Well my name is stupid... What happened. I was doing a massive upgrade to my unraid server and instead of being smart and doing things properly I got drunk and yoloed it.... we now I'v gotten burned.
I had 4 12TB drives with no parity and I stuffed full of my data from a bunch of old 3TB drives. I deleted the config, ya I know im stupid, and created a new array from scratch. I thought I had selected 2 of the new empty drives to use for parity but no, I somehow selected one of the original 4 12 TB drives that was packed full of my data.... I realized this mistake after about 2% of the parity sync was done and I stopped the array. That is where I sit know. since I don't have a valid parity drive from before I cant just put things back the way they where and rebuild the bad data disk.
My question is what can I do. I know I'm not going to get everything back from this drive. But is there any way to recover some of the data? I have not and will not touch anything until I hear from the community. I just hope this was not the drive with my photo folders on it... everything but the photos can be replaced...
I'm just shaking my head has I preach to other people about 3-2-1.... I do have an off site backup of my important photos but they on google photo using there compressed format.