From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qy0-f171.google.com (mail-qy0-f171.google.com [209.85.216.171]) by mail.saout.de (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Sat, 4 Sep 2010 14:11:51 +0200 (CEST) Received: by qyk30 with SMTP id 30so1025373qyk.16 for ; Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:11:50 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2010 08:11:29 -0400 From: machiner Message-ID: <20100904081129.625a599d@lapbox> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/r3IN5ONUt5Dxu89_EiY4hPA"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Subject: [dm-crypt] My sequence of failure List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: dm-crypt@saout.de --Sig_/r3IN5ONUt5Dxu89_EiY4hPA Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, I reinstalled Debian a few weeks ago (dselect). Last night I plugged my ba= ckup drive in that I may resume normal backup procedures. In a fit of stupid, I proba= bly lost my backup data forever. Here is what I did. Upon plugging the USB drive in I was greeted with a small dialog box that i= nformed me that /dev/sdb1 was encrypted and that I needed to input the password. I= did. Then... 1 - # cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdb1 backup 2 - # mkfs.ext3 /dev/mapper/backup 3 - # mount /dev/mapper/backup /mnt/backup Of course when I went to look upon my existing backups the drive was empty.= Of course I overwrote the file system. I did a number of things wrong....Large quantities of alcohol were involved. I tried testdisk with varying failures. Stuff was seen, ish, but it ended = there. P to list files aborted testdisk. Ran it looking for Intel partitions and al= so for 'none'. I see 3 instances of the drive when I run testdisk with no arguments. Disk /dev/sdb - 320 GB / 298 GiB - WDC WD32 00BEVT-60ZCT0 Disk /dev/mapper/backup - 320 GB / 298 GiB Disk /dev/dm-0 - 320 GB / 298 GiB I looked around the mailing list and saw things like headers and salts and = figured I was doomed. But I'm here anyway asking if there's anything I can do to att= empt to retrieve my existing backups. Thanks. --Sig_/r3IN5ONUt5Dxu89_EiY4hPA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkyCN3EACgkQC/2QdnsQrYr/GACfZIKxz2PbmjoO7XD9pmyQ8jaa d90An1BIkPiMBugmO7jJebcxp8pDF4b/ =tUgq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/r3IN5ONUt5Dxu89_EiY4hPA--