Hello,

(I thought I posted this before I left work earlier but I am not seeing anything for it in my account, so maybe it didnt go through. If this is a double please delete one.)

This morning my server was running fine all files were present. CPU usage was at 100% (had been for a couple days) but I didn't think anything of it because I was running a pre-clear on a new HDD. The preclear finished sometime today and I believe it was after that that I started having issues, but possibly not.

The preclear finished successfully but the cpu usage stayed at 100% and since my files were missing and even my shares were not displaying (system had been up for about a month since the last reboot at this point) I looked into the cpu usage and found that I had XMRIG running and found out what that was.... after trial and error I found that it was tied to the Obsidian docker so I disabled that and fixed the CPU issue.

Now I have rebooted multiple times and tried everything I could find through searches checking permissions and trying xfs_repair. I have not been able to figure this out.

I am currently back to the shares displaying and the folders for the shares folders being on the disks but the folders are empty and the disks are showing empty on the MAIN tab for Unraid. I have checked the directories on the disks themselves through the command line and they are showing empty.

Can anyone help me figure out why my files are not showing up? I had about 30TB of data across 6 Disks plus a Parity disk.

My diagnostics file is attached.

Thank you for any help provided!

tower-diagnostics-20260217-1236.zip

tower-diagnostics-20260217-1123.zip

Edited February 17Feb 17 by Neocold

The diagnostics show that all disks are empty which suggests that somehow they were formatted or a global delete was run. You do not have your server exposed to the internet by any chance as there have been occurrences of bad actors doing this in the past.

I would think your best chance of recovering any data is to see if a file recovery program like UFS Explorer on Windows can see anything. That software is not free, but it does have a free trial that would show what (if anything) it could recover.