How to restore encrypted data on failed drive ?

[Fabiolander]

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 ?

[JorgeB]

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.

[Fabiolander]

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

[JorgeB]

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).

[Energen]

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.