put the drives in read-only meaning I can't do the data rebuild?

Sorry I'm not entirely tracking this. You said setup a syslog server (which I have done and it's writing to boot USB which I'm fine with). Did you get all of the logs you needed? I can try in Maintenance mode, that's something I haven't tried. I just had another freeze (not rebuilding, that was paused, I was moving some stuff via ssh and nextcloud was syncing some stuff over samba).

I thought the post (two ago) that has syslog and syslog-previous is a syslog server....I have that enabled and writing to my boot drive (USB). Those are the logs. I'm not writing that much, a bit but yes, the rebuild hasn't finished. I currently have it paused and the server is still crashing. My syslog screen is attached.

Diagnostics attached. tower-diagnostics-20260407-1516.zip

And, another crash (not during rebuild, but, during moving files). Common theme seems to be SMB stuff mixed with other things. Lots attached. Diagnostics to follow. syslog syslog-previous

Good news is I got a very clean smartctrl test on it. Rebuilding now....if this fails, I'm starting to run out of ideas of what it could be. I have syslog server up and running so we'll see. hard_drive.txt

Going to run a long smart test first. It's running now. Going to take until 2am. Figured, might as well know where things stand completely. Will report back. Also, I'm still interested if you have a donation/buy me a coffee link.

Here's that diagnostics with disk4 removed from the array. Also - do you have a "buy me a coffee" link or anything? You're spending a lot of time with me and I appreciate it. tower-diagnostics-20260406-0911.zip

Working on this now, possibly side issue happening in that it's showing an unclean shutdown despite the fact that I did a clean shutdown through the GUI....separate post? I'm getting nervous I'm on the brink of losing data.

I just took out each drive, used compressed air to clean it all out (there was a wire that was pinched a bit....) and put the drives back in. I'm booting up right now. Question is, as soon as I start the array, the drive rebuild will start. You're asking bfor a diagnostics before that. So, just to clarify, you want one before I start the array?

Here it is. tower-diagnostics-20260406-0739.zip

I see that it looks like my parity drive is having some issues.....going to try to reseat it.....I only have single disk failure available now, and obviously with disk4 rebuilding, I could be in trouble. But, happy to take any suggestions as I limp through trying to recover from this.

Got those logs....crashed again. Hopefully this helps in some way. syslog-previous tower-diagnostics-20260405-2034.zip