I am late to the game, having discovered recently that my NAS was hit by QLocker. A lot of my files were still on my desktop. In order to reduce time for recovery, I decided to delete a lot of files from my Multimedia folder that were redundant, especially Music and Video files. Despite doing this and making sure the Recycle Bin was empty and looking through all the folders on Homes, QRescue keeps recovering the Music files that I know I deleted. My main interest is recovering some lost Picture files, and this has become a real pain. Why would this happen??
Any file writes/deletes lowering your chance of ever recovering anything of value. Also, recovery of files can never be back on the NAS but has to be on another file storage otherwise you are sawing off the branch you are sitting on.
have recovered a lot of files, but QRescue has tended to stop. I am recovering to an external drive. I think it may have been overheating causing the recovery to stop so I have it better ventilated now. But now every time I try to run QRescue I get a “page not found” error. Have tried reboots, reinstalling, turning the Web Server off/on to reset in control panel. Seem to be stuck. Have a service ticket in. Sadly did not know that deleting files I did not need would affect recovery, but that’s done at this point. Hoping I can run QRescue one more time and get it to run longer as it did recover a lot of pic files, just not the ones that I appear to not have on other computers.
Well, tried again just a few minutes ago and QRescue is working. Disabled the disk standby mode as well, so hopefully between that and the possible prior overheat of the external HD resolved, this will run long enough to recover the files I need, despite my mistake with file deletion
Looks like I have recovered all I can. Scanned again but capped at 70 recup files as it did before. Was bummed because there were missing picture files including all of 2011. Went rummaging around in our storage to see if any other old loose hard drives were there, then realized that I had never removed them from my prior desktop build that. Pulled the data drives and there were all my missing files. Awesome.
Now going to install new hard drives in the NAS (2 of the 4 existing ones had warnings of issues, so just going to start over with 4 new larger drives in RAID 6).
Will search around for posts about plugging any security holes prior to doing this so I don’t deal with this again!
Only security holes are port forwards, never expose your NAS via port forwards or upnp and you will have no issues.