NASmatic Quick Start

First a quick intro... NASmatic is based on the lessons learned over eight years of remote data recovery work. In short there are two kinds of NAS/RAID data recovery cases, Simple and Complex. Simple, that is, for a data recovery specialist. NASmatic was made for the non-specialist to automate the Simple case data recovery process. And fortunately most cases fall into the Simple category.

Complex cases are often recoverable but not easy to fully automate. So while recovery may still be possible a manual process is needed to achieve recovery. Contact me for remote help with Complex cases. They are my specialty.

        Stephen Haran ... steveharan@gmail.com

Key Features

NASmatic recovers from the most common causes of NAS/RAID failure...

Nasmatic Quick Start

Compatibility List

Below find a partial list of NASmatic compatabile NAS/RAID devices.

Buffalo LinkStation
Buffalo TeraStation
Dlink
FreeNAS
Iomega
LacIe
Lenovo EMC
Linksys
Linux mdadm
Nas4free
Netgear ReadyNAS
Openfiler
Open Media Vault
QNAP
SansDigital
Seagate BlackArmor
Seagate Business Storage
Synology
Thecus
Ubuntu
Western Digital ShareSpace
Western Digital MyCloud
Zentyal

NASmatic in action...

Below is the Status.txt log file from an actual WD ShareSpace recovery. You can expect to see someting similar for your case.

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         / | / /  /   |  / ___/   ____ ___     ____ _   / /_   (_)  _____
        /  |/ /  / /| |  \__ \   / __ `__ \   / __ `/  / __/  / /  / ___/
       / /|  /  / ___ | ___/ /  / / / / / /  / /_/ /  / /_   / /  / /__
      /_/ |_/  /_/  |_|/____/  /_/ /_/ /_/   \__,_/   \__/  /_/   \___/

              Created by Stephen Haran ... steveharan@gmail.com


30-Nov-2019 11:45 ...This is the NASmatic activity and status log file. Re-open to see the most recent updates.

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ...Note: NASmatic marks each drive read-only. And all action taken by NASmatic to achieve recovery goes awway on power off.

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ...Connected Hard Drives
                           NAME LABEL VENDOR   MODEL            SERIAL            SIZE TRAN   ROTA
                      /dev/sda        ATA      WDC_WD10EARS-00Y WD-WMAV5134XXXX 931.5G sata      1
                      /dev/sdb        ATA      ST31000524AS     5VPCXXXX        931.5G sata      1
                      /dev/sdc        ATA      WDC_WD10EARS-00Y WD-WMAV5134XXXX 931.5G sata      1
                      /dev/sdd        ATA      WDC_WD10EARS-00Y WD-WMAV5134XXXX 931.5G sata      1

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Drive  Serial Numbe marked read-only: WD-WMAV5134XXXX

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Key S.M.A.R.T values for drive Serial Number: WD-WMAV5134XXXX
                      ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
                      198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
                        5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
                      197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
                        9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   041   041   000    Old_age   Always       -       43374

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... S.M.A.R.T score:  0

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Drive  Serial Numbe marked read-only: 5VPCXXXX

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Key S.M.A.R.T values for drive Serial Number: 5VPCXXXX
                      ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
                      198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0010   100   100   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
                        5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   036    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
                      197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
                      187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
                      188 Command_Timeout         0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
                        9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       804

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... S.M.A.R.T score:  0

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Drive  Serial Numbe marked read-only: WD-WMAV5134XXXX

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Key S.M.A.R.T values for drive Serial Number: WD-WMAV5134XXXX
                      ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
                      198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
                        5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
                      197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
                        9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   041   041   000    Old_age   Always       -       43367

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... S.M.A.R.T score:  0

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Drive  Serial Numbe marked read-only: WD-WMAV5134XXXX

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Key S.M.A.R.T values for drive Serial Number: WD-WMAV5134XXXX
                      ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
                      198 Offline_Uncorrectable   0x0030   200   200   000    Old_age   Offline      -       0
                        5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   200   200   140    Pre-fail  Always       -       0
                      197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0032   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
                        9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   041   041   000    Old_age   Always       -       43380

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... S.M.A.R.T score:  0

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Software updates installed successfully.

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Timezone adjustment:  Set system timezone to America/New_York.

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Initiating NASmatic automated data recovery. It should only take a few minutes. Stand by.

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Partition Table
                      DOS Partition Table
                      Offset Sector: 0
                      Units are in 512-byte sectors

                            Slot      Start        End          Length       Description
                      000:  Meta      0000000000   0000000000   0000000001   Primary Table (#0)
                      001:  -------   0000000000   0000000000   0000000001   Unallocated
                      002:  000:000   0000000001   0000417689   0000417689   Linux RAID (0xfd)
                      003:  000:001   0000417690   0002506139   0002088450   Linux RAID (0xfd)
                      004:  000:002   0002506140   0002827439   0000321300   Linux RAID (0xfd)
                      005:  000:003   0002827440   1953520064   1950692625   Linux RAID (0xfd)
                      006:  -------   1953520065   1953525167   0000005103   Unallocated
                      Hash: 5cef59db6ef5cc587eda8133f5a5a6e9

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Largest mdadm raid device: /dev/sdd4, start-block: 2827440, size-in-blocks: 1950692625

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... RAID level is: raid5

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... RAID first created with 4 RAID members on: 3 Creation Time : Tue Feb 25 20:26:31 2014

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... RAID events count is: 3 Events : 776012

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... RAID last updated on: 3 Update Time : Mon Dec 18 13:42:23 2017

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... One missing drive

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... NASmatic assembled a valid RAID device, size: 2.7TB

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Displaying RAID device status
                      Personalities : [linear] [multipath] [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10]
                      md  : active (auto-read-only) raid5 loop13[1] loop14[3] loop11[2]
                            2925438336 blocks level 5, 64k chunk, algorithm 2 [4/3] [_UUU]

                      unused devices: <none>

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Displaying RAID device detailed status
                                 Version : 0.90
                           Creation Time : Tue Feb 25 20:26:31 2014
                              Raid Level : raid5
                              Array Size : 2925438336 (2789.92 GiB 2995.65 GB)
                           Used Dev Size : 975146112 (929.97 GiB 998.55 GB)
                            Raid Devices : 4
                           Total Devices : 3
                         Preferred Minor : 7
                             Persistence : Superblock is persistent

                             Update Time : Mon Dec 18 13:42:23 2017
                                   State : clean, degraded
                          Active Devices : 3
                         Working Devices : 3
                          Failed Devices : 0
                           Spare Devices : 0

                                  Layout : left-symmetric
                              Chunk Size : 64K

                      Consistency Policy : resync

                                    UUID : c90e6b66:8713f360:3f2aef1f:29510cfe
                                  Events : 0.776012

                          Number   Major   Minor   RaidDevice State
                             -       0        0        0      removed
                             1       7      208        1      active sync   /dev/loop13
                             2       7      176        2      active sync   /dev/loop11
                             3       7      224        3      active sync   /dev/loop14

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Data volume detected as:  Linux rev 1.0 ext3 filesystem data, UUID=8962f6f4-a728-43a7-8ff1-ee51fc3f7b35, volume name "NASRAID" (large files)

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Good news! NASmatic processing ended successfully. Go to the  Data  folder to view the recovered files and folders... \\NASmatic\Data

30-Nov-2019 11:45 ...


30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Note: NASmatic Free Edition limits data copy speed to 2MB per second.



30-Nov-2019 11:45 ... Below is a listing of recovered folders and files at the top aka root level...

  .                                   D        0  Sat Dec  9 14:49:57 2017
  ..                                  D        0  Sat Nov 30 11:27:55 2019
  .reservespace                       H 10485760  Wed Feb 26 13:57:58 2014
  jewab                               D        0  Sat Dec  9 12:59:32 2017
  _torrent_                           D        0  Wed Feb 26 14:02:47 2014
  .timemachine                       DH        0  Wed Feb 26 13:58:01 2014
  Public                              D        0  Mon Dec 18 13:42:06 2017
  Download                            D        0  Wed Feb 26 13:58:03 2014
  aquota.user                         N     8192  Sat Dec  9 14:49:57 2017

            2879401856 blocks of size 1024. 1814857780 blocks available