Disqualification after data recovery

Node Operators troubleshooting
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I operated a 2TB node for years now, but a few days ago my HDD started dying. I already made a succesfull migration when I upgraded from raspberry PI and everything went well back then. So I thought it shouldn’t be a problem. It took two days with rsync but I succesfully backed up ~90% of the data to a new disk. I switched back the node online with the new HDD in it and went to sleep, but overnight it got disqualified on every satellite. On the dashboard it shows only ~200GB stored data however I backed up almost 1,9TB. What happened? What can I do now? I really have to start from scratch with an empty node with the 15 months rule and everything?

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90% is bad result, you shold always have 100% working data.

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Sure, I understand but I had a few bad sectors and only ~90% was successfully recovered. What I don’t understand is why the dashboard shows only ~200GB used space if I restored almost the full 2TB. And now I have to create a fully new node or I can use the same identity?

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did you also recovered databases?
Because without it node dont know how much data it has.

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Yes, I did. I really cannot understand what happened. Maybe the majority of the restored data went corrupt somehow? AFAIK I dont even have any tool to verify my data against the other network peers. By the way it would be very useful in such scenarios.

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You would need to start again with a new identity. Whilst it is technically possible that only having 90% of recovered data would mean your node wouldn’t be disqualified any data loss can lead to disqualification.

It has previously been discussed about having a node repair or rebuild process, but the answer (from StorJ contacts) was:

  • it’s not in the best interest of the network as the node has technically lost files, so is unreliable.
  • the cost for repair traffic would be too great for the node operator that it wouldn’t be worth it.
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I’m sad, but okay :frowning:
One more thing: can I use the same ethereum and email address, or should I use a new one?

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Yes, the same wallet and email. Just generate a new identity.

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