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Today I opened my PC after some days and I noticed that it started doing something like a recovery on my storage space pool, before booting.
Once booted, I've tried to open the pool to see if the files where all ok and an "Access denied" error appeared.
I've tried changing the pool's letter, re-taking the ownership of the drive and, after some troubles, it worked fine.
Now seems like I've got a more serious problem: I miss something like 500GB of data!
The pool's info report that the data is still on, while the disk properties says that they're not here anymore.
Here's a screenshot to make thing clearer:
As you can see, on the left there's the pool capacity and it says that I'm using 1.16 TG out of 1.58 while in explorer it says that I've got 1.66TB FREE ou of 1.95TB and this is quite insane!
Plus, a lot of files and folders are corrupted!
What the hell is going on?
1Its likely Hardware has failed. You do have a backup right? – Ramhound – 2013-09-27T11:09:37.943
This storage space was configured to do a mirroring, so this was supposed t be my backup. Do you think that I can unplug one of the disks and see if the other has still the data that I need? – StepTNT – 2013-09-27T11:59:27.707
Mirroring is not backup (recover your data if it is lost or damaged). Mirroring is fault tolerance (continue operating if hardware fails). – David Schwartz – 2013-09-27T12:13:14.610
@StepTNT - You are suppose to have 3 copies of data. The original copy, and backup, and a backup offsite. Your backup policy should only allow for data loss in a given timeframe that you decide is acceptable.
Storage Spaces
is a great idea for data storage but not as a means for a backup. You should backupStorage Spaces
storage. – Ramhound – 2013-09-27T12:21:01.337