Jason Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 Unfortunately, had the need to do a bare metal recovery of my WSE12R2 box yesterday. Had an OS SSD fail after much use. After running the BMR a few times in past on same hardware without issue, this time was different. Rather than simply restoring the Windows OS, the restore process felt the need to repartition and format my entire RAID array without warning, doing what appears to be irreversible damage. It also did the same to my Stablebit Drive pool consisting of 4 HDDs in an external enclosure. If it was possible to somehow undelete the data on the drivepool HDDs it would be a start. Pretty unnerving experience. Not all data has been backed up to the cloud. In future it will be everything. TBs. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jmwills Posted March 22, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted March 22, 2017 That would be more than a little unsettling. Glad I migrated to VM's a couple of years ago. Create a snapshot and rollback if things go crazy, as they eventually will. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecake Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 @jmwills same here (esx + freenas + other VMs) Sent from my D5803 using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted March 22, 2017 Author Share Posted March 22, 2017 Even worse, uncertain what triggered it or what could've avoided it. In the past I've disconnected drives on occasion as a precaution but the restore returned an error message and required they be connected. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technogod Posted March 22, 2017 Share Posted March 22, 2017 That is scary. You tried to protect yourself but it wouldn't let you. I almost lost my precious data recently and I had three backups. FYI if you use Acronis don't trust their cloud backup to backup Outlook, Chrome or Quicken if those programs are open during backup. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted March 23, 2017 Author Share Posted March 23, 2017 Yeah. I lost a lot of data. Now wondering whether to install WSE12R2 again or WSE16? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted March 24, 2017 Author Share Posted March 24, 2017 (edited) Just discovered this free utility TestDisk. It restored my deleted 15 TB RAID 6 array. Amazing! https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/raid-partition-table-recovery.180621/ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Edited March 24, 2017 by Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted March 27, 2017 Author Share Posted March 27, 2017 That would be more than a little unsettling. Glad I migrated to VM's a couple of years ago. Create a snapshot and rollback if things go crazy, as they eventually will. Jmwillis, how many VMs are you currently running and what are their uses? Am considering migrating to them since this recent incident. My WSE12R2 has 32 GB RAM. Am currently running 2 VMs. One for downloads and another for testing new apps. I still run sonarr and Plex Media Server on my WSE12R2 host box. I've not been able to effectively run PMS in a VM on my core i5 3570K. Not sure whether there's a newer more capable CPU that would do that well. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmwills Posted March 27, 2017 Share Posted March 27, 2017 I have somewhere around 12 or so running continuously. One is strictly TV downloads, another is strictly for online banking one test 2011 WHS, and 2016 Essentials. There are also three SharePoint farm that live in there and one dedicated Domain Controller and SQL box. I've also been playing around with an F5 box as a LTM (local traffic manager). 128 gigs of RAM give you some flexibility to do a a lot of things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted March 27, 2017 Author Share Posted March 27, 2017 That's an awesome setup. Is it an ESXi host? What are the specs of the host machine if you don't mind? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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