Greyhole's lost loads of files. :( What other options?
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 4:37 pm
Hi all,
It seems that I've lost a lot files because Greyhole wasn't too good at dealing with a failing drive.
Basically, I had 2 drives set up as "stickies" to for 1 particular share (let's say drives 7 and 8). Drive 7 was the landing zone for this share, and Greyhole seems to have performed the first gh copy onto drive 8 as a result (which was the drive which was has slowly been dieing). Now, it seems that greyhole has been using that copy on drive 8 to copy onto drive 7 too. That's why any "broken" file in question is showing the full size on drive 8 (eg 8.2Gb), but you can't copy that file separately to anywhere else as it dies before it gets to the end (say at 5.3Gb) with an "Invalid Argument" error which you can only then "Skip".
This has happened to about 500GB's worth of data, so I'm a bit annoyed. I'm trying to recover the bad sectors on drive 8, but I've already done one attempt which has taken about 2 days and it doesn't seem to have "fixed" any of the bad files.
I'm therefore looking at any options. Is there any way that I can recover these files? If not, what other options do I have for drive pooling so that I can get rid of Greyhole? I generally want to keep drives paired up (almost like a RAID1), hence why I always tie 2 drives together for any given share using "stickies".
I'm looking for options, guys, because with 20drives in my machine, I don't want to lose any more data, and want to get this sorted once and for all.
It seems that I've lost a lot files because Greyhole wasn't too good at dealing with a failing drive.
Basically, I had 2 drives set up as "stickies" to for 1 particular share (let's say drives 7 and 8). Drive 7 was the landing zone for this share, and Greyhole seems to have performed the first gh copy onto drive 8 as a result (which was the drive which was has slowly been dieing). Now, it seems that greyhole has been using that copy on drive 8 to copy onto drive 7 too. That's why any "broken" file in question is showing the full size on drive 8 (eg 8.2Gb), but you can't copy that file separately to anywhere else as it dies before it gets to the end (say at 5.3Gb) with an "Invalid Argument" error which you can only then "Skip".
This has happened to about 500GB's worth of data, so I'm a bit annoyed. I'm trying to recover the bad sectors on drive 8, but I've already done one attempt which has taken about 2 days and it doesn't seem to have "fixed" any of the bad files.
I'm therefore looking at any options. Is there any way that I can recover these files? If not, what other options do I have for drive pooling so that I can get rid of Greyhole? I generally want to keep drives paired up (almost like a RAID1), hence why I always tie 2 drives together for any given share using "stickies".
I'm looking for options, guys, because with 20drives in my machine, I don't want to lose any more data, and want to get this sorted once and for all.