99% of files gone

[DatScreamer]

What kind of "a rally old lenovo computer" is this? You can get RAM cheap for this. Post the model number.
Also you might want to take a look at the date on your drives - older than 5 years are not to be trusted (just a hunch)

Drives are brand new, ish. Bought one of them a month ago and another one 3 months ago. The lenovo is a thinkcentre. The P/N is 005554 FLX 05 Sept 07

 

[DatScreamer]

How much larger is this cluster#@%& going to get?

I will upgrade RAM in the near future, the cluster can only get to 4 hard drives. It may be 4TB large.

 

[DatScreamer]

There are lots of ways to break samba. Not so many ways to screw up an SFTP transfer.

And SFTP worked for me! I got my data back onto my hard drives on the stable nas.

 

[DatScreamer]

I transferred one folder but then it gives me this error code:

"
General failure (server should provide error description).
Error code: 4
Error message from server: Failure
"

I ended up restarting the NAS and it transferred fine.

 

[DatScreamer]

So to be more clear for anyone else who stumbles across this:

Read the documentation, have enough RAM

Make sure you don't have the wrong directory pointing at by you CIFS (In my case I was transferring files, and playing with settings at same time, I changed my CIFS directory and name to ScreamDisk and ScreamDisk instead of screamdisk and screamdisk so some files ended up in different directories. (You can check this by doing: "ls -l /mnt/screamdisk/screamdisk" and changing it to the appropriate directories. also try with the same line but changing the capitals, or trying every name you changed your windows share to.

Make sure you don't change setting because 'they don't work' it takes time to apply, restart your NAS a few times then check if it worked.

 

[mattbbpl]

And SFTP worked for me! I got my data back onto my hard drives on the stable nas.

First of all, congratulations! I'm glad to hear you're back on track.
Second of all:

I will upgrade RAM in the near future, the cluster can only get to 4 hard drives. It may be 4TB large.

LOL. Well done, sir.

 

[INCSlayer]

I will upgrade RAM in the near future, the cluster can only get to 4 hard drives. It may be 4TB large.

Cluster? you dont have a cluster and if you think have multiple harddrives in a machine means its a "cluster" you need to go read more about these things.

 

[Ericloewe]

Cluster? you dont have a cluster and if you think have multiple harddrives in a machine means its a "cluster" you need to go read more about these things.

He's trying to politely say clusterfsck. ;)

 

[Babbage]

I will upgrade RAM in the near future, the cluster can only get to 4 hard drives. It may be 4TB large.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239592
Thats IF your system is a Thinkcenter M90 (type 5554) - Your system has 4 slots.

8GB Ram = $40
16Gb Ram = $80

 

[anodos]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820239592
Thats IF your system is a Thinkcenter M90 (type 5554) - Your system has 4 slots.

8GB Ram = $40
16Gb Ram = $80

If you actually take the debug file at the beginning of this thread, extract it, then read the dmidecode output, you'll see that thecomptuer is a Lenovo M55p 8813 series, which maxes out at 4GB RAM. The computer is utterly in every conceivable way unsuited for FreeNAS.

 

[mattbbpl]

Thanks for your and everyone elses help, spending the time to help me. Time is very valuable and you guys helped me with your time for nothing!

You're very welcome. I would like to close by advising that you heed the recommendations you've seen here. You've passed your crisis, and you don't want to put yourself into another one, so take a step back, evaluate what you need, how best to get it, and if that includes FreeNAS learn how to properly set up and use it. You don't need to be an expert at it, but you must learn enough to be able to use it to protect your data.

And always keep a backup on hand. That's not a FreeNAS, requirement. It's just a general data requirement. Consider it to be data management 101.

 

[jgreco]

Thread closed. This would have a hard time going anywhere productive, as evidenced by several messages I've just moderated.