EnduroFurry Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 First of all, Im drasticly Under informed when it comes to knowing how linux systems work. I know the minimum and I didnt set this system up myself. I also think it was set up poorly to begin with. After a power outage my system came back online showing XFS errors "Metadata corruption" I went through the process of starting the array in maintenance Mode going to the disk and running the repair. The repair would run but it would still show as unmountable or no file system. My raid array is a hardware raid through a raid card so it only shows up as 1 disk in unraid. Not that that means anything. If i run the repair status again with -N it says everything looks fine. If i reboot the system it will need repairs again. Im going to guess I have a bad drive but i have no idea how to find out which one it is. Or if thats even the case. The info on the system is not replacable. I wouldnt die if i lost it but its pretty much all my photos and videos i took of my life as a kid. I would say its important. Quote Link to comment
itimpi Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Do you mean that you ran the xfs_repair without -n and it still showed as unmountable when you start the array in normal mode? That is very unusual! You really need to put in place a process for backing up important data that is not easily replaceable. Quote Link to comment
EnduroFurry Posted January 15 Author Share Posted January 15 Yes I ran it without the -N, im aware having redundant systems in separate locations is the way to go. For mostly complete security of data loss. I don’t have the money to do so. I was gifted this system for repairing a neighbor’s dirtbike years ago. I’m talking back in 2012. The drives I believe are newer as I had him upgrade them in 2015. The system is in raid 5 so it is lossless redundancy if I have lost 1 drive I will still be completely fine. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 1 hour ago, EnduroFurry said: My raid array is a hardware raid through a raid card so it only shows up as 1 disk in unraid. This is not recommended and may be part of the problem, you can still post the diags to see if there's anything visible there. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 1 hour ago, EnduroFurry said: My raid array is a hardware raid through a raid card so it only shows up as 1 disk in unraid. Not that that means anything. It means everything. This is not the way Unraid is designed to work. This likely means Unraid is irrelevant to troubleshooting your problems and recovering your data. 1 hour ago, EnduroFurry said: all my photos and videos i took of my life as a kid. I would say its important. A single copy of important data is always a very bad idea whatever your setup is. You may have to rely on whatever capabilities your RAID hardware has to troubleshoot. Or seek professional help. What version of Unraid do you have? Quote Link to comment
EnduroFurry Posted January 15 Author Share Posted January 15 6 minutes ago, JorgeB said: This is not recommended and may be part of the problem, you can still post the diags to see if there's anything visible there. I’m not sure how to do that. Again I don’t know much about the system it wasn’t set up by me so I didn’t do research on it. 4 minutes ago, trurl said: It means everything. This is not the way Unraid is designed to work. This likely means Unraid is irrelevant to troubleshooting your problems and recovering your data. A single copy of important data is always a very bad idea whatever your setup is. You may have to rely on whatever capabilities your RAID hardware has to troubleshoot. Or seek professional help. What version of Unraid do you have? It may not be the place to solve my issue but I’m not sure were else to turn to. as I already stated, I’m very aware a single copy is a poor choice. I didn’t have a choice as I went through a motorcycle accident that left me unable to work for 4 years. I had to sell everything I had to stay afloat. Literally the only thing I kept was that server blade. Which I even sold the cpu and ram from at the time as well and bought back later. It’s been on my list of things to deal with just didn’t work out it seems. I have no idea what the raid card has. It’s from 2009 I doubt it’s going to be much help. Reading through unraids repair log though it’s finding all the files in the drives so I don’t think they’re gone it’s just not able to establish paths I think or names for some of them. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 16 minutes ago, EnduroFurry said: I have no idea what the raid card has. This is irrelevant to Unraid. 29 minutes ago, trurl said: What version of Unraid do you have? Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Did you run check filesystem from the webUI? It sounds like it, but I always ask since it is easy to get the command wrong. Do it again, with -n for now, and capture the output so you can post it. Also, attach Diagnostics to your NEXT post in this thread. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted January 15 Share Posted January 15 Perhaps a RAID problem is preventing check filesystem from working well. Maybe you need to use whatever your RAID provides for fixing that RAID array, to get that fixed first, then we could make some progress. If you post diagnostics, it could tell us more about your hardware, including your RAID controller. Then we would have more information than you have provided so far. Quote Link to comment
EnduroFurry Posted January 15 Author Share Posted January 15 Sorry for the late responce it was 3am and i needed to get some sleep Im using 6.11.1 Yes i ran it with the GUI Here are the 2 reports you asked for. New devolopment. I got the Array to dock and come online. However i have no idea how to see whats in the array. there paths were messed up. In the past I needed run the repair every time the server restarted so im going to leave it online and wait futher instructions. XFS repair output.txt toasterstorage-diagnostics-20240115-1409.zip Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 I would really recommend recreating the array with a non RAID controller and giving Unraid direct access to the disks, the configuration you are using is not recommended, but if you have filesystem issues after every reboot it's beyond just not recommended, it should not really be used. Quote Link to comment
EnduroFurry Posted January 16 Author Share Posted January 16 13 minutes ago, JorgeB said: I would really recommend recreating the array with a non RAID controller and giving Unraid direct access to the disks, the configuration you are using is not recommended, but if you have filesystem issues after every reboot it's beyond just not recommended, it should not really be used. I would however this system uses SAS drives and i dont have the required parts to convert it. Right now my main consern is to get my important data off. then I can play with it wipe it etc. I risk loosing the raid if i mess with it. I just want to pull the data that it does see while i can. Keep in mind this was not a problem i for many years. its not like this is a first set up and it doesnt work. Something changed i may have a bad drive or a faulty raid card. but as i stated before i want help figuring out the mapping while unraid reports no errors and things are working. Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 You can use SAS drives with for example an LSI HBA. 25 minutes ago, EnduroFurry said: Right now my main consern is to get my important data off. Try to repair the filesystem, run xfs_repair without -n, and re-start the array. Quote Link to comment
EnduroFurry Posted January 16 Author Share Posted January 16 11 minutes ago, JorgeB said: You can use SAS drives with for example an LSI HBA. Try to repair the filesystem, run xfs_repair without -n, and re-start the array. I already did the repair. As stated above. Right now unraid sees the raid and thinks everything is ok. I want to pull my data off before doing anything further. If what I found is true and every time I power it down it causes more corruption I want to avoid that so I can keep as much data as possible. I have no clue how to proceed. do I set up file shares with the new paths? So I can pull that data onto another system? I never set any of this stuff up so I don’t understand how this network attached storage actually got onto my my main system. Right now if I click my pinned access to the file system on my main rig it says it cant fine the path. its 3:30am again for me. I will catch up with replies in 8 ish hours Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 From these latest diagnostics: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on ... /dev/md1 6.4T 4.4T 2.0T 69% /mnt/disk1 shfs 6.4T 4.4T 2.0T 69% /mnt/user0 shfs 6.4T 4.4T 2.0T 69% /mnt/user ... This would seem to indicate you have data on disk1 (the RAID array I presume), and user shares has that same data. However, the shares folder in your diagnostics disagrees. Just to check again, what do you currently get from command line with this? df -h Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 1 hour ago, EnduroFurry said: I already did the repair. OK, the log you posted before was with -n, if it's repaired just copy everything somewhere else, you can use for example UD to map a network share or just copy to a spare unassinged disk. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 21 hours ago, trurl said: use whatever your RAID provides for fixing that RAID array If there are one or more bad disks (or even just bad connections) in the RAID, then that might be preventing xfs_repair from really making any progress. Quote Link to comment
EnduroFurry Posted January 17 Author Share Posted January 17 We are going through another storm and i have not had power today. I will be back in the next few days to answer your requests when i have power, Hopefully in the next 24 hours Quote Link to comment
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