Help with TS-RIGL/R5 iSCSI

[Farhan]

   

Dear all,

I had recently purchase TS-RIGL/R5 8TB iSCSI Rackmount which i am using to store disk images for all my servers. The TS i am planing to move OFFSITE. But instead i am thinking if i remove all the HDD in proper order, label them, number them and move to OFFSITE, what will happen when i will put those HDD back in TS? lets say after weeks or month. Will they be considered new HDD or will TS recoqnise them and retain the original RAID 5 , along all the data?. is there any way i can backup the RAID 5 configuration and keep it along those HDD, which i can restore back. What if i replace all original HDD with another set of HDD ? i have to recreate RAID5 array ? and what if put back original HDD set?

I really wanted to try this on my  own unit but had already started imaging.

 

Appreciated any informative comments.

 

Best Regards

Farhan Parkar

[Colin137]

Since the firmware is located on the drives, this SHOULD work. However, it is not supported. I HIGHLY recommend testing it before relying on it for backups of important data.

[Farhan]

   

Thanks Colin, I would had tested but already started Backup on TS. If any one could test will be much appreciated.