HI,

 

I used Midnight COmmander to move a movie folder from one drive to the MOVIES shared folder..but it looks like it wiped the entire folder..the folder is no longer there BUT all the space is as it was. I had a quick look in the actual disk1, disk2, disk3 etc and the folder is not there either.

 

Is there a way to get this back ?

Noone ?

So you had a movies folder on several different disks.  That folder then appeared as a share. 

 

You did this copy and the directory itself has disappeared, on all of the disks?

 

 

Yes.... I had say Inception folder in a download folder..I then used Midnight Commander to move that to the shared Folder 'Movies' butit must have overwritten it or something as neither the 'Inception' folder or the shared folder existed after that. You know how you drag and drop a folder to the root directory of a area it then appears UNDER that first directory. The movies folder was gone from all 7 disks.

 

running a fsk against one of the disks found nothing so I havent bothered looking at the other drives

79 views and only one comment ? Surely this product cant be that dangerous that something like this can have disasterous effects. Why isnt the folder actually read only until you absolutely need it removed but the content is rw.. Can this be done in future ?

I suspect the reason you have had so few replies is that your description of the issue is hard to follow. If the the amount of data on the server has stayed constant then I suspect that the data was placed in a location that you were not suspecting. How much data do you have on your server? How much data was in the Movies share? Midnight Commander has been rock solid for me. I would first look for the data using something like WinDirStat to determine what is taking up the space that the Movies user share used to.

 

I cant see how I can make it any less hard to follow..

 

I have 7 drives.. four user shared folders TV, Movies, Downloads, Music. Movies had about 1.6TB (I have about 5.6TB total). I used MC to move (F6) from Downloads user share folder to Movies user share folder. But after the move.. the Movies folder now longer shows up on any drives (It was present on all 7). And it no longer appears in the unraid console.

 

It was gone.BUT the space didnt delete, so I assume just the pointers changed but the data is there. Thats whats weird. I ran the reisferfsk as commected in other posts but it found nothing.

 

And thats where I am now stuck for 2 days.

the move command can also be used to rename files and folders.

 

It could be possible that your "move" ended up renaming the Movies folder to "Downloads"

 

Try checking for that and see what you come up with.  You may need to mount the disk shares themselves to check.

it is almost certain you just moved your data somewhere odd. I use mc every day and have never even heard of it making a non user error before.

 

search your entire fs for the data

From your description I am fairly certain that your data is still there. Reiserfsck is useful when the filesystem tree shows damage. Since that passed and you still have the same amount of data on the disk, then the most logical conclusion is that the data is still there, time to go searching. Movie files are large and fairly easy to find, but they may be buried. I echo the suggestion to look in each disk share. To export disk shares use the web management interface Shares > Export settings > Disk shares (SMB): > Export read/write. The tool I mentioned earlier is wonderful for discovering quickly where things are hidden (WinDirStat). But even a simple windows search should find something so big as movies I recommend searching for *.mkv or *.iso or whatever format your movies were in on each disk share.

 

As a reformed User Share user, I recommend using disk shares whenever possible, for example, using MC if the files were moved from //Tower/disk1/Downloads to //Tower/disk1/Movies no data would have to be moved, just the pointers to that data. I have shortcuts to all of my disk shares when I want to manage things. I generally moving things from my cache drive to one of these disk shares. I usually use TeraCopy so the data travels from my server to my Windows desktop and then back to a disk share on my server. I do it this way because it is easy, I can do CRC checks on the data moved and it is almost as fast as MC. For large moves I use MC.

 

I know it can be very frustrating to loose large chunks of data. In your case, I think there will be a happy ending. Good luck.

Dragging and dropping a movie folder into the user share should not have hurt the user share. I drag and drop all the time and the only times something goes wrong is when I make the mistake.

 

I have had a drag and drop between user shares keep the data on the same disk even though the share settings said otherwise. So, you likely accidentally clicked, dragged and then dropped the Movies share folder by mistake and it's now in one of the other shares. You will have to turn-on disk shares and then go find it on each disk and drag it back to the root of each disk.

 

The fact that running the Reiserfsk check didn't find anything also point to you having done an incorrect move compared to the files being deleted. If they were deleted then it should have found most if not all of the deleted files.

 

You will then have to re-create the user share settings again when you get the directory back. An array start/stop might be necessary to make that share re-appear in the list.

 

Peter