Fabiolander Posted July 12, 2020 Posted July 12, 2020 Hi, No luck this morning 2 XFS encrypted disks failed on my array after a storm... May I send these disks to a recovery disk service and decrypt recovered files using my encryption key ? Do yo know how to restore encrypted data on failed drive ? Quote
JorgeB Posted July 13, 2020 Posted July 13, 2020 9 hours ago, Fabiolander said: Do yo know how to restore encrypted data on failed drive ? Encrypted disks can be accessed on any Linux distro with LUKS support, you need to provide the key. Quote
Fabiolander Posted July 13, 2020 Author Posted July 13, 2020 (edited) 13 minutes ago, johnnie.black said: Encrypted disks can be accessed on any Linux distro with LUKS support, you need to provide the key. Thank you ! Now I know I can keep hope to restore my data. Having my two failed drive on my desk, I do not know what to do best I will call the recovery disk service this morning. 1 - The best solution would be to repair one of the 2 disks so I can rebuild the complete Array. but I have doubt this is possible. 2 - They only restore encrypted files then I decrypt them on a Linux distro with LUKS (Process to do it is not crystal clear yet) 3 - They restore and decrypt the files. That mean I sent them the key. Did you already experience such problem ? Edited July 13, 2020 by Fabiolander Quote
JorgeB Posted July 13, 2020 Posted July 13, 2020 No, I don't use encryption, also if you can get a sector by sector copy of one of the failed disks you can rebuild the array (assuming parity was valid). Quote
Energen Posted July 13, 2020 Posted July 13, 2020 Sorry to hear Fabiolander, that's certainly a depressing situation. It's encouraging me, though, to swap one of my data drives as a second parity drive. Quote
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