Greyhole Drama (Are my files gone)?

  • Hi, My first post. I'm a convert from Nas4Free. I decided to use OMV because is more flexible and... Greyhole. After a looooong migration, I finally transfered all my files to a GreyHole pool on OMV. But, whan all was fine and dandy, drama ensued: I deleted a SMB share from Services -> SMB/CIFS and now my server it's inacessible. I'm afraid that all my data is lost. Is there any way to recover it? Can you please help me? I posted all the information I can:


    Some Screenshots:


    System Status:



    Physical Disks Status:



    Filesystems Status:



    Now the nasty part. This is my pool status:



    This is what happens when I try to "check files":



    Cut and paste from the same thing:



    Those are my greyhole shares (nothe the one missing, this is the one I deleted):



    And this is what happens when I try to delete it:



    Dump from the same thing:



    I don't know what to do. I hope I didn't lost my files. Please help. Thanks a lot.


    I followed this guide to configure it: http://forums.openmediavault.org/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=3236

  • Yes, the files appear to be in the Gloryhole folders. Does it mean I have to reconfigure everything from scratch?


    (I just saw that you're the author of the guide. It's a very good guide, I could configure everithing at first attempt, thanks)

  • of got help from the GreyHole guys in their livechat. The one who helped me said there's a bug on the OMV implemetation.


    Here are his words:


    "you should definitely enter a bug in the OMV forum, about the Greyhole module having a bug where the share would (sometimes?) not be removed from greyhole.conf when deleted."


    I think you should take a look.

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    I ported the plugin. Greyhole is supposed to be notified when a samba share is deleted. Judging by your pictures, it is not being notified. I will have to look into that. If you create a new samba share (tell me the name) that you want to use with greyhole and post your /etc/openmediavault/config.xml, I can tell you which lines to change.

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    Version 0.5.9 should fix the problem and allow you to edit the bad samba share to use the new share you have created.

    omv 7.0.5-1 sandworm | 64 bit | 6.8 proxmox kernel

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  • About the /etc/openmediavault/config.xml I did it myself (but thanks anyway) I just looked for the offending UUID and deleted it from the grayhole section. All fine. Now I have to find a way to use the Transmission service on one of the pooled drives: it says I don't have privileges. I wonder if that's possible to do or I have to use a hard drive exclusivly for torrenting.

  • You can seed off the pooled drives by mounting your samba shares locally (with mount_shares_locally) then you point transmission to those locally mounted shares.
    I think the only tricky part was putting the debian-transmission user in the users group and making sure the users group had permissions to the shared directories. (under Access Rights Management -> Shared Folders then Extra Options -> Group set to read/write)

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