aspdend2023

Yes, at least there are only a few - I believe a couple are large files (probably video files, mkv type) - the other ones will take some sifting, but its a damn sight easier than having to extract all the data from the failed disk and copying it over!

There is a lost + found folder - seems to be about 12 items in there so I will have a look and see if I can figure out what they are...

Excellent - that seems to have fixed it - doing the check filesystem flagged up some errors which I told it to fix and it seems to have done the trick! Thank you very much - that's a relief...now to do a few more reboots and make sure everything is working properly and I'll be happy again!

Hi - no, the disk wasn't shown as unmountable when I installed it. I've had a few redballed in my time and this one looked exactly the same as the previous ones (those rebuilds all went perfectly fine) I'll try the check filesystem and report back

Pretty much as per the title - on Version 7.0.0 - I had a disk that redballed, so I swapped it out for a brand new disk. The disk was recognised and all looked good in the GUI so I started a data rebuild onto the new disk. All looked good. I rebooted after the data rebuild and when the system came back online, the disk is now listed as unmountable - wrong or no file system. Not sure what my options are now - as I've already done the data rebuild, then I presume the best thing I can do is format the new disk to add it to the array and extract any data that is of interest from the failed disk (the majority of the data is, I believe, just old films and TV programmes - nothing that I need to get excited about) and copy it over to the newly formatted disk...Or is there some other way I can rebuild the disk?

The backup I was using was from Saturday 6th January 2024, before I looked at upgrading the OS, but thanks for the tip!

That makes me feel a lot better now then! Thanks for that - time to keep exploring other options for getting the server back online...

I have running 6.11.5 and finally decided to take the plunge and upgrade to 6.12.6. All went well, until after a day or so of uptime, the server started to hang. It would come back up after a reboot, but I decided to downgrade again. That seemed to go fine, but I was having issues with my dockers not all starting up as they should so I rebooted and that is where my problems start. I cannot get the server to come back online again. I have tried several different flash drive backups I made before upgrading etc and nothing is helping. The thing that is confusing me is I was looking in the zip file for one of the flash backups I made and I checked the disk_assignments.txt file and noticed it is labelled as "Disk Assignments as of Mon, 13 Aug 2018 03:00:24 +0100". and looking at the disk assignments in this text file, I can see a number of drives that have been removed and upgraded and changed out, second parity added since 2018 etc. I understood the disk assignments file showed literally the disk assignments at the time of the backup, but I have checked all the flash drive backups I have made and they all have the same disk assignments file in them. Is this file redundant now and the disk assignments are held somewhere else or is there some issue with my flash backups? The backups are made from the GUI>main>flash>backup flash drive. thanks in advance