Guys, i need help, please.  And fast.

I seem to have lost a swathe of my data.  And i'm in a panic.

 

Background is, i installed a new disk (disk 10) in the array last Sunday.  All good.

By Monday morning it was online, so i copied the content of an old disk (disk 2) to the new disk 10.

Plan was...that if the migration was good, i would remove disk2.

 

On Monday i ran the following command :-

rsync -r /mnt/DISK2 /mnt/DISK10

All went well, except all the date/time stamps were out of alignment.

 

On Tuesday i ran the following command :-

rsync -a /mnt/DISK2 /mnt/DISK10

Now all the date/time stamps were aligned.  Great.

 

But tonight (Thursday) i happened to go looking for some work files.

About 30% of my work data is missing.

Its not on disk2 and its not on disk10.

 

Surely these x2 exercises i have run, couldnt cause data loss ????

 

Can anyone suggest how i get eyes into what has happened

 

Richard

 

 

You should post diagnostics so someone can see what your setup looks like

 

The way you directly worked with disks can be confusing if the disks are part of an array. Your user shares are a combined view across all disks in array, so if the disks are on array, try checking the user share 

Edited January 27, 20233 yr by apandey

Apandey, thx for your response.

As it happens, i awoke this morning & suddenly realised i had made a mistake.

Although my data was originally on disk2, i had also started using disk4 more recently.

In the rush last night of trying to find certain business data, i completely forgot.

 

Although i am embarrassed, i am also hugely relieved to have found my data.

 

Moderators - you can close/delete this thread as you wish.

 

Richard