Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:06:37 +0100 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-geom@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geli recovery Message-ID: <hj9qhm$o9o$1@ger.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <e0df4dc61001210623q192fc2ecv644dc143ee98ecc7@mail.gmail.com> References: <e0df4dc61001210516n2e22a92dwf2b8662f0e973e5@mail.gmail.com> <e0df4dc61001210623q192fc2ecv644dc143ee98ecc7@mail.gmail.com>
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On 01/21/10 15:23, BSD Life wrote:
> It looks like Windows or maybe the Bios wrote this. This is the
> chipset description of my Windows PC.
> So I think, if geli does not have any metadata backup on disc, data is gone :(
If you created the drive with a recent version of FreeBSD, it might be
possible to restore the data if the drive was not the root drive:
init Initialize provider which needs to be encrypted. Here
you can
set up the cryptographic algorithm to use, key length, etc.
The last provider’s sector is used to store metadata. The
init subcommand also automatically backups metadata in
/var/backups/<prov>.eli file. The metadata can be
recovered
with the restore subcommand described below.
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