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CiccioRiccio01
Nov 10, 2025Aspirant
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 Rea...
- Nov 10, 2025
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.
StephenB
Nov 10, 2025Guru - 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.
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