Decided to open up the PavNAS to replace the CMOS battery. It's such a pain in the arse compared to a lovely ThinkPad; ALL the back panel screws need removing, and then the crappy plastic back panel still needs spudging off anyway. Such a cheap PoS.
…but it works! Possibly.
The BIOS is awfully basic, so doesn't have the option to auto-power-on after a power cut; I've toggled some settings so it auto-turns-on at midnight everyday (might mod that to be something more sensible like five in the morning, to catch power cuts in the wee hours, though I don't know if this feature actually works yet).
Had a funny moment just now when I couldn't remotely access the harddrive I had mapped yesterday from Windows’s File Mangler, and when I logged into the system via a browser it said the drive was “Missing”. Uh oh.
…then I noticed the CD bay adaptor containing a HDD lying on the desk which I had not yet replaced after opening up the laptop. Derp.
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Completely unrelated aside: I've been using Winamp to play MP3s since 2000, when I first bought my first, own PC. There was a whole thing with Winamp (that I never learned about and don't have the bandwidth to care about) and some forkage which resulted in me using 5.666 for the last few years.
I'm not entirely sure what prompted the transition a few weeks ago, but I've stumbled upon Wacup as an alternative. It has some kind of lyrics plug-in, which seems to sometimes work, but the greatest improvement I've found so far is being able to use the spacebar for pausing. ZXCVB controls still work, but the spacebar is soooo much easier to hit to pause, and it's intuitive after so long using space to pause in e.g. youtube and VLC. I'm finding it particularly useful as I'm transitioning away from youtube towards listening to audiobooks instead.
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One side-effect of replacing the battery was the BIOS resetting to defaults, including turning secure boot back on, and turning off legacy boot. This then resulted in the message “The selected boot devices failed” when trying to boot.
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That whole thing of Windows not copying everything in a directory because of pErMisSiOnS has come back to bite me on the butt: I've found some stuff that isn’t in the supposedly “definitive” sorted back-up folder of everything…
It seems that TreeSize ignores such nonsense, so I need to use that when copying in the future.
In other news, setting up shares in OMV is quite time-consuming; the process is long-winded with many, many steps, and the disk initialisation (or whatever it does) takes an aaaaaage, especially for a 1.8TB drive, but it does seem to work.
…or does it…? The web interface says “allocating group tables” and the tables tick up very slowly (it's going to take until at least tomorrow morning to finish for the 1.8TB drive) but the screen on the actual laptop has a loooooong list of entries saying “usb 3-2.1: device descriptor read/64, error -110”. Some googling suggests this might be a power issue…
But the table allocating whatever is still ticking up, so I'll let it do its thing.
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I've now had a chance to compare two versions of the Backup\BAckup\BACKUP\BACKUP TEMP\BACKUP TEST directory and have found that, indeed, a whole swathe of stuff is missing from the “definitive” version. When I have some time (i.e. when work & the real world isn't taking up my valuable time) I'll collate two versions of the folder and ensure I have everything backed up.
