Hi, just a heads up for anyone that might not have ever had to do a restore yet...
I had a pooled drive go down recently, it totally died and would no longer be recognised. Because of this, I now had random files missing throughout the pool as they were spread randomly and balanced by Drivepool.
The only way I could figure out to restore this mess was to:
Open Crashplan UI, set to include deleted files, then hit the date column to sort by decending date.
Navigate through the tree in the Crashplan UI, and tick everything that is grey with a deleted date of the day the disk died. This is quicker via the keyboard using arrows and spacebar.
Spend an hour or so ticking files until you get tired, hit restore, remember where you where, then repeat until complete.
This took me ages as you can imagine. If only Crashplan could show me files deleted on a specific date and just restore those!
Since then I have tweaked my file placement settings to put music on one drive, pictures on another, etc. This way if it happens again I will have an easier time. Except that this requires manual management, and intervention once the disks get full to re-arrange stuff.
What might help here is a new balancer/placement plugin to keep all files in a subfolder together on the same drive? Food for thought for anyone out there into writing them. I'd also be interested to hear if anyone else has run into this and found a better way of dealing with it than I did!
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dannybuoy
Hi, just a heads up for anyone that might not have ever had to do a restore yet...
I had a pooled drive go down recently, it totally died and would no longer be recognised. Because of this, I now had random files missing throughout the pool as they were spread randomly and balanced by Drivepool.
The only way I could figure out to restore this mess was to:
This took me ages as you can imagine. If only Crashplan could show me files deleted on a specific date and just restore those!
Since then I have tweaked my file placement settings to put music on one drive, pictures on another, etc. This way if it happens again I will have an easier time. Except that this requires manual management, and intervention once the disks get full to re-arrange stuff.
What might help here is a new balancer/placement plugin to keep all files in a subfolder together on the same drive? Food for thought for anyone out there into writing them. I'd also be interested to hear if anyone else has run into this and found a better way of dealing with it than I did!
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