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sg86
Mar 09, 2020Aspirant
Recover files on RAID5 with Extundelete?
So I've done a lot of reading and know this is my fault! However I still think there is a chance I can recover some files, so just wanted to ask here as a last resort.
I have a 4 disk (4TB x 4) setup in RAID 5.
I'm just trying to understand how this is seen as a raw device, it looks like the partition/device that contains the shares is /dev/md127 ?
cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid10] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] md127 : active raid5 sdb3[0] sdc3[3] sdd3[2] sda3[1] 11706506496 blocks super 1.2 level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] md1 : active raid6 sda2[0] sdd2[3] sdc2[2] sdb2[1] 1047424 blocks super 1.2 level 6, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/4] [UUUU] md0 : active raid1 sda1[0] sdd1[3] sdc1[2] sdb1[1] 4190208 blocks super 1.2 [4/4] [UUUU]
The only option is to run extundelete on the NAS itself because I don't have a drive large enough to clone this array. What device should I be trying to run this on, and is it possible to unmount a share temporarily, maybe that will help?
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- sg86Aspirant
Ok thanks for this, are there any other options? I am currently looking at running photorec directly on that /dev/md127 device, but no option to look at a specific folder so its going to take some time!
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