CDLehner

^ Sounds good. OK...here's what I think we're doing. This all started, when I had copied disk5 to disk4...was supposed to re-format disk5, and copy disk7 to disk5 (disk6 has already been copied to disk1). Instead...I accidentally re-formatted disk7. So...first: I re-format disk5 to xfs? Then...I copy "7" to disk5; and so forth? I say "7", because I'm not sure if I use 38RH, or 30RX. I mean...I assume 30RX, because 38RH is essentially "blank". But...38RH is the disk we'll "hold back", and maybe work on recovering long term??

I did this. As I've said, and as you can see; my files are movies, music...some TV shows. I can't really watch movies on my PC (I mean, obviously I could; but I'm not set-up for it...don't really want to jump through that hoop, and what could I do anyway. Watch each 2 hour movie; see if it's complete?) Instead...I looked at the music files. It was as I feared; some were entirely gone (folder was there, but empty or mostly empty; like cover art, but no tracks)...others missing tracks, others with corrupted tracks. I only looked at 5 or 6; but I got the message (the message being, there is some/substantial loss for sure; but I assume many more are entirely intact. I mean...the MUSIC dir, on that disk; is 8.9G). I don't want to give up prematurely. If someone really thinks, we can get everything or mostly everything back; I guess I'm game...within reason. But at this point...I have kind of accepted putting the array together; and trying to identify quickly, what might have been lost...and seeing if I still have the means to recover. For example...I might have had, 10 different copies of Dark Side of the Moon (different remasters; yes...I'm a bit, of what they call a completist). If I lost 3 of the 10; c'est la vie. The movies might be tougher. As I mentioned earlier; I'll likely only find about them...as I'm watching, and at the 55-minute mark...the file shuts down incomplete or corrupt. Again...we've fought the good fight; and if there's more we could do...with a reasonable expectation for recovery. I guess I'd push forward. But...while these files are "important", they're not that important, if you know what I mean.

Here's where I think I'm at: I'm ready to move forward, thinking this is about the best we're going to do. 1.68G looks to be lost; 2.4 of my 2.6T is in my MOVIES share. I think I...copy these contents (minus lost+found), to disk5 (where this fiasco started); and carry on. Agree??

^ No; I'm about ready to stop flogging this thing. I guess my only question is; it would be cool to know, how big these dirs...other than 'lost+found...are. If I've 2.83T on that drive; and 2T of it is L+F...I'll know not to expect much. Is there a way, to get these dir sizes?

Miles and miles...of this kind of thing

Start with this?

^ FWIW; it does show this... Space used. Sorry; how do I view contents of (an unassigned) unR drives?

Try to mount?

OK. Give me about an hour. Thanks

^ There’s probably 200 lines of “stuff”.

OK; it's done...with a whole laundry-list of "stuff". What now?

Oh, I know. I'm around 50% unless there's a next step. Which...if it's days, not hours; there must be. No hurries; no worries.

Cool. Now comes the holding of breath, and praying. Listen...no matter the outcome; you guys have been awesome, to hold my hand through this. Thanks

Oh snap; obviously I am not used to TelNet/PuTTY. So I was thinking “replaying journal: no transactions found” was an end and bad news. Of course, it’s running something…or I’d be back to my root@ prompt.

Oh, wow; that was quicker than I thought it would be.

Same

OK...rebooted; CLONE is still sdf Re-established TelNet (PuTTY)

^ Failed to open device sdf1. Didn't want to question...but was that a typo? Just sdf, right?

Be still my heart! 💜🙏

Hmm: when I walked in to check on this...the 1st thing I've been looking at, is the drive activity light on the slot I know I'm pulling from. NO LIGHT. I was happy, to see this...meaning it seemed to be done; but, of course...as you can see...some errors. What do we think gents?

FTR...not blinking

∆ That screenshot, was before ENTER; so yes...now I just have the blinking cursor, below the command line. Damn I wish I could have added the status=progress. How do I know when it's done!? When root@unSERVER is back? Did someone say, expect upwards of 3 days??

Is there somewhere, I can watch progress?