mathgoy Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 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 Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 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. Quote Link to comment
mathgoy Posted April 16, 2020 Author Share Posted April 16, 2020 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... Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 The procedure you linked is specific to ReiserFS, what format are your disks? Quote Link to comment
mathgoy Posted April 17, 2020 Author Share Posted April 17, 2020 (edited) 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, 2020 by mathgoy Quote Link to comment
Knights21 Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 (edited) 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, 2021 by Knights21 Found answer Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted January 14, 2021 Share Posted January 14, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment
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