I've had a disaster recovering files from my FreeNAS backup server. Loads of files seem to have gone missing.
My FreeNAS setup is 2 servers, one with mirrored storage and a backup server, to which I back everything up, using replication. I wanted to reconfigure the disks on my main server, so I made sure my replication tasks were up to date, then I detached the relevant disks, reconfigured them using Volume Manager, then set up a replication task on the backup server to transfer the backed up files back.
I then discovered that half the backed up files were missing. About 3 years worth! I checked the snapshots on the backup server, but couldn't find the missing files there. Unfortunately the data and snapshots from the main server were deleted when I reconfigured the drives. Some other files, from another volume, were all there. I'm pretty sure I had recent backups of the missing files, because I did a minor data recovery from them last year.
Has anyone got any ideas? Is it possible to recover backed up files from the replicated files on the backup server, without the original snapshots from the main server?
Thanks
My FreeNAS setup is 2 servers, one with mirrored storage and a backup server, to which I back everything up, using replication. I wanted to reconfigure the disks on my main server, so I made sure my replication tasks were up to date, then I detached the relevant disks, reconfigured them using Volume Manager, then set up a replication task on the backup server to transfer the backed up files back.
I then discovered that half the backed up files were missing. About 3 years worth! I checked the snapshots on the backup server, but couldn't find the missing files there. Unfortunately the data and snapshots from the main server were deleted when I reconfigured the drives. Some other files, from another volume, were all there. I'm pretty sure I had recent backups of the missing files, because I did a minor data recovery from them last year.
Has anyone got any ideas? Is it possible to recover backed up files from the replicated files on the backup server, without the original snapshots from the main server?
Thanks