First, this is my first post and I want to thank everyone for the wealth of knowledge I have already found.
Now on to my problem lol. Let me begin by saying I am lost when it comes to command line interfaces and such. I built a NAS box Friday, and installed FreeNas yesterday and have had it running for about 24 hours now. Not being familiar with the command line stuff, I used the web gui for everything I have done so far. I installed two (2) new 3TB hard drives and installed freeNAS on an 8GB USB stick.
Once it came on and I saw the ip, I went to my computer and used the browser to connect. I used UFS and under storage created two volumes, one named Movies for movies, and the other named PicsMusic for pictures and music. I then created a CIFS share for each of these volumes, allowing me to browse to them on my windows 7 pc.
I created a a music and pictures folder on the PicsMusic share, then cut/pasted all of my pictures and music to the Appropriate folders. I did the same on the Movies drive. Then I installed Plex using the GUI and pointed the shares correctly, I thought. I used the browse for each jail and in source I found the folders I wanted, and in destination I pointed them to the media folder in the plex jail. I opened plex and it was all working. I was able to stream to my TV, laptop, and multiple iPhones/iPads.
Once this was all done and working, I shutdown the server to move it to its permanent location. When it came back on, I could not get the plex service to start. I checked my jails and everything was the same. Tried stopping and restarting them, nothing would let me turn Plex back on.
Looking at the files, I had everything going into the media folder, rather than separate folders for each in the jail. So I created the folders, and since Plex wasn't working I installed it again (thinking it would "reinstall", rather that install a second time like it did)
This time I did the same thing, but pointed the destinations to the new folders I created under the jail for plexserver2. I was now able to turn on plexserver2, but still could not turn on plexserver1. So I browsed to Plexserver2 and was able to add the movies and TV shows folders easily. After they updated, I tried to add the folders for music and pictures, but nothing happened.
In windows I went to the shares and the PicsMusic share shows completely empty. There is no data at all, only the empty folders for Music and Pictures. All music and pics are gone. Looking at the active volume through the FreeNas web GUI, the drive shows that it is using 24.0 KiB (8%). Available shows 2.4tb out of 2.6tb. Obviously, the unaccounted space must be my pictures and music files, but I have no clue how to get to them or even if I can. For the record, both drives show healthy and working fine, other than the data has disappeared.
I might be a moron at this stuff, but I do actually have a backup of my pictures. The music I can always put back on there, but the pictures backup is offsite and I will have to download them all, which will take a significant amount of time. If possible I would prefer to recover this information. Is there anything I can do?
Now on to my problem lol. Let me begin by saying I am lost when it comes to command line interfaces and such. I built a NAS box Friday, and installed FreeNas yesterday and have had it running for about 24 hours now. Not being familiar with the command line stuff, I used the web gui for everything I have done so far. I installed two (2) new 3TB hard drives and installed freeNAS on an 8GB USB stick.
Once it came on and I saw the ip, I went to my computer and used the browser to connect. I used UFS and under storage created two volumes, one named Movies for movies, and the other named PicsMusic for pictures and music. I then created a CIFS share for each of these volumes, allowing me to browse to them on my windows 7 pc.
I created a a music and pictures folder on the PicsMusic share, then cut/pasted all of my pictures and music to the Appropriate folders. I did the same on the Movies drive. Then I installed Plex using the GUI and pointed the shares correctly, I thought. I used the browse for each jail and in source I found the folders I wanted, and in destination I pointed them to the media folder in the plex jail. I opened plex and it was all working. I was able to stream to my TV, laptop, and multiple iPhones/iPads.
Once this was all done and working, I shutdown the server to move it to its permanent location. When it came back on, I could not get the plex service to start. I checked my jails and everything was the same. Tried stopping and restarting them, nothing would let me turn Plex back on.
Looking at the files, I had everything going into the media folder, rather than separate folders for each in the jail. So I created the folders, and since Plex wasn't working I installed it again (thinking it would "reinstall", rather that install a second time like it did)
This time I did the same thing, but pointed the destinations to the new folders I created under the jail for plexserver2. I was now able to turn on plexserver2, but still could not turn on plexserver1. So I browsed to Plexserver2 and was able to add the movies and TV shows folders easily. After they updated, I tried to add the folders for music and pictures, but nothing happened.
In windows I went to the shares and the PicsMusic share shows completely empty. There is no data at all, only the empty folders for Music and Pictures. All music and pics are gone. Looking at the active volume through the FreeNas web GUI, the drive shows that it is using 24.0 KiB (8%). Available shows 2.4tb out of 2.6tb. Obviously, the unaccounted space must be my pictures and music files, but I have no clue how to get to them or even if I can. For the record, both drives show healthy and working fine, other than the data has disappeared.
I might be a moron at this stuff, but I do actually have a backup of my pictures. The music I can always put back on there, but the pictures backup is offsite and I will have to download them all, which will take a significant amount of time. If possible I would prefer to recover this information. Is there anything I can do?