New Installation of FreeNas...Data Disappeared

[NLSNRN]

Hi,

I recently had a flash drive with FreeNas 9.3 running on it die the other day. So, I got a new flash drive and installed FreeNas 9.3 again and everything was working good. I ran into problems when I was setting up my user and permissions in FreeNas GUI. I could see my data but, it was read only? I then decided to create a new data set because my original data from my first install was not on a data set it was only in the pool. After creating the new data set my data does not appear. I know my data is still on the disk because of the total use of my disk. I need some help figuring out how to connect my data to this new data set. I am still very new with FreeNas but, eager to learn. I found a thread on the forum that sounds similar to what I have encountered,,.

https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...reating-a-dataset-need-consoling-advice.8681/

I would assume my steps would be identical to the ones in this thread.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,

Thank You

 

[Mirfster]

System Specs please? Reference: https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/forum-rules.22553/#post-134570/

 

[NLSNRN]

Oops...sorry,

MSI H81m-e33 MOBO
Intel G3220 Pentium
12GB Kingston Economy Ram
Free as 9.3 x64
2 x 3TB WD Red

Mirror configuration
Used primarly to access files around the house on different devices and for plex to access our media.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

The thread you linked is almost certainly an example of your problem. Can we assume you had a folder with the same name as your new dataset? If so, deleting the new dataset will probably reveal your data.

 

[NLSNRN]

my prior setup had a dataset that had a different name but, I don't remember what it was called exactly. But, the data was there when I did a fresh install of FreeNas and wasn't until I created the dataset that the data disappeared. I was going to delete it but, i'm nervous about doing it.

 

[NLSNRN]

So, I deleted the NelsonData set and nothing happend...but, I noticed my windows share the path was incorrect so I changed the path to the correct folder. I don't recieve an error message in windows when I try to access my "Nelson Server" folder it opens up. But, none of the data shows? I know the data is there because when I browsed to set the path for my windows share I can view the whole file tree. Any ideas of what I may be missing?

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

At this stage it's probably a permissions issue.

 

[NLSNRN]

yup it was my path in my share was incorrect...now it works, thank you for your help!

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

:)