CIFS Share Recovery

[Nigel C]

I have had FreeNAS running for some months. Lots of data on it and no problems.
Last week we had a series of power cuts/bounces. UPS drained, came back, just loaded, died again.
Result: USB with freenas corrupted.
Tried reinstall of my original Freenas CD (vsn 9.1) on a new USB drive. that crashed.
Downloaded and Install 9.3 - That has worked.
Imported the Volume - That seemed to have worked.
But there are no CIFS shares with all my data.
(I had another server giving disk errors so had moved a large quantity of files to the freeNAS temporarily while I replaced that drive and rebuilt a new mirror) So only an old backup of that lot.

Any ideas on how to recover the CIFS Share?

 

[anodos]

Enter CLI, enter the following commands, and post output here:

Code:

ls -l /mnt/Camwaynas01

 

[Nigel C]

Thanks for quick response.
Yes that command lists the folders I expect to find.

 

[Nigel C]

 

[anodos]

You should add a new CIFS share that points to /mnt/CamwayNas01.

 

[Nigel C]

Yes that has worked.
Thanks very much
the documentation is not clear on that point
particularly regards recovery.

 

[Robert Trevellyan]

Best practice is always to retain an up to date backup of your configuration: System | General | Save Config