Hi, one of my hard drives stopped working so I replaced it with another one and set it to the same mount point. I am now trying to recover my data from the SnapRAID parity, but when I run "snapraid -d d11 -l fix.log fix" SnapRAID just says "Nothing to do" and exits. What am I doing wrong? I know the parity information exists, I just did a sync command with SnapRAID 2 weeks ago. Can someone please help me? Thank you!
Last edit: samwelnella 2014-06-23
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Hi,
It might sound like stupid advise, as I'm sure you've checked for the obvious:
validated d11 is correctly configured in snapraid
listed the files of last sync with "snapraid list" and validated the files show up of drive d11
ensured no snapraid sync happened after d11 crashed and also d11 mount path was not accessible during an unwanted sync
I had some crashing drives in the past and restore with snapraid several TB and just have to say: it's the best + flexible + most reliable raid/backup solution in my case for any type of data (static & as well as frequently modified).
I'm sure you get the data back if no bad mistake happened in the setup...
Cheers.
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I did the "snapraid list" command as you said and found out files only go from d1 to d5. d6-d13 are missing. I wonder what I did wrong. Time to do an inventory of what I lost and start over.
Thanks very much for you help, saved much hair pulling! Much appreciated!
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Hi, one of my hard drives stopped working so I replaced it with another one and set it to the same mount point. I am now trying to recover my data from the SnapRAID parity, but when I run "snapraid -d d11 -l fix.log fix" SnapRAID just says "Nothing to do" and exits. What am I doing wrong? I know the parity information exists, I just did a sync command with SnapRAID 2 weeks ago. Can someone please help me? Thank you!
Last edit: samwelnella 2014-06-23
Hi,
It might sound like stupid advise, as I'm sure you've checked for the obvious:
I had some crashing drives in the past and restore with snapraid several TB and just have to say: it's the best + flexible + most reliable raid/backup solution in my case for any type of data (static & as well as frequently modified).
I'm sure you get the data back if no bad mistake happened in the setup...
Cheers.
Well I feel stupid...
I did the "snapraid list" command as you said and found out files only go from d1 to d5. d6-d13 are missing. I wonder what I did wrong. Time to do an inventory of what I lost and start over.
Thanks very much for you help, saved much hair pulling! Much appreciated!
Look into /etc/snapraid.conf (or whatever conf file you might be using), maybe you just have d1-d5 configured.