sboutros
Dabbler
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- Sep 8, 2017
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Ok, disclaimer.... I am an idiot for not having better practices, please resist the urge to flame me.
Situation:
Freenas 11.2, New build, shuffling, consolidating, organizing, etc onto the new system.
I plugged in an external USB disk, expecting it to mount on the new system. It didn't and like an idiot, I accidentally hit 'Add volume' in the Vol Mgr, despite the red warning text and wiped out the data set. I had tried import but it was not showing up there...
It's an external USB drive, single vol, entire disk. As I said (my stupidity) I thought I was importing an attached USB drive but actually created a new volume out of it.
In hopes of recovery, I quickly powered down FreeNAS. Plugged the USB disk into MacOS and imaged the drive with TestDisk so now i have a 5TB image (dd file).
Prior to running TestDisk I did run PhotoRec briefly and it did recover some files, so I have some hope I may be able to recover the file system.
Any advice for a semi newbie/idiot on what to do next with the dd file to try and recover as much as possible?
Situation:
Freenas 11.2, New build, shuffling, consolidating, organizing, etc onto the new system.
I plugged in an external USB disk, expecting it to mount on the new system. It didn't and like an idiot, I accidentally hit 'Add volume' in the Vol Mgr, despite the red warning text and wiped out the data set. I had tried import but it was not showing up there...
It's an external USB drive, single vol, entire disk. As I said (my stupidity) I thought I was importing an attached USB drive but actually created a new volume out of it.
In hopes of recovery, I quickly powered down FreeNAS. Plugged the USB disk into MacOS and imaged the drive with TestDisk so now i have a 5TB image (dd file).
Prior to running TestDisk I did run PhotoRec briefly and it did recover some files, so I have some hope I may be able to recover the file system.
Any advice for a semi newbie/idiot on what to do next with the dd file to try and recover as much as possible?