CDLehner

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?

Here is the RECEIVING drive... Assign it...or just run of=/dev/sdf?

So...I won't use disk5, as trurl cautions; I'll put a 3T drive, I had previously copied and removed back in. And this is the CLONE... Do this with array on or off? Do I need to do anything, to the RECEIVING disk...before running this command?

^ Thanks so much!

Sitting patiently…mostly.

^ OK… - how do you clone a drive, in unRAID; or will a CLONE…like in the dock on Windows…just be bit-for-bit perfect, including not caring about XFS, and re-creating XFS (or reiserfs…doesn’t matter, if we get the data back and get to “start over”) - and…do we then put the clone in, make IT disk7 (while keeping the ORIGINAL disk7 out of the mix)…and try the reiserfsck?

- I think I understand. While Stellar might see, the wrongly formatted disk…in XFS; it likely can’t restore, to anything other than a Windows-based formatted disk (and FTR…if that’s true…that is kinda what I was thinking)? So…if I run reiserfsck; I don’t run it against a clone of 7, right? reiserfsck —scan-whole-partition —rebuild-tree/dev/md7 is “right against” 7 itself, yes?

^ Oh boy; now I'm confused again (go figure, right?) - So...I can/should, go ahead and try Stellar; just doesn't seem like it'll likely work? - FTR...I think I might as well use disk5, as my "clone"; since it was 5 that was supposed to get formatted....in order to have 7 copied to it to begin with. Let's say, Stellar does see these drives; 5 is reiserfs and 7 is XFS. I think...whether it is Stellar, and/or cloning...and/or; these need to be on the same format? If so...make 5 XFS, before I start; or re-format 7 back to reiserfs (and would/n't that make any kind of recovery, even less likely)? - And if none of the above, is really much of an option; and I decide on this... I leave disk7, on XFS...and run this command?

One of the "issues" I'm anticipating...is with disk formats. Of course, I'll re-watch the above video...in greater detail, as I'm in the midst of actually trying it; but he did say something about...it not being able to recognize drives, because they weren't formatted...but to format them, would mean to lose data. IDK...something like that; and it was explained, because of a feature Stellar does have...that allows it to find drives, that aren't of a format Windows recognizes. I'm just not sure, what it will do with reiserrf and XFS.

Little 'ole me; teach you guys something. J/K; I realize, you have to do something dumb like this...to begin with...to even need to try this kind of recovery. I did a quick search of YT, about Stellar Data Recovery...and this was the 1st hit. I think it's fated: it was also a 3T drive...and just "dumb" files, like mine. Ordered a double-dock, that's due today (Thursday); and we'll have a run. WTH; can't get any worse, right?

So...let me say this: ^ I do have an extra 3T drive...if that's what's needed for "proper" recovery ^ I've said from the start, time wasn't that big a factor (though it is taking much longer than anticipated...due to my fault entirely) ^ And I think this is the thing I have to wrestle with; and...maybe all of you, keep mission-critical files on your servers...but I just have dumb movies and music on mine. Now, I say "dumb"...tongue in cheek, because OT1H; music and movies, aren't family heirlooms and/or one-of-a-kind files. OTOH...how many will I lose, how many can be replaced; and when will I even know they're destroyed??? For example: let's say I have 20,000 albums, ripped and stored. By f**cking up that ONE drive; will I lose 500...or will some part, of 18,000 be lost? Let's say...if I knew I'd lost it, right now; I could replace it. But...maybe I don't go to listen to that album...or watch that movie; for a year (literally, one time...I was watching a movie; Home Theater, people over...and we didn't get, like the last 15 minutes of the movie...the climax! Because of a likely file/disk corruption). Maybe, once I discover it; now it's not recoverable. No...I don't still have, ALL the media I've ripped...over 15 years?? Yes, they're just music and movies; but they're my music and movies. The music is more precious. If it turns out, True Lies got corrupted/lost; I go on eBay, buy a used copy. Rip, store, etc. But if I go to listen, to the HiRes FLAC file...of The Koln Concert; that I paid $20 to download...and that's now compromised. That's another story 🤷‍♂️ This is all, mostly rhetorical. This is the decision I have to make. Let's put it this way: if someone has done it...knows how to do it; if it's just time-consuming, and the likelihood of success...is "high". Sure...why the hell not. If not: if it's time-consuming, and a pain-in-the-a$$, and a moon-shot to boot; I'll just have to accept...what's gone is gone. Not enough time, left in this life, to listen to 20,000 (or whatever it is...lost/stopped counting) albums anyway.