It's been a little while since I went through this but to add some more light on how I removed the WORM volume... I physically removed the HDD drives from the system. Similar to when a drive fails, if the Volume / Pool, is compromised beyond repair (i.e. you loose all drives or sufficient drives not to be able to recover the pool) the NAS determines the Volume is broken and removes it. Not much you can do about a "failed" pool...
I suspect if I put the drives back in untouched it may have recovered the pool and I'd be back to square one. However, after taking the drives out, I installed them in my old NAS and deleted all partitions (you could do this with any PC). After deleting the partitions, putting the HDDs back into the TerraMaster NAS it has no way to know those used to be WORM drives, they're simply just new, empty, drives as far as it's concerned. So you can start rebuilding you new (non-WORM) volumes.
Volumes are also listed in /etc/volume/volume.conf you can tidy that up before building extra / new volumes to have a continuity in volumes numbering.
In short... TOS respects Hyperlock-WORM and will prevent any users (including admins) doing any modifications to it. FACT. I doubt you can do any harm to it even by SSH.
However, other PC / NAS don't care about Hyperlock-WORM (and nor should they), they will happily format/wipe the drives.
So as long as the drives are in a TerraMaster NAS and you only have "digital" access to it, the data is safe.
Having physical access to the drives is a whole different ball game... Before anyone points this out as being a flaw, consider physical security (access to pulling a drive out) no different to having access to taking a sledgehammer to it. If that is a real risk, then physical security (and off site backups) needs to be considered...
I suspect if I put the drives back in untouched it may have recovered the pool and I'd be back to square one. However, after taking the drives out, I installed them in my old NAS and deleted all partitions (you could do this with any PC). After deleting the partitions, putting the HDDs back into the TerraMaster NAS it has no way to know those used to be WORM drives, they're simply just new, empty, drives as far as it's concerned. So you can start rebuilding you new (non-WORM) volumes.
Volumes are also listed in /etc/volume/volume.conf you can tidy that up before building extra / new volumes to have a continuity in volumes numbering.
In short... TOS respects Hyperlock-WORM and will prevent any users (including admins) doing any modifications to it. FACT. I doubt you can do any harm to it even by SSH.
However, other PC / NAS don't care about Hyperlock-WORM (and nor should they), they will happily format/wipe the drives.
So as long as the drives are in a TerraMaster NAS and you only have "digital" access to it, the data is safe.
Having physical access to the drives is a whole different ball game... Before anyone points this out as being a flaw, consider physical security (access to pulling a drive out) no different to having access to taking a sledgehammer to it. If that is a real risk, then physical security (and off site backups) needs to be considered...
Statistics: Posted by mightymouse — Today, 08:52