josephnv Posted February 14, 2014 Author Share #1 Posted February 14, 2014 Hi, So I had a power cut earlier today and it messed some of my configuration on my HP N54L Microserver up. I had to run a series of tests on my disks before DSM would let me use them. Once it was all done, and everything was fine again, I noticed my shares weren't showing up over SMB or AFP. So, I went into "shared folders" and deleted the shares and added them again. I thought that had fixed it, since I could then get access to everything again. It wasn't until a few minutes later that I noticed the hard drives were whirring like mad. I went into Storage Manager and saw that the disks had totally EMPTIED THEMSEVLES! What on earth?! In Windows and any other software I have EVER used, "shares" are just paths to the actual files on the hard drives. Deleting a "share" doesn't touch the actual physical storage. What on earth has happened here?! As soon as I realised, I pulled all the hard drives out of the server by hand. There's 6TB of storage at stake here, I was nominated by our family to keep hold of all our beloved photos and videos et cetera, where the hell have they all gone?! Before I try to recover the data using Recuva or something similar, is there anything easier I can try? Thanks for any help you gan give me in advance. Joseph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josephnv Posted February 14, 2014 Share #2 Posted February 14, 2014 Hi, So I had a power cut earlier today and it messed some of my configuration on my HP N54L Microserver up. I had to run a series of tests on my disks before DSM would let me use them. Once it was all done, and everything was fine again, I noticed my shares weren't showing up over SMB or AFP. So, I went into "shared folders" and deleted the shares and added them again. I thought that had fixed it, since I could then get access to everything again. It wasn't until a few minutes later that I noticed the hard drives were whirring like mad. I went into Storage Manager and saw that the disks had totally EMPTIED THEMSEVLES! What on earth?! In Windows and any other software I have EVER used, "shares" are just paths to the actual files on the hard drives. Deleting a "share" doesn't touch the actual physical storage. What on earth has happened here?! As soon as I realised, I pulled all the hard drives out of the server by hand. There's 6TB of storage at stake here, I was nominated by our family to keep hold of all our beloved photos and videos et cetera, where the hell have they all gone?! Before I try to recover the data using Recuva or something similar, is there anything easier I can try? Thanks for any help you gan give me in advance. Joseph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josephnv Posted February 14, 2014 Author Share #3 Posted February 14, 2014 I've calmed down a bit now...decided to go ahead with testdisk in Ubuntu liveUSB. Ought to be plain sailing from here...right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josephnv Posted February 14, 2014 Author Share #4 Posted February 14, 2014 I've calmed down a bit now...decided to go ahead with testdisk in Ubuntu liveUSB. Ought to be plain sailing from here...right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrecar Posted February 16, 2014 Share #5 Posted February 16, 2014 Sounds like you actually deleted your files. It took me a mistake like this to teach me the importance of secondary backups. (And enabling recycle bin) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xrecar Posted February 16, 2014 Share #6 Posted February 16, 2014 Sounds like you actually deleted your files. It took me a mistake like this to teach me the importance of secondary backups. (And enabling recycle bin) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goddamnit Posted February 16, 2014 Share #7 Posted February 16, 2014 Shares is something that store your data Try recover software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goddamnit Posted February 16, 2014 Share #8 Posted February 16, 2014 Shares is something that store your data Try recover software Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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