Help ! All Files lost after Raid5 rebuild

[D3xmeister]

Hello, I have a TS420 with a Raid5 4x2TB disks. One of the disk failed (showed as a bad 3GB disk) and RAID5 was running in degraded mode.

2 days ago I Swapped the bad HDD with a new 2TB one and the RAID5 rebuild has started automatically in Storage manager, so I let it be.

Today, I connected to the NAS, and there was a firmware update prompt that was taking the whole screen. I clicked on Start Firmware update, it did it, it restarted and it then showed the first set-up wizzard, like when it was new.

I found below the wizard the restart button so I restarted it, and now it boots up fine, the Raid 5 is reconstructed and healthy, all the user accounts have their home folders present in the file system, but these users are missing now from users, all I have is the admin, and all the folders created by the users and admin anywhere in the file systems are gone, basically all the data. Disk management shows I have all free space basically.

I looked at the logs and all it showed is Raid configuration is reconstructed but it is in orange, and firmware update completed and nothing else except normal start-up logs. All form today, there are no old logs.

How can I recover my data ? How it got lost without a warning or me doing anything to it ? Any ideas ?

Thanks

[dolbyman]

no backups ?

was the RAID rebuild finished before you did the firmware upgrade ?

see if you can find your data if you recreate the shares via share management (although if the disk managment shows up as free space, I fear that won't work)

[D3xmeister]

There are backups but in many different places, it will take a lot of time to gather all the data again in one place.

I don't know if the rebuild finished, when I accessed it today it was at the firmware update screen that was taking over the whole interface, and I just clicked to update the firmware.

All I have in the share management is the default shares and an option to restore default shared folders which I assume is not what I want.

[dolbyman]

QNAP does not force you to update, you should have ignored the update until you made sure all is rebuild , I have never seen a full screen info about updates.. but then I work with relatively high res screens

did you have custom shares ? .. if so recreate them and see if there is counterparts on the volume when you point it towards the storage

[D3xmeister]

Tried, but it doesn't work. ( It could be that the rebuild wasn't finished, I had the option to cancel but I assumed it finished and restarted and that's why there was the fw update notification, which unlike those that appear in a box, this one was taking the whole interface, but yes there was the option to cancel or update and I clicked update.

[MrVideo]

Now it looks like you have to start over.

Log in as admin vis ssh and run the following command:

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du -sk /share/*

and report back the results.

[D3xmeister]

Last night I already created new shares and started copying the data back, have to have all there by monday so I could not wait.

Still seems weird to me this happened, even with that firmware update and reboot I think the rebuilt should have continued not giving me a ready built raid 5 that’s empty. Also, having all the user accounts folder in ,,Homes,, but no actual accounts in ,,Users,, is another weird thing I don’t get.

Thank you for the help.