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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) s...
StephenB
Mar 09, 2020Guru - Experienced User
sg86 wrote:
The only option is to run extundelete on the NAS itself because I don't have a drive large enough to clone this array.
extundelete won't work because the NAS uses btrfs for the data volume (not ext).
The RAID array for the data volume is /dev/md127
- sg86Mar 09, 2020Aspirant
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!
- sg86Mar 09, 2020Aspirant
Also StephenB is it possible to safely unmount /dev/md127 so i can try and run btrfs on it?
- StephenBMar 09, 2020Guru - Experienced User
sg86 wrote:
Also StephenB is it possible to safely unmount /dev/md127 so i can try and run btrfs on it?
Yes. One option is to reboot the NAS in tech support mode.
After that you log in with telnet, using root as the username and infr8ntdebug as the password.
After you are logged in, you'd enter
# rnutil chroot
which will both start RAID and chroot. But it will not mount the data volume.
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