David3D
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Hey guys,
So I've got a bit of a problem.
I have an old FreeNAS box which I was using for testing/fun purposes and junk files which I believed had no important data on it. Of course that is what I thought until I couldn't find what I wanted one day and figured it must be on the old box.
Version I'm using: FreeNAS-9.1.0-RELEASE-x64 (dff7d13)
First I saw that Alert System was telling me that the volumes I wanted to access was "UNKNOWN". I tried rebooting and after a few reboots, instead of defaulting to unknown, it just wouldn't boot with the affected drives attached and instead telling me the following:
'Mounting local file systems:.
cannot import '8582060359732297958' : no such pool available'
Then continues on to say
ATA status: 51 (DRDY SERV ERR), error: 04 (ABRT )
Error 5, Retries exhausted
...etc...etc
I don't know exactly what is important in order to best give everyone the best information. I've tried sourcing logs from /var/log/dmesg.yesterday but it does not seem to contain what I saw on the console screen. I did however, video it if that helps, haha :)
I've got a feeling the data is gone, since one drive is probably dead. They were not striped. But I believe the configuration was a mirror on a hardware RAID. The server wasn't exactly at spec either.
I know all this now of course, other important data is on a much better server that is running flawlessly with regular 60 minute backups..etc, which is why this server was retired, because I relised I was freakin' stupid. Obviously I missed the data mirrored across two 500GB drives and here we are.
I completed a search and I might be blind, but I could not find my specific error. Perhaps my problem manifests itself in different ways, or what I've posted is of no help at all...But I can't seem to see any road to recovery at this point.
I have both drives free from the server and can plug them in where ever I wish. I've seen posts regarding ZFS recovery scripts (experimental ones) and posts on using Linux to recover bad ZFS pools.
I basically just need a direction to follow. Anything I should or shouldn't do with the drives? Any live CD recommendations for recovery of ZFS pools/volumes?
I'm probably just being an ignorant n00b thinking I'll be getting any of it back. Any more information you need, it's yours! If I knew what info you needed for this issue it would be included, but I'm totally green!
Any help at all is appreciated.
Cheers guys!
David
So I've got a bit of a problem.
I have an old FreeNAS box which I was using for testing/fun purposes and junk files which I believed had no important data on it. Of course that is what I thought until I couldn't find what I wanted one day and figured it must be on the old box.
Version I'm using: FreeNAS-9.1.0-RELEASE-x64 (dff7d13)
First I saw that Alert System was telling me that the volumes I wanted to access was "UNKNOWN". I tried rebooting and after a few reboots, instead of defaulting to unknown, it just wouldn't boot with the affected drives attached and instead telling me the following:
'Mounting local file systems:.
cannot import '8582060359732297958' : no such pool available'
Then continues on to say
ATA status: 51 (DRDY SERV ERR), error: 04 (ABRT )
Error 5, Retries exhausted
...etc...etc
I don't know exactly what is important in order to best give everyone the best information. I've tried sourcing logs from /var/log/dmesg.yesterday but it does not seem to contain what I saw on the console screen. I did however, video it if that helps, haha :)
I've got a feeling the data is gone, since one drive is probably dead. They were not striped. But I believe the configuration was a mirror on a hardware RAID. The server wasn't exactly at spec either.
I know all this now of course, other important data is on a much better server that is running flawlessly with regular 60 minute backups..etc, which is why this server was retired, because I relised I was freakin' stupid. Obviously I missed the data mirrored across two 500GB drives and here we are.
I completed a search and I might be blind, but I could not find my specific error. Perhaps my problem manifests itself in different ways, or what I've posted is of no help at all...But I can't seem to see any road to recovery at this point.
I have both drives free from the server and can plug them in where ever I wish. I've seen posts regarding ZFS recovery scripts (experimental ones) and posts on using Linux to recover bad ZFS pools.
I basically just need a direction to follow. Anything I should or shouldn't do with the drives? Any live CD recommendations for recovery of ZFS pools/volumes?
I'm probably just being an ignorant n00b thinking I'll be getting any of it back. Any more information you need, it's yours! If I knew what info you needed for this issue it would be included, but I'm totally green!
Any help at all is appreciated.
Cheers guys!
David