Hello,
sorry for my late reply, i have been away for a few days. And now there is a lot to answer, so here we go.:
My backup is pretty much not existent. i know thats fatal. the only thing which could safe my ass is the fact that i have my old raid controller with the old hdds laying around and i hope these still works. if that is the case i could get back about 90% of my data.
Yes, i am sure i didnt format them.
Some time ago i found an article to integrate my google drive into unraid. i tried that and tried with scripts to backup my data from unraid to the mounted google drive. but that didnt work because i have no clue about scripts.
No, its not and that is strange. Now it only shows 232GB in Windows as max capacity which is the size of the cache drive. When i open the network storage i find all the files and links but nearly everything has 0kb size.
After i bootet the first time with the new usb-stick i saw all my data with the 8TB network drive NAS. I was able to copy all my pictures to my local PC.
Unraid wanted to check parity, but i didnt saw it rebuilding.
I didnt swap any cables since i build this nas. these cables are in the same position, thats for sure.
Im not very sure at the moment to be honest. I think i fired it up and it was ok, i saw that only one cache-drive was assigned to the raid. i stopped the array and added the second cache drive. Now what i see is that my "NAS" share is only on the Cache drive and not on the big drives anymore. Thats not right.
I have no idea what the settings were where appdata, domains, system and so on should have been. I did not touch these settings when i installed unraid. i only set up my array, users and smb share.
Now it seems that everything swaped. my cache drive is the "NAS" drive now where all my data should be and on my 8TB share are the appdata, domains ....
I made a few screenshots: Nas share is only 232GB big, as the cache drive. On the 4TB HDD Disk 1 is only appdata, domains, isos, system, but not nas.
On disk 2 is only appdata.
I hope i answered all the questions. i think i fucked it up, right?