Does Parity Rebuild prevent access to Shares?

[holyscotsman]

I'm quite a bit worried as I really don't want to lose all of my data again, but looking for some assistance with a recent issue. About a week ago, my Parity drive #1 and largest drive (drive 1) both showed up as a Red status. Hovering over the Disk 1 showed that the contents were being emulated. When I hovered over the first parity drive, it showed that it was disabled. I did try rebooting the server but the same issue persisted.

 

Today, I was trying to enable VMs which requested a reboot of the server. Before I rebooted, the Shares began to act a bit funny by not showing all of the data. I proceeded with a reboot and started the Array without the 1st parity drive assigned (the 2nd Parity drive is still assigned and functioning); everything looked fine. I decided to try and Rebuild only the Parity drive. I stopped the array, re-assigned the 1st Parity drive, started the array. The Parity-Rebuild is in-progress now for the next 48 hours but I am in a state of panic as the folder where all of my contents reside is Empty. However, looking at the data consumption shows no change in state.

 

 

Unfortunately, I haven't found a reliable backup method yet outside of purchasing Should this be expected behavior for the Share to show empty while a Parity-Rebuild is in-progress? Have I perhaps buggered up my entire setup?

 

Thanks in advance for any help!

plextower-diagnostics-20230708-2350.zip

[itimpi]

It looks as several of your drives (parity, disk2, disk3, disk4) have dropped offline.   Do they have anything in common?  You should shut down the server and carefully check the power and SATA cables to the drives.

[holyscotsman]

It looks like when I enable VM Manager, I lose access to all of my shares. After Parity Check completed, I disabled the VM's, shut down the array and rebooted the server. When it came back online, the Shares were visible again.

 

Just sucks that I am not able to have VM's running along with my Docker. Would rather not risk the data loss than worry about having VMs.

 

Thank you!

[itimpi]

Are you trying to pass any hardware through to the VM?   The only reason I can think of why you would get your symptoms is if starting the VM is taking the disks away from Unraid.