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No, no other problems. I've been trying to get some USB cards passed through in a VM using VFIO-PCI Config, but that was about a week ago, and I had been watching media through Plex after that. The only thing I was doing immediately before I noticed the missing data was deleting old Time Machine locations using Krusader. I think I have half hearedly convinced myself that I accidentally deleted the 'Media' folder while meaning to delete 'Old Time Machine' folder.

No, I haven't done anything to the server since I noticed the files were missing. The only thing I can think is that maybe I accidentally deleted the entire 'Media' folder in Krusader when I was deleting old Time Machine shares. I really don't think that's what happened, but I can't think of anything else it could possibly be. I'm not worried about the files I lost, just more concerned that I can't figure out how or why it happened. and therefor can't be sure it won't happen again.

Yeah, the primary function of this machine was as a Plex Server. My media was 8+Tb of the available 16Tb array. See the attached screenshot for what I think was my Media share. The only thing I can think of is that Plex had read/write access, so someone in my house may have deleted files that way.... but as far as I'm aware, that has to be done file by file, not a whole folder structure at a time. The only thing I've done recently is create a new Apple Time Machine share. This has to be a user action right? If it were a disk error, the files would still be emulated by the parity drive, correct? I don't even know where to begin investigating. I would like to make sure not to let it happen again! Thanks for the help btw!!

Diagnostics attached tower-diagnostics-20200801-2220.zip

I had a Media share with about 8Tb of data, and somehow it is now gone. All of my movies, pics, music, and home videos have just disappeared. All other shares are still there, and operating fine. I just can’t figure out how to find out what happened. The free space on the array shows correct, as if the data has all just been deleted. I’m fairly sure it happened in the last 24-48 hrs. The entire ‘media’ folder (including all sub folders) is also missing when I use Krusader to browse. Is there any log file I can check to see what happened? Is there a data recovery option I can try? The server isn't used a lot, so I don't expect there has been much or anything re-written to the drives. syslog.txt

So, my attempts at resurrecting the broken flash drive failed miserably. I will be transferring my license to a new USB stick and starting over. I have 4 data drives, 1 parity drive, and 1 cache drive. The data and parity drives are all 4tb WD Red, so figuring out their assignments is going to be a chore. Where should I start?

Unfortunately I did not have notifications set up, nor did I have status e-mails sent to me. I definitely do not remember what my drive assignments were. I am going to try to repair the USB drive first (the connector was torn off of the PCB.) I am hoping to get it working enough to boot once, and allow me to retrieve a flash backup.

I moved about 8 months ago, and just now got around to unpacking my Unraid Server. Unfortunately, somehow in the move, my USB flash drive literally broke in half. I still have the registration key in an e-mail, but I have no idea how to transfer that to a new flash drive. Also, once I transfer the license key, will my server be setup just as it was before I shut it down last? Or will I have to start from scratch?