Started having corruption issues with backups being stored on the LUN. Windows event viewer indicated drive corruption on the iSCSI device. Ran a chkdsk /x on the drive, and it found a lot of errors. Now, it is stuck "recovering orphaned file", and it has been this way for 3 days. There is still about a 1% constant utilization on my storage network adapter, and chkdsk and system services are taking up about 12% system resources. So, it looks like it is doing something, but its just taking a long time?
Any idea why the corruption may have occurred? Any idea how long this may take to recover? Any ideas how to avoid this in the future, or other tools I can use to get back online and recover my data?
Generally it is caused by something at the PC end or somewhere on your network. Usually it is not at the NAS end, but send your NAS logs in anyway (see the Sending Logs link in my sig).
How big is the LUN? Is it filling 90% of the volume or is there other data on the volume as well?
Is it thin/thick?
Do you recall on which firmware you created it?
You could try software such as Active File Recovery.
Do you have your iSCSI traffic going through it's own subnet and VLAN, separate to your other network traffic? If not, you definitely should consider this in future.
