Invalid File Handle Error

[Nathan Stewart]

So I have setup a few CIIFS Shares for windows and have been using them flawlessly for about 3 months but now for some reason I keep getting these errors, First it will tell me that It can't read it and check your network connection, I know that it's fine so I press RETRY and then it gives me the "Invalid File Handle" error, I have set the drive up to FTP so I could try it that way and it doesn't give me any error's it just stops at where the error would have occurred then continues to the next file transfer,

I am really stumped now, I have tried so many things and reading up on google hasn't helped me much the only thing I can find that's related to FreeNAS is not very helpful, everything else is about WHS (Windows Home Server). So i'm not sure what to do now, I really want to get the data off of the drive so I have come here looking for an answer, Please help me, any suggestions would be appreciated, hopefully I can fix this with out loosing all my data on that drive,

Thanks

Nathan

 

[Stephens]

Check out item 3 in the Forum Rules

Things I'd want to know offhand are what version of FreeNAS you're running and how is your storage configured (RAID-Z1, RAID-Z2)? It sounds like you may have some corruption on your HDD. If you're using ZFS, I'd suggest doing a (and reading up on) scrub. I'd do it from the console so you can check on status as it progresses. First step would be running "zpool status" from the console.

 

[Nathan Stewart]

I am using the latest Release I think it's 8.2, all my hard drives are setup as stand alone's NO raid at all, and there all UFS, so what you suggested may not work here,

 

[Stephens]

Sounds like your drive is going back, so the focus is copy all your data off that drive that you want, skipping bad files. You want a log of them though so you know what you didn't get. After you're done with all that, you can run a smartctl long test to see what's going on, but it's likely your HDD is on its last legs. You decided on no redundancy, so I assume you decided you were OK with losing data on the drive in case of a HDD crash.

 

[Nathan Stewart]

Well I kinda thought the same thing so I have been trying to take all the files off but I hate to lose stuff, and I didn't go with redundancy because I NEVER have and have NEVER had a drive fail on me so, I guess my luck has warn out, Once I get the data off that I can how do I go about running the smartctl long test ?