T.Bone Posted May 1, 2018 Share Posted May 1, 2018 I turned off duplication on my system as I am trying to decrypt my HDD due to Ransomware. I selected everything I could it still shows 6tb are duplicated. I cant select anything else and it shows Metadata is duplicated 3x's How do I reclaim this space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Jaga Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Were you using Pool duplication (which duplicates everything), or folder duplication? If it was folder, you might want to double-check to ensure none of the folders has anything except "x1" on it. And when you've checked those two things, click the up arrow ^ next to "Manage Pool" and choose Re-measure.., so that the pool can update itself. It should kick off a Duplication update at that point, if it hasn't already, to remove duplicate files. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 T.Bone Posted May 2, 2018 Author Share Posted May 2, 2018 it was folder and they don't have a plus I removed those. the only folder that is more then one is meta data for some reason has 3 next to it. I have re-measured also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted May 2, 2018 Share Posted May 2, 2018 Metadata is always going to be enabled. It's internal data, so ... If you're still having issues, there is a dpcmd option that will check. "dpcmd check-pool-fileparts" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 T.Bone Posted May 4, 2018 Author Share Posted May 4, 2018 I just moved forward with decryption. I am having an issue though... all the video files that weren't encrypted seem to be damaged. Im not sure why. I asked the antivirus company that supplied the decrypt software if its a side effect and they assured me its not. is there a possibility that drive pool could have currupted during ransomware attack and broke a few files? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted May 4, 2018 Share Posted May 4, 2018 It's possible, yeah. Or just the way that it was handled. Or ... unencrypted files were decrypted, damaging them. It's hard to tell after the fact, unfortunately. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 T.Bone Posted May 4, 2018 Author Share Posted May 4, 2018 the files that were encrypted and now unencrypted are fine. the ones that i weren't encrypted seem to be damaged in some way. I either get autio no video or no video and garbled audio. I dont know of any programs that can repair video either. This whole experience is lame, not drive pool the ransomware. I did start getting duplication conflicts recently. so that is new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted May 7, 2018 Share Posted May 7, 2018 On 5/4/2018 at 4:33 PM, T.Bone said: the files that were encrypted and now unencrypted are fine. the ones that i weren't encrypted seem to be damaged in some way. I either get autio no video or no video and garbled audio. I dont know of any programs that can repair video either. This whole experience is lame, not drive pool the ransomware. Yeah, that really sounds like it decrypted them anyways. I'm not sure what to recommend other that to attempt to re-encrypt the files and see if that works. But that may be hard to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 T.Bone Posted May 9, 2018 Author Share Posted May 9, 2018 my OS crashed and got GRUB rescue code prompt. I saw screw it and installed WS2016 Essential to try it out. Drashna - what were the settings I needed to make sure I set in drivepool since I use Perfectdisk? I don't know if they are still important with the new version or not. I do remember you had me change a few things on the other one. I use an Evo SSD as my OS drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Christopher (Drashna) Posted May 9, 2018 Share Posted May 9, 2018 If you're using the 2.2 version, then nothing, actually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I turned off duplication on my system as I am trying to decrypt my HDD due to Ransomware. I selected everything I could it still shows 6tb are duplicated. I cant select anything else and it shows Metadata is duplicated 3x's
How do I reclaim this space.
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