December 17, 20214 yr A week ago the power went out during a parity check. Just now I've realized that a directory with lots of data was now freshly created by one of my docker containers. When I went to the web UI for a docker container: FoundryVTT, it asked me for license information. It hadn't done things since installation. When I put it in I found all my user data was missing. I checked my share called Archive in the D&D directory where FoundryVTT stores my data, and there were just the a few empty directories created by Foundry. I have four years of Dungeons and Dragons campaign notes that were in Archive\D&D. Is there a way to restore the directory from the parity drive?
December 17, 20214 yr Community Expert 15 minutes ago, DrMungkee said: Is there a way to restore the directory from the parity drive? No - the parity drive contains no user data and does not work at the file level. It works at the whole drive level to restore the expected bit pattern after a drive fails. It cannot handle anything that works at a different level. you should always have backups for anything important to you - parity is not a substitute for backups. If you have the CA Backup plug-in installed it might have made a backup of the containers appdata folder that is still available? the system crashing during a parity check should not have caused data loss. Something else must have happened to cause that.
December 17, 20214 yr Community Expert 16 minutes ago, itimpi said: CA Backup plug-in installed yes you do. How do you have it configured?
December 17, 20214 yr Author Solution I've figured out what happened. I moved the D&D folder into another sub-folder of the same share about a month ago to re-organize some stuff and forgot about it (getting old I guess). I was trying to diagnose why a docker container lost its configurations and didn't connect the dots right away. I'm sorry to have wasted people's time, but thankfully, attempting to answer your questions jogged my memory and I found my stuff again. I'm elated. Thank you all!
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