papnikol

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  1. dont panic too much. i haven't had an unfortunate experience like yours but i have read many accounts of other people to whom it has happened. there are ways to recover almost all data. just dont write anything on your drives. i think the solution requires invoking the reiserfsck command which recovers the file tree. i cannot tell you much more but you should certainly check for similar solutions in the forum, i know they exist. I think the most helpful instructions are in this message by Joe, which addresses the same problem as yours: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=6008.msg57379#msg57379
  2. thanx starcat and Joe i think i will go with the first solution since it seems easier for me lwt's hope i find the root of the problem..
  3. aha so i... 1.put these 4 lines to my go script mv -f /boot/syslog.current /boot/syslog.last 2>/dev/null cat /var/log/syslog > /boot/syslog.current echo "*.debug /boot/syslog.current" >> /etc/syslog.conf /etc/rc.d/rc.syslog restart 2.reboot 3. erase the lines since the syslog has been permanently moved?
  4. hallo everybody i have a problem with my server powering down unexpectedly. i want to check the syslog but as you know, it is lost in every restart so this is a problem. i want to find out how i can append syslog results to a file (and in a way that when the server reboots, the syslog wont be erased by the creation of a new syslog). i am sure i have seen this mentioned somewhere in the forum but the search did not help. can you please help? PS: btw, apparently my server was constructing the parity disk from some HDDs to which i had loaded my data and the ball next to the parity drive was orange. I dont know if the parity sync was finished. but when i rebooted, the ball next to the parity drive is now green (i guess it must have finished), yet it is performing a parity-check. why would that be?
  5. thanks, joe that's exactly what i needed...
  6. ok so just the disk and panty are the same it will work ? panty? what panty? you mean parity? if they are the same, yes i think it will work
  7. i am not sure what exactly you mean but if you made some customizations that did not work well, i believe you can write in the flash the original unraid. just take care, if the positions of the disks are lost, you must define the same disks in the same positions as before the change (parity, disk1, disk2...)
  8. thanks Joe. The url you gave me is quite informative although it does not explain completely what i am seeing. for example what each column means or what 'pre-fail' and 'always' mean..
  9. hi everyone i got the following results from preclearing one 1.5T Seagate HDD: ============================================================================ == == Disk /dev/sda has been successfully precleared == ============================================================================ S.M.A.R.T. error count differences detected after pre-clear note, some 'raw' values may change, but not be an indication of a problem 54c54 < 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 117 100 006 Pre-fail Always - 153664726 --- > 1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x000f 115 100 006 Pre-fail Always - 92136501 58c58 < 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 253 030 Pre-fail Always - 800748 --- > 7 Seek_Error_Rate 0x000f 100 253 030 Pre-fail Always - 884025 63,66c63,66 < 188 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0 < 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 083 083 000 Old_age Always - 17 < 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 070 054 045 Old_age Always - 30 (Lifetime Min/Max 29/30) < 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 052 041 000 Old_age Always --- > 188 Unknown_Attribute 0x0032 100 099 000 Old_age Always - 1 > 189 High_Fly_Writes 0x003a 047 047 000 Old_age Always - 53 > 190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022 066 054 045 Old_age Always - 34 (Lifetime Min/Max 29/34) > 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 062 041 000 Old_age Always 70,72c70,72 < 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 200970109714500 < 241 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 1941922721 < 242 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 153553789 --- > 240 Head_Flying_Hours 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 55804510077015 > 241 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 577557468 > 242 Unknown_Attribute 0x0000 100 253 000 Old_age Offline - 4006097115 ============================================================================ I have seen some explanations on the forums but they are not very clear. Can you point me to a page where every message is explained (either in an unraid forum or any kind of wiki etc) PS: If it is easy for you, can you also tell me if i should be worried?
  10. What do you mean? naturally, through net use i can see my mapped drive but i want it to be there. actually, what i am saying is that i cannot use teracopy with THIS mapped drive. i have tried deleting and creating it again, no change... I just wanted to make sure you don't have any other wierd connections listed in there for your server. Can you browse the mapped drive ok in windows? If yes, disable teracopy and see if you can copy a file to that share using the regular windows copy. i have tried without teracopy and it works ok. but teracopy is useful especially when copying big volumes of data. also, i can browse the mapped drive although i must admit that for some reason i could not see all the subdirectories until i disconnected the mapped drive and reconnected
  11. What do you mean? naturally, through net use i can see my mapped drive but i want it to be there. actually, what i am saying is that i cannot use teracopy with THIS mapped drive. i have tried deleting and creating it again, no change... i tried teracopy last night. it copied more than 900Gb flawlessly. But what do you recommend then?
  12. that's the most annoying kind of problem: the kind where something does not work for you but works for everyone else...
  13. Hallo everyone I use teracopy instead of the native windows 7 tool to move/copy files When I use it to copy files to my unRaid server (by drag and drop or copy then paste) everything is ok as long as i access my copy destination folder like this: \\tower\movies (where movies is tha name of a share) if, on the other hand i access the same share as a mapped drive i get the following message: Target folder is not available Y:\ (where Y is ofcourse the name of the mapped drive) In the last case, if i use the default copy tool of windows everything workd ok what could be the reason for this behavior of teracopy (btw, i run teracopy as admin, so this cannot be the problem)
  14. If you just "clear" it on another unRAID instance, you'll install it, but unRAID will then have to take many hours to calculate parity. You'll be without parity protection until it completes. well, since preclearing helps with locating problematic sectors, i think it is worth wasting the respective time But you are right, if you are in a hurry you can avoid preclearing +the parity thing that joe just mentioned
  15. That's true, although it depends on whether you are in a hurry to put a disk in use...
  16. Thanx for the info Joe Although since it took 30 hours for my 2Tb Hitachi (instead of 24hours) i guess that the slow mobo is to blame a bit too...
  17. Sounds about right. Doing 2 at the same time takes longer than doing only 1. are you sure? i thought that each sata port had its own bandwidth?
  18. well, with my SATA I mobo it has already taken 27 hours simultaneously preclearing 2 Hitachi hdds (2Tb , 7200, each same as barrygordon's) and it's only at 80% of post-read...
  19. both unraided and boof, make good points and i guess what you both say probably sums up the conclusions all experienced users must have reached. PS: i know i can mount my hdd's elsewhere if there is a problem with my unraid server. actually, i think for me this one of the biggest selling points. When people ask me for my advice for Drobo, i tell them i wouldn't use it even if it was for free (unless they gave me 5-6 drobos for free ). My concern isn't that i would automatically loose my data if limetech closed. I was just thinking that in that case, i would be left with no protection the moment my usb dies and no alternative. The escrow thing you both mention gives me some hope (btw, thanks for teaching me a new word (escrow), english in not my native language )
  20. thanx for your answer boof Just some thoughts: it would be very annoying to have to pay again for the same software because the hardware malfunctioned. at the very least they could ask for the usb stick to be sent to them so they can verify it is the original (if that is possible hardwarewise) that's the thing, they dont answer. and this is an important question worth 100s of dollars (or euros in my case) to every user... i dont want to be whiny, i understand that they are not a big business, but since they make a profit, they have some obligation (at least to customers, if not to prospective customers). if they get many emails it probably is because they have a big customer base, which means that maybe they should make some provisions for that. Especially if they decide to only answer to requests for keys... you are right of course, but currently there is not a good alternative to unRaid, it is a monopoly Plus, i like the unRaid community... So, even though i can decide not to buy it, i don't have a viable alternative
  21. Hi everybody I have tested unRaid while trying to set it up on a friend and everything works fine now (thanks to the help from the forum members). i also have tested the basic version in my hardware which was not in the compatibility list. I liked it so i want to buy a pro key for myself. I had some questions which i sent to limetech but after 2 weeks i have got no answer (which is by itself a little unsettling). So i was hoping that some of you could answer them: 1. since each license is tied to a usb what happens if the usb malfunctions (which eventually it will as all hardware does. after all, we use unraid exactly because we want to be protected from eventual hardware failure)? 2. if limetech closes for some reason (which i hope it doesn't) what will happen to unRaid? As i said in question 1, the USB will eventually malfunction. Will that mean the end of my unRaid server? 3. from the moment i order a key (just the key, not a usb stick), how long does it take for them to email it back? Thanks in advance
  22. Joe, you are being so helpful that you needn't be sorry for anything Anyways, i've got lots of hair...
  23. i have put the same command in my go script. but, the unMenu S3 sleep user script was overriding it when ii ran it. when i changed the 'ethtool -s eth0 wol g' to 'ethtool -s eth0 wol g' everything was fixed
  24. found problem and solution. updated my original question with it for future reference
  25. the thing is, it did not do it from the beginning, so i am guessing i must have done something wrong, so this time the blame falls mostly on me