On Mon, Jun 24, 2024 at 07:36:57AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > Anon Loli said on Sun, 23 Jun 2024 12:19:15 +0000 > > > >Okay, I've enabled the drive now, how do I approach this? > >I want the drive that's receiving the data copy to be encrypted, and > > Encrypted? Man, you're getting too complicated for the situation. > Priorities. Task 1 is to copy over the borked drive to a USB drive so > you have a stable "go back to" point. Task 2 is to have a second drive > to experiment on, safe in the knowledge that you can always restore > from the copy from task 1. Encryption just makes it more likely you'll > bork things again. > > >it'll have to be over ssh, so I'm assuming some combination of DD and > >SCP? > > SSH and SCP? Say what? How bout a USB3 rotating drive? And NOT a > Seagate. > > > > >I've looked on the internet now, and it seems like dump/restore are > >perfect for this (and even faster than dd?) > >So maybe something like > >`dump af /dev/sd3i | ssh receiving-computer "restore xf -"` > >But where would the sd3i end up then and how? would it turn in a file, > >or become a /dev/sd3i copy on the receiving computer? > >If you don't respond, I'll search the internet and try to do it on my > >own (for the 1st time) and possibly overwrite something again lol > > > >Would be great if I could find some great read about this > > > > Personally, I think you're making this much harder than it has to be. > If you care about those old photos, spend the money for enough USB hard > drives, and don't get fancy until you have a copy of your files AND a > backup of the copy of those files. Then you can treat the copy like a > backup and copy them back. > > Seriously, priorities. Prioritize getting those files back, and don't > let anything complicate that task. Don't skip steps. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > > http://444domains.com >
I don't understand what's so complicated about DD, ssh/scp or encryption? I'll have to find my USB adapter, this is going too slow over the network, that being said, I think that I mentioned the source drive being over 200GB in size, so why mention USB sticks? lol Encryption is a must, it's not just family photos, but even if it was, I'm still not putting them on clear disk Now if you can't answer this that's fine, maybe someone else can.. if I they can't then I'll cry Question is: if I write to the raw crypto volume (the decrypted disk), everything should still be encrypted, right? I don't understand exactly how under the hood OpenBSD FDE works, but if I understand correctly, anything written to the crypto volume gets encrypted and what-not, and then stored to the drive encrypted, right? I need to make a filesystem out of the backed-up copy if I understand correctly, will it still work if 74M of it is overwritten? Because then I could maybe DD over the raw(/non-raw?) crypto volume and it should work? Like what use is backing it up now and then making the filesystem on the same drive and fucking up that entire drive?
