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CiccioRiccio01's avatar
Nov 10, 2025
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Delete files

Hello friends of this forum! I accidentally deleted some files and the NAS did not have the recycle bin or snapshots enabled. Is there a way to recover the files before I kill myself? This is the ReadyNas Pro 4 model - Radiator 4.2.31 4 disks in Raid 2. Thanks in advance for anyone who can help me.....

  • CiccioRiccio01 wrote:

    This is the ReadyNas Pro 4 model - Radiator 4.2.31 4 disks in Raid 2

    Did you mean RAID-5?   No one uses RAID-2 anymore

     

    CiccioRiccio01 wrote:

    I accidentally deleted some files and the NAS did not have the recycle bin or snapshots enabled.

    There is an extundelete utility you could try to install from ssh (apt-get install extundelete). 

     

    Don't write anything to the NAS, as that could easily overwrite the files that you trying to recover.

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  • StephenB's avatar
    StephenB
    Guru - Experienced User
    CiccioRiccio01 wrote:

    This is the ReadyNas Pro 4 model - Radiator 4.2.31 4 disks in Raid 2

    Did you mean RAID-5?   No one uses RAID-2 anymore

     

    CiccioRiccio01 wrote:

    I accidentally deleted some files and the NAS did not have the recycle bin or snapshots enabled.

    There is an extundelete utility you could try to install from ssh (apt-get install extundelete). 

     

    Don't write anything to the NAS, as that could easily overwrite the files that you trying to recover.

    • CiccioRiccio01's avatar
      CiccioRiccio01
      Aspirant

      Grazie Stefano B per avermi risposto. Ho scritto raid 2 prendendolo dalla schermata con gli altri dati. Comunque il nas ha 4 dischi. Da quando ho cancellato i file nessuno ha fatto più l’accesso quindi spero che la sovrascrittura sia scongiurata. In ssh mi collego ma nn mi fa entrare. Eppure ho le password in quando entro in frontview….In ssh forse ci sono delle password di default? L’applicazione l’ho trovata sul sito di Recoverit wondershare pensi che va bene ?

      Grazie ancora

      • StephenB's avatar
        StephenB
        Guru - Experienced User
        CiccioRiccio01 wrote:

        L’applicazione l’ho trovata sul sito di Recoverit wondershare pensi che va bene ?

        I've never used it, but I don't believe it supports the ext file system, and I doubt you could install it on the NAS

        CiccioRiccio01 wrote:

        Ho scritto raid 2 prendendolo dalla schermata con gli altri dati.

        Likely it said XRAID-2, which is not at all the same as RAID-2.

         

        CiccioRiccio01 wrote:

        In ssh mi collego ma nn mi fa entrare. Eppure ho le password in quando entro in frontview….In ssh forse ci sono delle password di default?

        Have you ever used SSH on this NAS before? 

        Also, do you have any experience with SSH?

         

        Another option would be to contact a data recovery service, and see if they can retrieve the files for you.  That might be safer than attempting it yourself.

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