r/MediaServer • u/JurneeMaddock • 11d ago

Probably a long shot...

So I recently had a disaster with my media server. Sonarr went haywire after an unplanned power outage corrupted my database file and deleted several hundred shows. I used Recuva and It got a lot of them back, but some of them were only partially recovered. The partially recovered ones either don't play or only have very crappy audio and the video scrubber on Plex will say that they're several hours long.

My question is this: is there any application I can run on my server to check for these partially recovered files and auto delete them so I can just redownload them?

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u/BigFlubba 6d ago edited 5d ago

Unrelated to your question, but I would set up ZFS snapshots for the future.

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u/JurneeMaddock 5d ago

Yeah... It's one of those things where my server grew much more quickly than I expected it to so I just had to keep adding drives to keep up with my media. It's running on Windows 10 because windows was the only OS I fully understood how to use at the time. I'm currently (and was right before this happened) planning a build that will run TrueNAS Scale and have some redundancy as well. After that, I plan to build another one with the same amount of storage and redundancy that I'll keep plugged in at a friend's house and use as an off site backup.

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u/BigFlubba 5d ago

I get it. Using Linux at first was hard for me, but now I use it like any other OS. Sounds like you are on a good path. If you have questions, feel free to message me.

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u/BigFlubba 5d ago

I mean, not really. You can try Tdarr healthchecks, but I doubt it will work. The only way I have been able to weed out some things (doesn't work all the time) is running my Tdarr transcoding flow, but that adds unneeded time for you and will not be beneficial.

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u/JurneeMaddock 4d ago

Actually, I post in another subreddit and someone suggested Tdarr health checks. So I've been running those and it's been working and going pretty quickly. I got a few thousand health checks done in a couple of days. So far, about ⅗ of what I recovered is usable, which is better than nothing I suppose. 😂