Also, I just read about SMR disk and noticed my RAID1 is build only on SMR disk, no CMR. I also use hardlink a lot due to Radarr/Sonarr. The day before it all gone wrong, I deleted some data (deleting the original files), leaving only the second files (the hardlinked one). Could the mix of both be responsible of my issue ? ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Wednesday, May 6, 2020 9:31 PM, Nouts <nouts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello again, > > Do you think someone will be able to tell us more about reports I provided ? > I ordered a new drive that can fit all the data from a "restore", so I'll wait until it's delivered. > > Nouts > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ > On Saturday, May 2, 2020 7:53 PM, Chris Murphy lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 9:51 AM Nouts nouts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > Well, I changed my mind. I'll wait a few more days, for the beginning of the next week, if you have any magical command left :) > > > I'm not sure to understand it but can a "restore" command dump all of the data in a new readable disc ? > > > > Yes, that's the only way it works. It's an offline scraping tool. It > > is possible for recovered files to be corrupt, the point of the tool > > is to improve the chance of recovery. So it doesn't have the same > > safeguards that Btrfs has, where EIO happens upon corruption being > > detected. > > https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Restore > > > > Chris Murphy
