Hey all. Hoping someone can shed some light on what's going on in my situation.
Currently evaluating CloudDrive and have been uploading like a madman during my trial period, testing all manner of things to see if this is the product for my needs.
Last night I accidentally let a folder synchronization program delete ~4TB of content from Google Cloud Drive.
While exceedingly frustrating (for upload time, not data loss - it was all duplicate data) I'm noticing some unusual behavior.
After the data was deleted, I noted that neither StableBit CloudDrive *nor* Google drive reflect the new amount, which should be 1.06TB used. However, Windows Server 2012 does report that exact amount used, with 8.93TB free on a 10TB drive. Contradictory information on the same drive.
My questions are
1. Does data deleted through an attached CloudDrive drive ever really go away?
2. And can it be "undeleted" without traditional recovery methods (to another disk, that is)
3. Further, had the deletion been intended rather than accidental, how would one "reclaim" this previously used space?
While I have not clicked on the Drive Options > "Cleanup" - I would love to avoid having to re-upload the data, if possible.
Some information:
Recycle Bin (which the sync program was told to use) is empty. Obviously 4TB is a lot for a bin.
I allowed the program "Recuva" to search the attached drive, and after 30 minutes it found 391 out of some 3,000 missing files. I did not proceed.
After deletion, I stopped all uploads and detached the drive after some cached data completed uploading.
Edit: I also looked through my GSuites admin account and tried to "restore" any data for the 30 minute window before the files were deleted. This seemed to have done nothing.
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Hey all. Hoping someone can shed some light on what's going on in my situation.
Currently evaluating CloudDrive and have been uploading like a madman during my trial period, testing all manner of things to see if this is the product for my needs.
Last night I accidentally let a folder synchronization program delete ~4TB of content from Google Cloud Drive.
While exceedingly frustrating (for upload time, not data loss - it was all duplicate data) I'm noticing some unusual behavior.
After the data was deleted, I noted that neither StableBit CloudDrive *nor* Google drive reflect the new amount, which should be 1.06TB used. However, Windows Server 2012 does report that exact amount used, with 8.93TB free on a 10TB drive. Contradictory information on the same drive.
My questions are
1. Does data deleted through an attached CloudDrive drive ever really go away?
2. And can it be "undeleted" without traditional recovery methods (to another disk, that is)
3. Further, had the deletion been intended rather than accidental, how would one "reclaim" this previously used space?
While I have not clicked on the Drive Options > "Cleanup" - I would love to avoid having to re-upload the data, if possible.
Some information:
Recycle Bin (which the sync program was told to use) is empty. Obviously 4TB is a lot for a bin.
I allowed the program "Recuva" to search the attached drive, and after 30 minutes it found 391 out of some 3,000 missing files. I did not proceed.
After deletion, I stopped all uploads and detached the drive after some cached data completed uploading.
Edit: I also looked through my GSuites admin account and tried to "restore" any data for the 30 minute window before the files were deleted. This seemed to have done nothing.
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