LaCie Drive Question, Issue, Concern
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OK so one of our LaCie's 2Big Quadra is acting odd.
The drive has folders, appears to be using space but when you go into any of the folders they're empty. Yet list's that 220GB are used.
The front of the unit has a Long Blue LED, Off, Long Blue LED, and this repeats. Each Long Blue is 5 seconds maybe.
Of the rear LEDs one is rapidly flashing, the other is solid. Both are Blue.
Has anyone seen this? It doesn't match up with any of the documentation I can find.
Here's the "Quick Install Guide"
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That was @ntg a few weeks ago with a server that had a flashing light pattern that no one including the vendor had ever seen before.
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Not sure wtf is going on with it but I'd make sure it's backed up PDQ
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The trouble is this drive (and don't get me started on it) was purchased and setup with the intent of it being a USB networked share off of one of our DC's.
And seemed to have worked without issue until we just noticed this.
So it has important information there, albeit archived information.
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So the folders are NOT supposed to be empty, they are SUPPOSED to be full of data?
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Yes, and the drive shows 220 GB used, but when you look at any folder on the drive, they are all showing 0 bytes used.
And the system view shows 1.8TB Total Capacity as expected, and 1.6TB Available.
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Last time I have a computer come up with a boat load of disk space used and no files found,.. required a full disk wipe to get it back.
Nothing seem to find the errant file that was nearly 180GBs...
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Does remounting work?
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Might be worth breaking out something like Recuva to look through the filesystem. But as this is RAID, I doubt it is going to do any good.
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Try mounting it on a linux system then DD the whole damn thing to another drive and see if you can read it there
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Well my concern is that it could be rebuilding the RAID and that the Red LED is just dead. But I've never had an LED go, on anything ever..
So my concern is that if we drop it, and reconnect it then we'll end up having to try recovering from backup.
Edit: Boss just told me this drive isn't backed up..... (because RAID is it's own backup... isn't it)
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Good idea, get a raw image and try to fix from there.
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That was sarcasm guys...
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Then inform management that USB external consumer drives means, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that at the end of the day the data on those drives was deemed "trivial." No matter what words they used, the actions prove the final intent. Whoever approved that did not agree with the idea that the data was important in any way.
Assuming... no backups either?
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We're letting it run for a bit to see if it is trying to rebuild the Array
as nothing else seems to really fit
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Yes, let it attempt a rebuild. HOWEVER, no amount of drive failure should cause an issue like this until the array itself has failed. This is not a drive rebuilding issue, this is sadly bigger than that.
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Hopefully this is just a corrupt file system table that can be repaired.
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Yeah as someone else said, the decision to put company archive data on an external consumer grade drive simply means that the data is expendable...
So if everyone is at a loss, 'here's to the best'
