June 25, 20251 yr Long story short... I f-ed-up!My Unraid server is a 5yo buddy that has ran without a hickup all this time... (minor stuff, user errors, nothing too bad)Last week, I upgraded to 7 from 6.13 and sh!t hit the fan!My array would not mount, keys were not getting recognized, all sorts of fun stuff... All that to realise that for some reason my config had an entry for keys in /boot and I don't use keys, I use a passphrase... (LUKS+BTRFS)Anyways, after a couple of hours of this, panic started to kick-in, I made stupid mistakes, and I did it... I clicked on "format" on a mounted non-responding drive...Why the hell does that button even exist on the main page in the first place when a drive becomes unmountable? I don't know!All that to say, my parity got updated my drive was borked, I followed wrong guides to save myself and did worst (ended-up deleting LUKS headers on the drive that could have saved my butt!)So yeah... I learned a lot about LUKS and encryption this week, I slept a couple of rare hours, I lost critical data that had not been correctly backed-up because life, kids, no timeTLDR:---SO the question... is there somewhere where Unraid stores backup LUKS headers that could save my butt? I made exact copies of the array at some point using ddrescue and stopped using the Unraid server altogether until I could explore my thin options but the headers were already gone... Testdisk and various forensic scripts have been running for a week on those img files, I am out of ideas...Tell me the truth... I need to know... this data is gone forever? Edited June 25, 20251 yr by Normand_Nadon
June 25, 20251 yr Community Expert 6 hours ago, Normand_Nadon said:is there somewhere where Unraid stores backup LUKS headers that could save my butt?Nope, you would need to have done that yourself.
June 25, 20251 yr Author Well... thanks for your answer!I am not completely giving up yet... I am running low lever hex scans on the drive to try and find remnants... But I mostly made my mind that this data is gone forever!From stuff that I read, there might be backup headers scattered around the drive because it was active for 5 years... But is that legends? Edited June 25, 20251 yr by Normand_Nadon
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