October 18, 201312 yr Hi, I have been running 5.0betaXX for many years and decided to switch to the release version. I started from a fresh installation disk using my old disk configuration. Before switching over to the new version I noticed that all my disks were 100% full. I found out that my backup script went crazy and filled up all my free space. I cleaned it up, ran a parity check and upgraded. Everything went very smooth. Recently I decided to perform my regular rsync task from my external HDD to unRAID (photos & videos) and noticed that old files were uploading even if I haven't used them for ages. I interrupted the process and looked at the user share and found out that I have more than twenty empty directories. I also looked at the physical drive (/mnt/user/disk1/PHOTOS) and found the same empty directory. For information, this particular share only uses one physical disk. I also don't use any cache drive. I have been able to sync the missing files but I now I'm very worried about the other user shares. Have I lost other files? Could this be linked to the 100% usage prior to the upgrade to 5.0 release? If not how can I investigate it? Talked to a friend of mine who is running the same setup and he has experienced the exact same problem and is unRAID is about 99% full.
October 18, 201312 yr Author rsync can remove files depending on options used. I don't think it is related to rsync as my friend who has the same issue doesn't use rsync at all. It has many empty directories as well with lots of vanished files. In my case I have been using the same rsync script for many years using a source that still has the files. I also closely monitor rsync output to check what has been uploaded and deleted. FYI, I just ran a hashdeep between the known good source and the damaged user share and found about 3255 missing files out of 61565.
October 18, 201312 yr are you sure that this particular share use only one disk? did you specifically restricted the share to one disk? check other disks. I have a basic setup (3 drives) both of my data disks have a set of folders for each and every share I have created. but only one disk have the files with in the folders. the second disk contains only empty folders on it. I think unraid creates a folder place holders when you designate a share, but only use one disk at a time until the fill threshold is reached, than it starts filling up the second disk.
October 18, 201312 yr Author From day one, this particular user share was setup including only one physical drive and excluding the others. This has never been touched. I also checked each of the /mnt/diskX drive but couldn't find any trace of the missing files.
October 18, 201312 yr From day one, this particular user share was setup including only one physical drive and excluding the others. This has never been touched. I also checked each of the /mnt/diskX drive but couldn't find any trace of the missing files. I doubt that it's the cause of this specific issue, but you should NOT have both "includes" and "excludes" ==> use one or the other, but not both. If you list specific disks to include, then no others will be part of the share; likewise if you list specific disks to exclude, then all disks except those will be part of the share.
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