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Readynas 104 FlexRaid 6 File recovery
Hi,
I have a readynas 104 set up with Flexraid 6 and the recycle bin feature is turned off etc. I recently accidentally deleted some files and really need to recover them. Things looked a lot e...
Hi, Thanks for the reply. No snapshots are not enabled (otherwise I would have just recovered using this feature). I tried reclaime but couldnt get it to install, but to be honest i am surprised that is the only windows based software out there.
Regarding the linux method, is there a step by step guide with commands? I'm willing to try it but don't have a huge amount of Linux experience hence the guide would really help. Just to be clear, would the linux method allow me to scan for deleted files and check what they are before recovering (using a GUI) ? Listing the deleted files via command line would be a pain as i suspect there will be a lot, plus I'm not 100% sure if the files I'm looking for were actually on the NAS (long story)
Brenning wrote:
I tried reclaime but couldnt get it to install, but to be honest i am surprised that is the only windows based software out there.
There isn't a lot of Windows software that works with ext either.
What version of windows are you using? I haven't seen any posts on ReclaiMe install issues here before.
Brenning wrote:
No snapshots are not enabled (otherwise I would have just recovered using this feature).
I thought so, but thought I'd confirm (since there is no recycle bin feature on OS-6 NAS unless you add that with ssh).
Brenning wrote:
Regarding the linux method, is there a step by step guide with commands? I'm willing to try it but don't have a huge amount of Linux experience hence the guide would really help. Just to be clear, would the linux method allow me to scan for deleted files and check what they are before recovering (using a GUI) ? Listing the deleted files via command line would be a pain as i suspect there will be a lot, plus I'm not 100% sure if the files I'm looking for were actually on the NAS (long story)
It would require using the command line interface, and it isn't easy. If you are prepared to pay for ReclaiMe, then perhaps consider using Netgear's data recovery service ( https://kb.netgear.com/69/ReadyNAS-Data-Recovery-Diagnostics-Scope-of-Service ).
Thanks for the replies so far. I now have the raid volume mounted in Linux and can see all of the current data. I have a spare 8TB drive and would like to restore any deleted files to this. Is there a command i can run to just restore anything thats been deleted to this other drive without copying the current data?
I haven't tried this, but there is a script that might work at https://gist.github.com/Changaco/45f8d171027ea2655d74
It's important whichever method you use that you don't restore the files directly to the same volume that you are recovering data from. If you write to the data volume it will overwrite at least some of the deleted data further reducing the chances of data recovery.
It's also important to avoid running volume maintenance (especially defrag + balance) as some of these operations would make lots of writes to the data volume.
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