October 31, 20214 yr Hello everyone, Last week my server had a power failure and when I tried to turn it back on it wouldn't boot and it appeared that my USB drive had corrupted. I tried to salvage the files on the USB drive but was unable to and just caved in and reformatted and flashed it. As I found in the official documentation here I should be able to get my files back by just re-adding the drives and making sure the parity disks are correct. However, when I tried this all my drives were showing only +/- 3GB used while a few of them were pretty much full. I understand that I will not get apps/VM configs back but I have no problem with re-configuring these. Does anyone know what I should try to get my files to be recognized? I only have 4 drives so if I need to keep rearranging them in the config that should not take too long, but from what I could find this does not matter. Thanks in advance, Merobieboy
October 31, 20214 yr Author 14 minutes ago, trurl said: Attach diagnostics to your NEXT post in this thread. nas-diagnostics-20211031-1643.zip
October 31, 20214 yr Community Expert Looks like you must have formatted them, but I don't see it in your syslog. Anything more you can tell us? 2 hours ago, Merobieboy said: making sure the parity disks are correct. There was nothing in your diagnostics that indicated you had any parity disks so it seems like you may have left out some details about what you may have done.
October 31, 20214 yr Author 2 hours ago, trurl said: Looks like you must have formatted them, but I don't see it in your syslog. Anything more you can tell us? There was nothing in your diagnostics that indicated you had any parity disks so it seems like you may have left out some details about what you may have done. What you said about formatting made me think and I realized I have made the terrible mistake of leaving port 80 open pointing to the server (The IP address used to belong to a windows server instance with IIS) and I think someone logged in from outside and formatted the system. I have now closed the port so this cannot happen again, and luckily there wasn't any critical data on there (just my Plex library) so it's a good lesson for the future. Thank you for your time.
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