A media storage disk failed, best way to get back to normal?

[bluenote]

Hello folks

So I had a HD go out on me (spins, not detected … probably won’t be recoverable, but I’ve had enough disks come back to live for a few hours connected through a USB SATA interface that I’ll play with it a bit further to see).

Anyways. The real question is, I have a same size spare here, but what’s the sane way of telling sonarr to download everything I HAD on that storage? I don’t think we can assume that stuff I wanted was monitored, because sometimes I turned off monitoring on stuff I was behind on (certain reasonably small percentage of shows though).

My main concern I guess, is I put in a new drive, label it with the same drive letter, pull up sonarr, and it sees that all that stuff is missing, and happily marks it unmonitored as if it’s been deleted, and then I really don’t know where I’m at. In fact, I guess it’s possible that sonarr already marked those shows as unmonitored and files as nonexistent already, so it may be impossible for me to tell from Sonarr what stuff I had because it’s seen that the drive was missing already.

Is there any way I can easily recover from this that doesn’t involve going into trakt, looking at where I’ve watched up to, setting the monitoring and then manually searching?

thanks for any advice

EDIT: I should mention that this is a 2 storage drive setup that sonarr was managing, so there’s some shows that survived, and some that didn’t.

[markus101]

You should turn off Ignore Deleted Episodes before connecting the new drive. That way anything missing won’t automatically be ignored, if it hasn’t already, though Sonarr won’t treat files missing if it can’t find the root folder.

If Something has already detected files were missing, history should have some information on which files were deleted, so you could rebuild it from that.