Hi,
I'm quite frustrated trying to restore data from a "~/.Private" (encrypted private directory) backup:
I lost all my data due to a file system error. Gladly I have backup of my "~/.Private" directory (contains my data in encrypted form).
To restore it I followed the instruction in the "Recovering Your Data Manually" section of https://help.ubuntu.com/community/En...ivateDirectory, I can mount it without problems, but all the data is unreadable (filenames are ok but opening anything just returns encrypted rubbish), so I suppose I entered the wrong passphrase
Now my problem: There are a couple of passphrase possibilities I'd like to try (passwords I use frequently... I know, that's a bad idea in general), but how do I know when I hit the right one?
Everytime after mounting with "sudo mount -t ecryptfs /home/username/.Private /home/username/Private" I run "ecryptfs-umount-private" to unmount (and thus to be able to mount again using a different passphrase guess) and there's no error message but the data in the "~/Private" directory is still accessible even after unmounting (and contains rubbish, of course).
Is there any other way to try passwords on my encrypted date? (I ONLY have a copy of my old "~/.Private" folder, not of my old "~/.ecryptfs" folder)
I'm quite frustrated trying to restore data from a "~/.Private" (encrypted private directory) backup:
I lost all my data due to a file system error. Gladly I have backup of my "~/.Private" directory (contains my data in encrypted form).
To restore it I followed the instruction in the "Recovering Your Data Manually" section of https://help.ubuntu.com/community/En...ivateDirectory, I can mount it without problems, but all the data is unreadable (filenames are ok but opening anything just returns encrypted rubbish), so I suppose I entered the wrong passphrase
Now my problem: There are a couple of passphrase possibilities I'd like to try (passwords I use frequently... I know, that's a bad idea in general), but how do I know when I hit the right one?
Everytime after mounting with "sudo mount -t ecryptfs /home/username/.Private /home/username/Private" I run "ecryptfs-umount-private" to unmount (and thus to be able to mount again using a different passphrase guess) and there's no error message but the data in the "~/Private" directory is still accessible even after unmounting (and contains rubbish, of course).
Is there any other way to try passwords on my encrypted date? (I ONLY have a copy of my old "~/.Private" folder, not of my old "~/.ecryptfs" folder)
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