vid1953 Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 I have now turned on my server and nothing! Turns out the Unraid USB is now empty. I had the previous key which now wont work. I have rquested a new key. Is there a way to recover the movies that are on my hard drives. Has anyone else had this problem? Thanks vid1953 Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 Do you have a backup of your flash drive? Quote Link to comment
vid1953 Posted October 22, 2021 Author Share Posted October 22, 2021 I have it on a seperate usb which is in the server. The unraid program is up and running. The key they sent me in July will not work. I sent unraid support a request for my new key numbers. I know which HD is the parity drive. Will i be able to acces my movies on all 4 HD? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 25 minutes ago, vid1953 said: Will i be able to acces my movies on all 4 HD? Yes, assuming no problems with those disks or their filesystems. Quote Link to comment
vid1953 Posted October 22, 2021 Author Share Posted October 22, 2021 So would i just assign the disc drives and then what would be my next step be to not lose anything? Quote Link to comment
vid1953 Posted October 22, 2021 Author Share Posted October 22, 2021 All existing data on this device will be OVERWRITTEN when array is Started: This is next to the assigned parity drive??? Quote Link to comment
vid1953 Posted October 22, 2021 Author Share Posted October 22, 2021 Reboot in safe mode?? Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 36 minutes ago, vid1953 said: All existing data on this device will be OVERWRITTEN when array is Started: This is next to the assigned parity drive??? Do you have the drive serial numbers in exactly the same slots as they were before? Quote Link to comment
vid1953 Posted October 22, 2021 Author Share Posted October 22, 2021 I do believe i have the same order. Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted October 22, 2021 Share Posted October 22, 2021 2 minutes ago, vid1953 said: I do believe i have the same order. How do you know? A mistake here will be fatal to your data. Quote Link to comment
vid1953 Posted October 22, 2021 Author Share Posted October 22, 2021 I found a picture of the drives and their serial numbers and put them in that order. I guess i have to go with that and take a shot. This has happened 3 times and the 4th will not be a charm. If i lose all my files then im just going back to windows 10. Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 Is there a checkbox to specify that parity is already valid? Quote Link to comment
Ford Prefect Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 I found a picture of the drives and their serial numbers and put them in that order. I guess i have to go with that and take a shot. This has happened 3 times and the 4th will not be a charm. If i lose all my files then im just going back to windows 10.....easy to say, but you should have made backups of your data.Loosing the stick like this and that many times, implies that you probably made mistakes, when passing USB ports to a VM or something like this.Regardless, your situation is not fatal. You could create a USB with a Linux live ISO and boot into that....provided you have either IPMI or mouse, keyboard and monitor attached.From within the live OS you can mount and open your disks ...the parity disk will appear as non mountable, but all data disks can be accessed from a file manager and you can than make your backups.Gesendet von meinem SM-G780G mit Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
vid1953 Posted October 23, 2021 Author Share Posted October 23, 2021 The last three times everything is working fine for months and then you go to use it and nothing. I am definitely a novice and learning. You’ve lost me on recovery. If I can just get my movie files back I can reload all dockers. And start from scratch. Quote Link to comment
Ford Prefect Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 No sir...look again, do not start the array without checking that Box, if there is a risk that you did not allocate all disks in the same order as you have on that Screenshot. Gesendet von meinem SM-G780G mit Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
Ford Prefect Posted October 23, 2021 Share Posted October 23, 2021 The last three times everything is working fine for months and then you go to use it and nothing. I am definitely a novice and learning. You’ve lost me on recovery. If I can just get my movie files back I can reload all dockers. And start from scratch. Could be you messed up a Docker Setting or just have a buch of faked USB Sticks.My Method described how you can access the data disks, without unraid from a Linux System, a Live one, that will not need to be installed. Gesendet von meinem SM-G780G mit Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
vid1953 Posted October 24, 2021 Author Share Posted October 24, 2021 On 10/23/2021 at 5:16 AM, Ford Prefect said: ...look again, do not start the array without checking that Box, if there is a risk that you did not allocate all disks in the same order as you have on that Screenshot. Gesendet von meinem SM-G780G mit Tapatalk I checked the box and did a parity check which came up with 357726 errors. I have attached the logs which i have no idea on how to read. I think at this point I would like to use plex on windows only. Is there a way to format my discs back to NTFS? syslog.txt Quote Link to comment
Ford Prefect Posted October 24, 2021 Share Posted October 24, 2021 (edited) 7 hours ago, vid1953 said: I checked the box and did a parity check which came up with 357726 errors. I have attached the logs which i have no idea on how to read. I think at this point I would like to use plex on windows only. Is there a way to format my discs back to NTFS? syslog.txt 91.96 kB · 1 download ....what you should have done, after checking the box, which states that "parity is valid", is something else. You should have first checked, if the data is still there and intact. Since read operation does not require parity you could check and even transfer/save data to a backup. After that, you should have done a parity check including the checkmark set on the box that states "write corrections to parity". Your syslog contains no errors at all. Your data disks are mounted in xfs just fine....so, is all your data there and intact? Edited October 24, 2021 by Ford Prefect Quote Link to comment
vid1953 Posted October 24, 2021 Author Share Posted October 24, 2021 So I assume all the movie files are gone. so at this point I have to make new share folders and get new files or just convert to windows which is much easier to understand. I really appreciate your help Quote Link to comment
Ford Prefect Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 12 hours ago, vid1953 said: So I assume all the movie files are gone. Well, didn't you check? It sounds strange, that this has happend to you after a multiple year long "uptime". 12 hours ago, vid1953 said: so at this point I have to make new share folders and get new files or just convert to windows which is much easier to understand. I really appreciate your help Should you go that route, I'd recommend looking into stablebit drivepool...where you can pool individual drives into a larger Array/Share and where each individual drive is still formatted in itstelf, giving you the ability to extract and mount it outside if things go fubar....quite similar to unraid, but no parity (offers duplication settings for files and folders instead). I am using it in my Win based TV recorder/server and my Win Workstation and I am also very happy with it. Quote Link to comment
vid1953 Posted October 25, 2021 Author Share Posted October 25, 2021 I was thinking about going with windows program and just mirror the drive that holds all my movies. I would load windows onto my ssd card and then reformat all my drives to NTFS from the unraid. server. Once I load windows do you think I will have any problem formatting my hard drives since they came from the Unraid server? I will checkout the stablebit drivepool and try it if it isnt to hard to figure out. Im sure you can tell that im not computer savey. I assume that stablebit drivepool would work with Sonarr? You have been awesome help to me. Thank You Quote Link to comment
vid1953 Posted October 25, 2021 Author Share Posted October 25, 2021 Should I run a pre clear on the discs through unraid before leaving? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted October 25, 2021 Share Posted October 25, 2021 This thread seems to have gotten off track. Your data should still be there on any disk that you didn't assign as parity. Post diagnostics. Quote Link to comment
vid1953 Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 51 minutes ago, trurl said: This thread seems to have gotten off track. Your data should still be there on any disk that you didn't assign as parity. Post diagnostics. I found nothing on any of the other discs pertaining to my movie files Quote Link to comment
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