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That’s true, but if the file is severely damaged (like missing headers), VLC may not help much. In that case, a dedicated repair tool is the best option.
Before jumping into advanced tools, you can try something simple like playing it in VLC Media Player and enabling the “Always Fix” option. It works for minor corruption.
I’ve been through the same situation with my drone footage. The file was completely unplayable, but I managed to recover it using a video repair tool- Stellar Repair for Video. So don’t lose hope.
Hey, don’t worry—this is actually quite common, especially when recording stops abruptly. The good news is that in many cases, these videos can be repaired.
Hi everyone, I’m really stressed right now. I have an important MP4 video that got corrupted after my camera battery died mid-recording. It won’t play at all. Has anyone dealt with this before?
Hello,
I’m face a problem with many of my old LTO Tapes that was backed up using lto 3 and lto6 drives. The magority was backed using a software called Archiware P5 and the rest using Ltfs format.
Most of the tapes suffer from unrecoverable read errors when trying to restore them after a while. I tried different drives to read the tapes but I reach the same result.
The only way I found to get the data on the tapes other than a data recovery company.
After many searches I’m trying to find a way to take an image of the tape as a raw image with skipping all the read errors to a hard disk or a device to duplicate the tape to another new one.
Is there any other way or better way I can restore data from these tapes without sending them to recovery service.
Best Regards
Hi all, need some advice:
My DS220j has failed and cannot boot (suspect hardware/Bay issue). It was running RAID1, and one of the drives should still contain valid data.
I’m planning to upgrade to a DS224+. What is the safest way to recover and transfer the data to the new NAS without risking initialization or data loss?
The old drive has not been initialized or modified.
Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
Hello everyone,
I would like to ask for your advice regarding a possible migration of a data server to TrueNAS. I am part of a research group focused on atmospheric and climate studies, and we currently have a couple of powerful servers (EPYC, 128 cores / 1 TB RAM each) with their own local SSD storage. In addition, we have a separate data server with larger capacity, which we use to share a large folder via NFS.
At the moment, this is the only intended use for the server. We do not run virtual machines or databases on this storage—only data files, which we occasionally process directly without copying them locally.
The server specifications are as follows:
Chassis: Gigabyte S452-Z30-00
RAM: 64 GB (8 × 8 GB ECC DDR4 3200 MHz)
RAID controller: LSI MegaRAID SAS-3 3108
Disks: 18 × 14 TB drives in RAID 6
Network: Dual 10 GbE with LACP
Two sata SSD’s for OS.
Since the disks were approaching 5 years of use, we decided to replace them with 26 TB drives, and we have purchased a total of 29 disks. The issue is that I had originally included 4 × 64 GB RAM modules (for a total of 256 GB), but the order has been delayed and now the price has increased to over €1000 per module (procurement in the Spanish public sector is not exactly straightforward).
As an HBA, I have an AOC-S3008L-L8E, which allows me to avoid using adapters since the SAS expander cables use the same SFF-8643 connectors.
My current plan is to create 3 RAIDZ2 vdevs with 9 disks each (27 disks total) and leave 2 disks as spares. The server is located in a data center with limited physical access, so having spares available is important (especially since hardware procurement at the university can be slow).
The main concern I have is the amount of RAM. I am aware that 64 GB is quite low for this kind of setup, but at the moment it does not seem feasible to obtain more. I could take RAM from the other servers (it is the same type), but that would leave them in asymmetric configurations and would involve mixing modules.
Would you recommend any changes to this setup?
Thank you very much.
I’m hoping someone with more technical knowledge can help with my issue. my Ugreen NAS got briefly unplugged during use. I have about 4.5 TB of data on one drive with a RAID 1 backup on the second drive.
When the NAS got turned back on, I got an alert that my storage pool is degraded even though both of my drives are fine. It is telling me to repair my storage pool via Hard Drive 1. However, when I tell my drive to begin the repair storage pool function, it attempts before saying my request has timed out and to try again.
Does anyone know how I get the “Repair Storage Pool” task to actually run? I’m a little freaked out, because I don’t want to lose all my data. Please respond if you know what’s up!
Look for an Android data recovery software that also has a photo repair option, or a dedicated image repair tool. Some of them use a reference image to rebuild corrupted ones.
Just don’t expect 100% recovery. But you might still save a good chunk of those photos.
That makes sense. I do see parts of the image in most of them, so maybe there’s hope.
Any specific type of tool I should look for?
If the photos show half gray or partially visible, there’s a decent chance repair might work. I’ve had some images come back usable that way.
If they were totally blank, then it’d be a different story
Exactly. Think of it like this:
– Recovery = getting files back
– Repair = fixing broken files
You’re already in the repair phase
Nah, once the files are already recovered, other recovery tools won’t magically improve them.
You’re past that stage. Now it’s more about fixing the corrupted files themselves.
I tried VLC, but no luck. The video just won’t open. I do have another working video from the same camera though—does that help?