I just lost about 200GB in recordings!

[LaserBait]

I just lost about 200GB in recordings! I don't know how or why (or even when), but a LOT of my videos are just "gone". I had about 160 GB free just the other day, and now I'm at ~330 GB free. Is there anything in GB-PVR that "cleans house" on old recordings that haven't been watched in some time?

I checked the RAID and there is no hardware issue there, and I did a scandisk on the filesystem and it came up clean. There are no viri according to AVG. So I am at a complete loss as to where they went.


Currently I'm running GB-PVR v1.1.5. I'm attaching my logs...

[sub]

Is there anything in GB-PVR that "cleans house" on old recordings that haven't been watched in some time?

No there isnt, and there has never been any other reports of GB-PVR deleting recordings in this way so I'm confident its not the work of GB-PVR.

[LaserBait]

Well, crud.

I was hoping it was something simple... I hate gremlins.

[toomanyhandles]

Well, crud.

I was hoping it was something simple... I hate gremlins.

GetDataBack is a nice tool for recovering deleted files, and it doesn't need you to be a low-level filesystem guru. There are other tools, too.

[pBS]

this is why i prefer backups to raid usually...raid can be very flaky...i don't trust a raid setup unless i do a test failure scenario first...plus they also backup file system errors...with unpredictable results..

whereas backups are good even if the whole raid fails, and even if you develop chkdsk errors...as they get replicated on both raid drives so it doesn't help..

so i backup to a usb drive so i can turn it off when not in use and saves it from power spike problems as well..

[pBS]

here's one of my favs for free recovery..PCInspector FileRecovery:
http://www.pcinspector.de/download_all.htm?language=1

[jam_zhou]

check to make sure that your HDD didn't fail and that recordings are not in a recovery directory...it happened to me and I recovered most of the files that way.

To check, just look at the free space that windows reports for that drive. If the data is really gone, then you should have over 160 GB free or so.

[gEd]

here's one of my favs for free recovery..PCInspector FileRecovery:
http://www.pcinspector.de/download_all.htm?language=1

just make sure that you don;t write/record anything to the drive otherwise it will overwrite the area of disk where the lost recordings are residing.