Gents,

I was fine tuning my emby server into the Emby Settings when, for some reason, it deleted my whole movie folder.

I don't know what I did wrong, I simply deleted an automatically generated thumbnail for my library and the folder was gone. But well, a mistake was probably made, here is not the question.

When I saw the folder disappeared, I immediately shutdown the array.

I took each disk separately and scanned them with UFS Explorer. I can see all my missing files however, when I recover them, they are heavily corrupted. Bits are missing so most of the movies won't play. I suspect that maybe some data are spread across several disks.

 

therefore my question is the following:

What would be the best way to recover those data (that are still physically on the disks) ?

Thanks for your support

4 hours ago, mathgoy said:

I suspect that maybe some data are spread across several disks.

That's definitely not the issue, as each disk has an independent file system.

I suspect the actual issue to be fragmentation, which is not really solvable by affordable recovery solutions. If UFS explorer can't get a clean recovery, I believe your most efficient course of action would be to restore from backup, or re-rip your collection.

 

Sorry, but that's been my experience in the past.

thanks for your feedback!

You must be right. I was wondering whether there was any way to "undelete".

I'll go ahead with that procedure and if it fails, I'll probably re-rip the collection. Containment is a good time for that...

The procedure you linked is specific to ReiserFS, what format are your disks?

XFS.

So I guess this won't work.

Any other idea to recover those files,

It's super frustrating becaus eI can see the data is here an it's like it wouldn't take much to have that media folder back!!!

Edited April 17, 20206 yr by mathgoy

Is there still no simply way of undeleting a single file in V6.8.3?

I know with some work it can be retrieved from one of the discs before a parity check wipes it from all but it seems to be an obvious but missing tool?

 

Wait, wait, now found this thread to add a recycle bin:

 

So hopefully people looking for 'undelete' in the future will see this.

Edited January 14, 20215 yr by Knights21
Found answer

14 hours ago, Knights21 said:

I know with some work it can be retrieved from one of the discs before a parity check wipes it

No. Parity check only confirms that the real time parity calculations have been maintained correctly.