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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 Rea...
  • StephenB's avatar
    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.

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