March 26, 20197 yr I have a 48 TB drive that use for backing up my DVDs. Recently, I accidentally deleted memory of one of my 8 tb drives. I removed the drive plugged it into my computer and used UFS file explorer to recover the deleted files. All (or most) of the missing files show up on UFS file explorer but I don't know how to properly restore those files on the particular drive that the files were deleted on. How do I go about doing this?
March 27, 20197 yr If you are asking how to restore files in place, you can't, for good reason. You must copy the files to a different location first, and then after you have recovered everything you can copy them back. If you write to the drive you are doing the recovery from you will likely corrupt the recovery. Your question is unclear to me, so if you want better advice I'd suggest being a little more detailed and specific. Firstly, I am not aware of a 48TB drive, the largest I've seen generally available is 15TB.
March 29, 20197 yr Author I have seven drives in the array. Two are parity drives and the other five are for storing video files. I tried adding some of the files to another drive in the array but for some reason the unraid dashboard shows that the files have taken up space in the missing disk slot. Why is this happening? Does this mean that the array will add the files back to disk 1 once I put the disk back in the server?
March 29, 20197 yr Community Expert The missing drive is being emulated using the combination of the other drives plus parity. When you put a replacement drive in then Unraid will rebuild the drive so that it’s contents match the emulated drive, Having said that how how did you move the data? If you explicitly sent it to a specific drive that is where it should have ended up. If you sent it to a User Share then the placement rules for that share would have come into play, and that could result in the files being sent to the emulated drive.
March 29, 20197 yr Author I didn't mean to send it to the missing drive slot. I just started adding files to the server array thinking it would wind up disk 5.
March 29, 20197 yr Community Expert 10 hours ago, cdixon said: I didn't mean to send it to the missing drive slot. I just started adding files to the server array thinking it would wind up disk 5. Ok that makes sense. As far as Unraid is concerned an ‘emulated’ drive is available for use even though it may not physically be present. Since disk1 is the drive with the most free space it is not unreasonable for it to be selected as the target drive.
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