 Hello everybody! Watch this video to find out how to recover data from a raid on Rockstar NAS, how to install Rockstar NAS operating system, create a raid, and configure the storage system. Rockstar NAS is an operating system for a network-attached storage, abbreviated as NAS, which provides users with a simple and convenient interface to store, manage, and exchange data within a network. Rockstar is based on Linux and is designed for installation on data storage devices like servers with hard disks or NAS systems. The main features included into Rockstar NAS are as follows. Support for various raid levels to ensure data safety and full tolerance. Ability to create network file systems such as NFS and SMB SIFS to provide shared access to data over the network. Simple and user-friendly interface to manage and configure the system. Flexibility to scale the system by adding more hard disks and expanding the data storage. A set of functions provided by better-office file system. Rockstar offers a wide range of functions to store data and ensure its safety, which makes it a perfect choice for home use as well as for small and medium-sized businesses. It provides a simple and convenient way to manage data and makes the process of storing and exchanging information easier and more efficient. Raider raids are an effective method to ensure safety and reliability of data storage on network-attached systems like Rockstar NAS. However, sometimes data may become inaccessible after a raid failure or NAS breakdown. In today's video, we'll tell you how to deal with such problems and restore access to your files. To learn more about Rockstar NAS operating system, let's explore how it's installed. Installing Rockstar is quite easy. Before the installation, make sure that your server complies with the system requirements. Download the latest version of Rockstar from the official website. You need to download an ISO image and then write it to a USB drive. In fact, you should create a bootable USB drive with the help of Rufus or HRE apps. After that, plug the USB drive into one of the ports of the computer where you want to install Rockstar and boot it. To have the computer boot from the USB drive, change the boot priority in BIOS or press a certain button to choose a specific boot device. As a result, you will see the grab window. Choose Rockstar NAS and then you will see an installation screen with a warning that all data will be deleted from the disk. Make yes to continue. In the welcome screen, click start. Select a region, choose a keyboard layout, accept the license agreement, select a time zone and set the root user password. Enter it one more time to confirm it and click OK. After the installation, Rockstar is ready for work. To access the web interface, you need to identify the IP address of your NAS. Enter the login and the root password and run the command MyIP. After that, open a browser on one of the computers connected to this shared network and type the IP address of your NAS device. When the web interface opens for the first time, give the domain name, login and password of the new user. Now you can access all the settings. You can create a storage system, add a shared folder and configure network access. For starters, let's explore how to build the RAID system on this specific device and add a shared folder. For illustration, I'll show you how to combine three hard disks into a RAID 5 system. Open Storage, Pools, click on Create Pool. In the settings window, assign a name to it and choose the RAID level. If necessary, choose the compression level and mount point, but I will leave them as they are. Now select the disks to use in your future RAID and click Submit below. As a result, you will get a new pool. Now you can add a shared folder. In the Share section, click on Create Share. Give it a name and set on the properties. If your Oxford NAS operating system won't boot, you can reinstall it and then upload the previously existing configurations. With this method, you can restore such configuration if the operating system was installed on a separate disk, which was not included into the disk array. For recovery, you will need the same bootable USB drive again. When booting, choose the last item, failsafe, install RockStore. This installation is very similar to the previous one, but you should be careful to choose the right disk where the previous operating system was installed. If you select the wrong disk, the RAID configuration can be removed. After the operating system is installed and boots for the first time, access the system by bi-interface and open Storage – Disks. Next to the disks which were included into the RAID, click the Import button. It says Click to import data. This way, the operating system will automatically import the all configuration which remains on the disks, including pools and snapshots. After the import, we can't find the folder containing our files. Most likely, we won't be able to restore them with this method. If you have a recent snapshot, you can try and use it to account data. If you have accidentally deleted files or your RockStore NAS devices out of order and the previous method failed to recover lost files, a specialized Data Recovery tool for RAID systems will help you and this is Hetman RAID Recovery. This utility lets you recover deleted or damaged data as well as restore access to data on crash disk arrays. It supports most popular file systems and RAID types. It will help you to recover data after a device breakdown, extent or removal, formatting, disk configuration or NAS firmware issues. If you lose access to data stored on a network-attached device as a result of a hardware error, a controller failure or other hardware issues, the data on the disks remain intact and can be handled with specialized Data Recovery tools. To start the recovery process, take the drives out of the storage device and connect them directly to the motherboard of a Windows computer. In RockStore NAS, the RAID is built on a better-office file system. The program recognizes the array as a group of individual disks, so if you analyze one of them, you'll be able to see your files. The matter is that when a RAID 5 is created on a better-office file system in RockStore NAS, the operating system uses a mixed-rate technology that allows combining various RAID levels to ensure maximum effectiveness and flexibility. This is why the Recovery tool can't identify a specific RAID level for this array. To start searching for files, right-click on any of the disks in the array and choose Open. After that, select the scan type, file scan, or full analysis. Run a file scan first. It will take less time. If the program can't find the missing files after the file scan, then go for full analysis. Go back to the main window, right-click on the volume and choose Analyze again, Full Analysis, Specify the file system, and click Next. Open the folder where your files used to be, select the files you want to restore, and click the Recovery button. Specify where to save the data, choose the disk and folder, and click Recovery again. When the recovery process is complete, you will see all the files in the choosing directory. Summing up, it is important to realize that data recovery from a RAID based on RockStore NAS can take quite a lot of time and considerable effort. Be prepared for the data recovery process to turn out long and complicated in some cases. If the RAIDs suffered heavy damage, data recovery may become impossible. But still, with proper tools at hand and a bit of patience, you can try and recover the lost files successfully. When you start the recovery process, remember about the importance of preserving integrity of original disks in order to reduce the risks of inflicting extra damage-oriented data. And that is all for now. I hope this video was useful, and it helped you to recover the lost files. Remember to click the Like button and subscribe to our channel. Leave your comments on the video. Thank you for watching and good luck.