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armybill
Sep 01, 2016Aspirant
HELP!!! Deleted a User and I Lost my files!
So I am a mac user, but I recently bought a gaming PC to use just for games, I use my ReadyNAS to hold media that I watch on TVs with have mac minis which are HTPC Anyways, my computer came ...
- Sep 02, 2016
Recreating the user after deleting it was not good and doing a scrub wasn't helpful. Essentially the history has been wiped away.
Did you clone the disks before you put them back in the NAS?Once you delete data it's important to stop making changes straight away to maximise chances of data recovery and if you do want to experiment clone the disks first.
BTRFS keeps transactional history in roots. When you delete files there may be some transactional history kept, but once that's gone there's not anything we can do.
You could try the ReclaiMe software again if you like.
armybill
Sep 02, 2016Aspirant
Haha ya that's true
As luck would have it we actually found a complete backup of all our pictures on a external drive that I thought I had deleted
Ya I bought this NAS to back up data I had spread across many external drives and some where over 5 years old and we're starting to make scary noises haha
I figured a NAS would be the safest place for my data, but I forgot to factor in my own dumbassess when deciding how to use it,
We have lost about 5tb of data, but most of that was a huge collection of university lectures and software backups of programs I like, so now that we've found a backup of the pics I won't be murdered by wife
But now that I understand I'm gonna back up the important things on my NAS to an external drive
I appreciate the help!
As luck would have it we actually found a complete backup of all our pictures on a external drive that I thought I had deleted
Ya I bought this NAS to back up data I had spread across many external drives and some where over 5 years old and we're starting to make scary noises haha
I figured a NAS would be the safest place for my data, but I forgot to factor in my own dumbassess when deciding how to use it,
We have lost about 5tb of data, but most of that was a huge collection of university lectures and software backups of programs I like, so now that we've found a backup of the pics I won't be murdered by wife
But now that I understand I'm gonna back up the important things on my NAS to an external drive
I appreciate the help!
mdgm-ntgr
Sep 02, 2016NETGEAR Employee Retired
Glad you found a copy of your photos!
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