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New NAS Erased data on ANOTHER NAS in network!!!
Hi All There are 4 people who work at my company, and 3 of them have a NAS. Everyone is networked together, but no one has each other's password. I was put in charge of installing an old ReadyNAS...
Looks like I lost my job. I think I'm pretty much bearing 100% of the hit for this nightmare...so unfortunately I won't be able to get back in there to confirm what exactly happened.
I asked them how they verified that the data was gone, and the response was that "the front panel NAS shows 2.6 of 2.7 GB free, IP has changed, permission have been reset, and the drive has been renamed". My suspicion is that the data is still there, something happened to the IP and the NAS doesn't know where to look for the data and so it's reading as empty. The last I heard they were taking the drives out for data recovery.
Unfortunately that's all the info I have. It's a mystery to me because both you and Netgear tech support have told me the same thing: that this is impossible. Well, impossible it may be, it happened...some horrendous bug must have caused this.
Thank you so much for all your help.
I hope the guy gets his data back.
I asked them how they verified that the data was gone, and the response was that "the front panel NAS shows 2.6 of 2.7 GB free, IP has changed, permission have been reset, and the drive has been renamed". My suspicion is that the data is still there, something happened to the IP and the NAS doesn't know where to look for the data and so it's reading as empty. The last I heard they were taking the drives out for data recovery.
Unfortunately that's all the info I have. It's a mystery to me because both you and Netgear tech support have told me the same thing: that this is impossible. Well, impossible it may be, it happened...some horrendous bug must have caused this.
Thank you so much for all your help.
I hope the guy gets his data back.
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